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Mitt Romney cares about the United States. He has different ideas about the way she should be governed, but he wants what is best for the country. He believes in things like respect for the office of

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He’s Canadian. He goes to another Congress. You don’t know him. 

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1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

This cumstain is the poster boy for the new GOP and what's wrong with it. 

Fraud, cheat and liar but paraded around for the GOP to show off it’s “diversity”

Yep, sounds about right 

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There is no bottom to the lack of quality politicians there are REPRESENTING Republican voters. And even more terrifying, the Republican party as a whole does nto give a shit.  As they can simply pretend whatever they need to pretend to justify the need for the GOP to have a majority.

Which do you think is more likely regarding the Republican party officials? A) There was no research done at all, and there are simply no quality control on candidates in the GOP. B) The GOP establishment knew what a scumbag this guy was, but decided that nothing matters but a potential GOP vote. 

I will say that the Dems really dropped the ball in NY, and this is part of the problem.  The only folks that give a shit about the quality of their candidates is the Democratic party. Hell it is almost laughable to look back and see The Democratic Party push Sen. Al Franken out of office, because for Dems principles matter! For Republicans? Fuck you have to be kidding, even asking the question.

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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has declined to call on Santos to resign, and said the freshman lawmaker would sit on committees.

“I try to stick by the Constitution. The voters elected him to serve. If there is a concern, and he has to go through the Ethics, let him move through that,” McCarthy told reporters last week, referring to the House Ethics Committee.

This caught my eye. IF THERE IS A CONCERN. Yeah Kevin, there just might be. 

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44 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

But they gutted the ethics committee so that’s convenient

Not surprisingly, one of the first things Trump went after when he got to the White House were the ethics rules Obama had in place, weakening them so special interests could gain influence over or control of government agencies.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-lobbying-ban-weakens-obama-ethics-rules-234318

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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

That, of all the things that have come out (no pun intended), is what might sink him with the GOP. 

It probably won't, only because McCarthy needs his support. But if they had a larger majority (or McCarthy had more universal GOP support), yeah it'd definitely sink him. 

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The Costuming of George Santos

There is a scene at the beginning of “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” the 1999 film adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith book, in which Tom Ripley, the young man who becomes one of fiction’s greatest fakers, borrows a Princeton jacket from a friend to sit in for the piano player at a ritzy garden party. From that assumed finery, an entire novel’s worth of cons are born.

https://news.yahoo.com/costuming-george-santos-192752224.html

 

Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) walks quickly to avoid questions from the press, as the vote for House speaker continued for a fourth day, at the Capitol in Washington on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

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49 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

This is the most egregious of them all IMO. That's straight to hell conduct. I mean, seriously, you can't have a soul if you do stuff like that. 

His party actively votes against things like healthcare for veterans

They support this. 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/18/santos-mother-sept-11/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

 

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Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has said his mother was inside one of the World Trade Center towers when they were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, but immigration records indicate that Santos’s mother wasn’t in the United States on that day.

The congressman’s mother, Fatima Devolder, applied for a visa to enter the United States from her home country of Brazil in February 2003, and on that application she stated that she had not been in the United States since 1999.

But Santos’s campaign website tells a different story: “George’s mother was in her office in the South Tower on Sept. 11, 2001, when the horrific events of that day unfolded.”

 

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The site goes on to say that “She survived the tragic events on September 11th, but she passed away a few years later when she lost her battle to cancer.”

The Washington Post previously reported that Santos’s mother died in December 2016, after which her son solicited donations to pay for her funeral.

 

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The visa documents were obtained by Alex Calzareth, a certified public accountant with an interest in genealogy and research, through a Freedom of Information Act request. Calzareth shared the documents with The Post and other news outlets.

A spokesperson for Santos did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the discrepancy, which was first reported by the Forward.

Since Santos’s election to the House in November, reporting has refuted much of the personal and professional history the New York Republican presented to the public.

 

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Santos admitted to lying about his education and work history, but questions remain about the source of his wealth, which he used to help fund his campaign. Earlier this month, a complaint was filed by a nonpartisan group to the Federal Election Commission about Santos’s campaign financing.

The Post also reported that Santos claimed the cousin of a Russian oligarch as a client.

Democrats and Republicans have called for Santos’s resignation. He has resisted those calls, as has House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who said Santos was legally elected and seated without objection. House Republicans assigned Santos to two House committees Tuesday.

Asked whether the White House thinks Santos should resign, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday that it “is up to the Republican conference to show what they think they owe the American people. It is their decision to make on what it means, what they see as it relates to the terms of standards and service.”

Jean-Pierre added that it was clear the GOP has no plans to act as the party has given Santos committee assignments.

 

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We should just call him what he is: Russian Operative.

That's where all roads lead.  We will learn that the ease with which he lies is what made him attractive to the Russians in the first place; secondly how that the publicly exposed lies make his position weak and more easily controllable.

