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Trey Gowdy’s ‘Boehner Goes to Heaven’ Joke

Gowdy will head the House probe into the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Gowdy will head the House probe into the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By David Eldridge
Posted June 23, 2014 at 11:40am

Currently catching fire on the Internet: a YouTube video of Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., cracking up an audience of Maryland Republicans last week with a joke about Speaker John A. Boehner, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Maryland Rep. Andy Harris dying and going to heaven.  

www.youtube.com/watch?v=505kmLgROr8

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