Trey Gowdy thinks he has been a lousy politician —- What do you think?

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy surprised the political world this week by announcing Wednesday that he wouldn’t seek re-election later this year.

‘My wife hates it when I say this, but I was a pretty good prosecutor, I think. But I’ve been a pretty lousy politician,’ Gowdy said Sunday on Face the Nation.

Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican first elected in 2010, became a national figure as the chairman of the House Benghazi Committee, which probed the deaths of four Americans at a diplomatic compound in 2012, while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state.