This seems like comedy hour right now but I assume Russia's intent is corrosive just as their election interference was meant to be.  The GQP is only happy to be complicit to own us libs.  There's an arm of the GQP that is just an international unit of the KGB, unwittingly, because they are just too stupid or uninterested to know otherwise.

This story is going to get worse.

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this story really is incredible.

i mean, you couldn't make up a story about a person who spent years lying about themselves in public, grotesquely trying to grift in any way possible by lying about the stupidest things, like, oh, being in emergency management or making a lingerie football team, who has done questionable sexual stuff online including cosplay, webcams, posting supposed private messages between her and a very public local figure, then posting nudes of herself after soliciting advice on whether or not to get boob implants, and then got elected to a very public office?

i mean, that would be some crazy bullshit, right?

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Peter King has some thoughts.  

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/opinion/george-santos-house-committees.html

 

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In the latest twist in the surreal saga of George Santos, this mystery man congressman has been named to seats on the House committees for small business and for science. As a former chairman of a House committee, I can envision the scene. Seating location is determined by seniority. As a new member, Mr. Santos will be seated on the distant end of the dais, which in a normal situation means zero attention from fellow members and minimal media coverage. But in Mr. Santos’s case, every time he speaks, every time he asks a question, the media spotlight will be on him — putting shame on him and unwanted glare on the committee and the Republicans who put him there. How do committee witnesses take his questions seriously? How do committee members sit still for this guy in their midst?

 

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For a member of Congress to be effective, be it through legislation or committee work or deal-making or favor-trading or helping out a constituent, you have to have relationships. It’s very hard to get anything done alone. Meaningful achievement begins with some measure of cooperation with colleagues based on friendship, ideology, party affiliation, shared interests, previous collaboration or some combinations thereof. And almost always, mutual trust is a bedrock part of those relationships.

 

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Having served in Congress for 28 years, I cannot imagine how Mr. Santos possibly thinks he can be effective as a member of the House, if he thinks about it at all. In modern politics, I can’t recall another freshman lawmaker who took office so completely lacking the trust and respect of his colleagues. Except perhaps for a few ineffective congressional outliers, I can’t imagine a member of either party working or cooperating with Mr. Santos. And when you don’t have that, you’re just faking your way through the workday — something Mr. Santos is apparently pretty good at.

 

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What’s it like to be shamed and shunned as a member of Congress, to be a walking outcast among your peers? We have so few examples — Mr. Santos takes us into new territory. New members of Congress get to know one another by sharing stories about where they come from and where they went to school and exploring areas of common interest; Mr. Santos apparently made almost all of this up. New members meet with senior members who can show them the ropes, help them get some early legislative wins; what senior members will want to work with this guy?

Typical House members have 100 things coming at them at any one time — calls to make and return, constituent services to prioritize and deliver, good news and bad news to deliver to your district, decisions decisions decisions. Your ability to do all of this often depends on getting people on the phone or into a meeting to get the answers or results you need. Who will pick up the phone when George Santos is calling or take him seriously when they do?

Not everyone elected to Congress is a candidate for sainthood or paragon of virtue, of course, but usually when a member is being investigated or under a cloud of suspicion, there is a history of experience to work from. When Representative Charles Rangel of New York was under investigation for months by the Ethics Committee in 2010, he continued to work effectively with many of us all that time. He acquired a reputation during his previous 40 years in Congress for keeping his word, and he had an experienced staff that worked with colleagues’ staffs to serve the district well. Representative Rangel may have faced a harsh media spotlight and was not his usual outgoing self, but he didn’t go into hiding, and he wasn’t shunned. Even many people who voted ultimately to censure him considered his offenses malum prohibitum not malum in se. (I was one of only two Republicans to vote against his censure.)

Other members, engulfed in far more serious scandals, resigned relatively swiftly: Representative Mark Foley of Florida was gone in less than 48 hours after reports of his sending sexually suggestive messages to teenage boys who had served as congressional pages. Representative Anthony Weiner of New York resigned three weeks after his sexting scandal broke in 2011. Both men seemed to see the writing on the wall: Against the backdrop of investigations into possible criminal wrongdoing and the sordid nature of the allegations against them, they knew they could no longer be effective. I do not know Mr. Santos, but it is hard to see him as anything other than delusional if he thinks he can function or that there is a result of his continued service beyond deepening his own shame.

When you have no colleagues or friends on Capitol Hill who trust you, you get walled in pretty quickly, and it’s the voters who suffer. During the weeks when he was under siege and then after his resignation, Representative Weiner did have able staff in his Washington and district offices who were able to keep serving his constituents during and after the scandal broke. That is hard to envision with Mr. Santos, given that his staff is relatively inexperienced on Capitol Hill and most people will have a hard time believing his office will live up to its word when the congressman is a fraud. Already some local and county officials from the Third Congressional District have said that because of lack of trust, they will not work with Mr. Santos or his office. This is a prescription for disaster.

