No one spoke so magnificently in favor of the House Oversight Committee resolution that contempt charges be brought against former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner Thursday than Trey Gowdy, Republican from South Carolina.
Gowdy had no doubt but that Lerner had given up her Fifth Amendment protections against self incrimination at her last committee appearance when she made 17 separate factual declarations.
As always, the former prosecuting attorney’s performance was spot-on. The Twitterverse lit up with those who saw it all play out on C-SPAN, and the team from Twitchy recorded every glorious tweet.
Here’s Gowdy in action.
Lots of people liked to quote Gowdy, just because he was so damn quotable:
“Seventeen separate factual assertions.. that’s an awful lot of talkin for someone who wants to remain silent.” Get em @TGowdySC!
— schlute (@coolhandschlute) April 10, 2014
Gowdy: Can you imagine if someone said “I didn’t rob the bank but I can’t tell you why I’m on the surveillance camera.” #IRS
— Lauren Luxenburg (@LaurenC_Lux) April 10, 2014
Townhall’s Katie Pavlich quoted Gowdy often — here are two:
Gowdy on questions he wants to ask Lerner based on email evidence: Who thinks the tea party is dangerous? You? Who? #IRS
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 10, 2014
Gowdy: The same constitution that gives Lerner the right to remain silent, gives these groups the same right demand redress from their govt
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 10, 2014
And then came the assessments:
Trey Gowdy doing what he does best.
— Noah Wehrman (@NoahWehrman) April 10, 2014
Gowdy may be the best Rep I’ve ever seen at questioning a Congressional witness.
— Matthew (@Matthops82) April 10, 2014
Trey Gowdy is pretty freaking awesome.
— Lauren Luxenburg (@LaurenC_Lux) April 10, 2014
Why don’t Republicans yield their time to @TGowdySC so we can hear him speak more than 5 minutes?? Brought BOOM to the ROOM!!
— Carolina Girl (@carolinagirl63) April 10, 2014
From here, the contempt resolution moves to the full House, where it already has the support of the Republican leadership.
Read more tweets at Twitchy, and if you haven’t already, be sure to check out “Teacher’s unexpected response to student’s profanity-laced letter is priceless.”
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