https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trey-gowdys-curious-case-of-late-onset-honesty/2018/05/30/b0cc838e-6440-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ffd7dd8d739e

The South Carolina Republican, who roared into Congress in the tea-party election of 2010, has been one of the most partisan, vitriolic and conspiracy-minded legislators in his eight years here. As recently as January, he was demanding answers about a bogus “secret society” within the FBI and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe.

But since then, Gowdy has contracted a case of late-onset honesty.

On “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday, Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, dismissed the notion, propagated by President Trump, that the FBI had a “spy” in the Trump campaign. He said the FBI did what it “should have done” and that informants such as the one used by the FBI are used “all day, every day by law enforcement.”

Gowdy told Fox News on Tuesday that, after a classified briefing on the subject, “I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do.”

“We now live in a kind of alternate universe when individual Republicans get massive praise just for acknowledging the obvious and restating basic facts,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.

Gowdy, you will recall, is the guy who led the partisan grilling of Hillary Clinton on Benghazi, which turned up no smoking guns and only left us with the warm and fuzzy memory of Ms Clinton bitch-slapping Supreme Inquisitor Pompeo into submission right in front of God and everybody.

Gowdy now joins a growing list of Republican lickspittles who have suddenly found their manhood and failed to rubber-stamp their leader’s inane ramblings. But before we celebrate too much, we should remember that these isolated profiles in Conservative courage only seem to be manifesting themselves in individuals who are retiring, or dying. The rest of the gang on the right appears to be either noisily abetting (or worse, simply looking the other way) at Trump’s outbursts.

There is one thing worse than a fascist. At least, a sincere fascist acts on his own twisted sense of right and wrong. But those who do not fully subscribe to evil but continue to support it for personal gain, or to curry favor with those who do, or out of a pathological hatred of the opposition, are worse than contemptible. They change their tune in order to salvage the shreds of their reputation when they abandon their principles on their way out the door.

Hypocrisy and opportunism has always been a part of politics, and it normally is a bipartisan complaint, and at least openly disparaged by both sides. But this cynicism now seems to be the accepted and preferred mode of one of our political parties. The one in power.
That’s right, you’ll get no wimpy liberal equivalence from me, Bucko. This new politics of insult and incivility may have existed in our history, but in my lifetime at least it can be be primarily traced to the Republicans and the Conservatives.

Bur it is appears inevitable it will eventually spread to the Left, as well. Its the only way to deal with these troglodytes. You can’t reason with these peckerheads, they don’t believe in reason, they are the party of Faith, with a capital “F”. Ask them if you won’t take my word for it.

What is happening to our country?