Honestly, I didn’t realize how soon the IA primary caucuses begin. January 15.
That lines up with my expectations they remove him a couple months before election season. Just is sooner than I expected. The primary will muddy up all political discourse and Santos will be a historical footnote.
My gut’s telling me this is an easy vote for expulsion but I’ll be curious how many hardliners will cling to “Party over Country”.
You mean, “Lib Tears over The Obvious Right Thing To Do and Besides He Makes Us All Look Bad”?
He is really getting desperate at this point.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/25/george-santos-congress-expulsion
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/25/santos-lashes-out-expulsion-vote
- Santos said Congress is “felons galore” and filled with “people with all sorts of shiesty backgrounds.” * He called his colleagues “a bunch of hypocrites,” accusing them of extramarital affairs, getting drunk with lobbyists and then missing votes due to hangovers, and handing out voting cards like “candy” to allow others to vote on their behalf.
Finally he tells a truth!!
Feel free to drop names of those folks on your way out. TIA.
Voting again now
And he’s outta here!
Final Score:
316 Yea
114 Nay
2 Present
Source? Believe you but can’t find one for the result. Edit: Nevermind, NYT saying unless Democrats save him he will be out. Edit2: Oh Lord thanks this is going to be fun watching
Live stream of the voting
Strong “you know what? I didn’t want to be in your stupid club anyway” vibes there.
Not sure which is more surprising: that 2 Ds [Williams (GA) and Scott (VA)] voted “no” on expulsion, or that 105 Rs voted “yes” on it. My local Congressrat voted “yes” which truly shocks me, because typically he just goes whichever way leadership wants (and Johnson had said he’d vote “no” on it). The two rats back in my old stomping grounds predictably voted no. I don’t see any real surprises otherwise, save maybe Buck (CO) who voted yes.
Wow, my R rep is very MAGA and voted him out. Guess Santos somehow found the shame threshold for Trumpers. Yet something tells me there’s a decent shot if he was straight and not a drag queen he’d still be here.
All four Kansas reps (three R, one D) voted yes. I figured at least one would vote no, reasonably proud of my state today.
Probably.
Lying and grift are expected and encouraged. Even sedition is not a disqualifier these days.
Guessing that everyone who voted “no” didn’t want to be branded as a hypocrite.
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As well.
From Reddit: only five people have ever been expelled from congress, and George Santos is nine of them.
I heard that his mother, who died in the 9/11 attack was (crushed) distraught.
Fox Opinion:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kicking-santos-gop-reminds-americans-consequences-doing-wrong-sometimes
Uh, yeah.
At least Republicans in the House are capable of holding one of their own to account.
Let’s take a count again of GOP votes in favor of expulsion, from Yahoo:
One hundred and five Republicans voted to boot Santos, and 112 voted for him to remain.
So, less than a majority of GOP members voted to expel him. Yes, the GOP comes and saves the day, another win for proper American values!
Fun fact: more Democrats voted to expel him in the name of those same values.
The rest of the screed is about libs and why they deserve to cry, how purely awful they are:
But Menendez!
But Weingarten (teachers union boss)!
But, but, everywhere else! Please ignore the right thing that happened thanks to the Democrats and some soon-to-be-primaried GOP members!
Newspapers! (But not this editorial, which is all fact!!)
Schools!
Southern border!
Crime
(All subjects brought forth by DeSantis, coincidence I’m sure, not taking any GOP list and repeating it ad nauseum.)
We have no shared set of facts to put confidence in. Anything we disagree with can be dismissed by assuming it is misleading or offered in bad faith.
Well, I can agree with that. If this author could stick to the facts, the country would be better off.
Then:
These days any PR flack worth 50 cents can make stealing some words back in law school or puffing a joint at a party in the ’70s go away faster than a Ferrari zipping over a speed bump.
Uh, I don’t think this person knows what happens when a Ferrari goes over a speed bump at a high velocity. Most drivers would slow to a crawl in their Ferrari over a speed bump, but I digress…
And, how about we imagine the worst of someone we don’t like?
Maybe in the America of 1987, Biden’s plagiarism was a red flag – if he was capable of that, might he have been capable of other dishonest acts, such as, I don’t know, say, influence peddling?
But Trump!
Remind me not to read Fox News opinions anymore.
More accurate to say “At least some of the Republicans eventually changed their mind and joined Democrats in holding their own to account.”
I can’t decide if it signals who the more hardcore MAGAs are (I think I’m leaning toward that), who the left-center Republicans might be (perhaps, but looking at a handful of the ‘no’ votes I’m thinking that’s not the case), or who’s in the squishy, spineless group that will go whatever way they think the party wants them to go (not sure there’s enough evidence to conclude that here).