Fabulist George Santos seems resigned to the fact that following the release of the scathing report by the House ethics committee on his behavior, that he may be expelled from the House of Representatives even before he is convicted of any charges and before the expiration of his current term. But he seems determined to not go quietly into the night, as can be seen from his recent statement.
Santos said that members calling for his expulsion are basically throwing rocks in a glass house because of the baggage they carry as well, and if he is expelled from Congress, then he would expect that precedent to lead to other expulsions as well.
“Within the ranks of the United States Congress, there’s felons galore, there’s people with all sorts of sheisty backgrounds, and all of a sudden, George Santos is the Mary Magdalene of the United States Congress,” he said. “I don’t want to work with a bunch of hypocrites. It’s gross. I have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyists that they’re going to screw and pretend like none of us know what’s going on and sell off the American people.”
“Not show up to vote because they’re too hungover or whatever the reason is, or not show up to vote at all and just give their card out like f***ing candy for someone else to vote for them. This s**t happens every single week. Where are the ethics investigations?” he continued.
…Santos made clear in the space that he will not resign and that he wants to see the House “set this precedent” and expel him from Congress based solely on the ethics report, saying that he will “stand for expulsion” to make the House take a vote on it.
“Start the new precedent that the moment anybody is accused of anything, I expect everybody to start being expelled. And that means there’s a s**t ton of members that should be getting expelled following my expulsion,” Santos said.
…Santos said he expected to be expelled from Congress because he “can do math” and count the votes.
“I know I’m going to get expelled when this expulsion resolution goes to the floor,” he said.
Maybe the only good thing that may out out of Santos’s brief tenure as a member of congress is if he exposes the seedy underbelly of the body. Of course, since his own credibility is close to zero, any targets of his criticism can simply dismiss his charges as yet more lies.
Yes, I was speeding, Officer; but that other guy was too.
(I was raised to think that accepting the consequences of my own behavior was part of growing up. Too bad we don’t have more grownups in Congress.)
Santos said that members calling for his expulsion are basically throwing rocks in a glass house because of the baggage they carry as well…
Well, that’s one true thing he’s said in all the time he’s been there.
“Within the ranks of the United States Congress, there’s felons galore, there’s people with all sorts of sheisty backgrounds…”
Did he really not know this earlier? Like, before he even got elected? We’ve known this for YEARS. Nice to know he’s trying to keep up…
Immediate resignation seems to be the only appropriate action.
prl, um, if he doesn’t work at all, he shan’t be working with anyone.
(Gotta be able to read between the lines)
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In passing, I recall the salacious but brief splash Madison Cawthorn made, but note the difference: in each case, the claimant lacks credibility, but otherwise the claim made is on the other end of the scale of plausibility.
[Um, perhaps unclear to some. One can both not resign and also not work]
The one time his scumbag colleagues and their supporters won’t listen to him is the one time he tells the truth.
Well I’ll be buggered, I actually agree with him on that. Make them make it official and then please start throwing those bombs.
I’d be far more in favour of that if I didn’t think that the results would be rather lopsided, between the previous multiple baseless accusations against Democrats (because the Republicans are insisting that the charges against them are political rather than legal, so that give them licence to retaliate) and the way that most of the current crop of Republicans seem to have very little in the way of shame anyway…
One of the bigger problems with the current ‘Party Of Grievance’ is that fixing that sort of an issue is often a generational issue. It took two or three generations of active work to build it up to this level of disconnection from reality, after all. You have to go back to the founding of Conservative Talk Radio which started because some of Nixon’s backers felt the problem wasn’t that Nixon had committed crimes, the problem was that the press reported them as crimes, and if they just could create an alternative news reality, they could avoid their favoured candidate being forced to resign again…