There is also a potential political disaster looming for House Republicans, who run a real risk of losing their House majority because of this albatross called Santos. Republicans may not have won the House without New York unexpectedly picking up four seats in 2022. Those four and at least four other seats, however, could well be in serious jeopardy in 2024 if congressional Republicans continue to stand by Mr. Santos.


The newly elected Republican members from New York have called for Mr. Santos to resign. Republican congressional leaders must make it clear they also want him gone and quickly call for a full and complete investigation by the Ethics Committee, which has the authority to recommend expulsion. Failure to do what’s morally and politically right could cause voters across New York to punish Republican officeholders in a presidential election year because the G.O.P. did not find a way to dump Mr. Santos.

The truth is that Mr. Santos is hurting the House that many of us love and dragging down the Republican caucus to a shameful place. He does not belong there, but there is no indication that he will consider resignation. The more bizarre the revelations, the more he digs in. Expulsion would require a two-thirds vote by the House following an Ethics Committee hearing and findings or a criminal indictment and conviction. In any case, that would be months away. As long as Mr. Santos remains in Congress, he is dead man walking and will be unable to get anything done for his constituents. For at least this one moment in his life, it is time for Mr. Santos to face reality, do the honorable thing and resign the seat in Congress.

 

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29 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

this story really is incredible.

i mean, you couldn't make up a story about a person who spent years lying about themselves in public, grotesquely trying to grift in any way possible by lying about the stupidest things, like, oh, being in emergency management or making a lingerie football team, who has done questionable sexual stuff online including cosplay, webcams, posting supposed private messages between her and a very public local figure, then posting nudes of herself after soliciting advice on whether or not to get boob implants, and then got elected to a very public office?

i mean, that would be some crazy bullshit, right?

What’s really crazy was that for a lot of the thirsty flock around here, none of that was a deal breaker.

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Peter King has some thoughts.  

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/opinion/george-santos-house-committees.html

 

 

 

 

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What’s it like to be shamed and shunned as a member of Congress, to be a walking outcast among your peers? We have so few examples — Mr. Santos takes us into new territory. New members of Congress get to know one another by sharing stories about where they come from and where they went to school and exploring areas of common interest; Mr. Santos apparently made almost all of this up. New members meet with senior members who can show them the ropes, help them get some early legislative wins; what senior members will want to work with this guy?

Typical House members have 100 things coming at them at any one time — calls to make and return, constituent services to prioritize and deliver, good news and bad news to deliver to your district, decisions decisions decisions. Your ability to do all of this often depends on getting people on the phone or into a meeting to get the answers or results you need. Who will pick up the phone when George Santos is calling or take him seriously when they do?

Not everyone elected to Congress is a candidate for sainthood or paragon of virtue, of course, but usually when a member is being investigated or under a cloud of suspicion, there is a history of experience to work from. When Representative Charles Rangel of New York was under investigation for months by the Ethics Committee in 2010, he continued to work effectively with many of us all that time. He acquired a reputation during his previous 40 years in Congress for keeping his word, and he had an experienced staff that worked with colleagues’ staffs to serve the district well. Representative Rangel may have faced a harsh media spotlight and was not his usual outgoing self, but he didn’t go into hiding, and he wasn’t shunned. Even many people who voted ultimately to censure him considered his offenses malum prohibitum not malum in se. (I was one of only two Republicans to vote against his censure.)

Other members, engulfed in far more serious scandals, resigned relatively swiftly: Representative Mark Foley of Florida was gone in less than 48 hours after reports of his sending sexually suggestive messages to teenage boys who had served as congressional pages. Representative Anthony Weiner of New York resigned three weeks after his sexting scandal broke in 2011. Both men seemed to see the writing on the wall: Against the backdrop of investigations into possible criminal wrongdoing and the sordid nature of the allegations against them, they knew they could no longer be effective. I do not know Mr. Santos, but it is hard to see him as anything other than delusional if he thinks he can function or that there is a result of his continued service beyond deepening his own shame.

When you have no colleagues or friends on Capitol Hill who trust you, you get walled in pretty quickly, and it’s the voters who suffer. During the weeks when he was under siege and then after his resignation, Representative Weiner did have able staff in his Washington and district offices who were able to keep serving his constituents during and after the scandal broke. That is hard to envision with Mr. Santos, given that his staff is relatively inexperienced on Capitol Hill and most people will have a hard time believing his office will live up to its word when the congressman is a fraud. Already some local and county officials from the Third Congressional District have said that because of lack of trust, they will not work with Mr. Santos or his office. This is a prescription for disaster.

There is also a potential political disaster looming for House Republicans, who run a real risk of losing their House majority because of this albatross called Santos. Republicans may not have won the House without New York unexpectedly picking up four seats in 2022. Those four and at least four other seats, however, could well be in serious jeopardy in 2024 if congressional Republicans continue to stand by Mr. Santos.


The newly elected Republican members from New York have called for Mr. Santos to resign. Republican congressional leaders must make it clear they also want him gone and quickly call for a full and complete investigation by the Ethics Committee, which has the authority to recommend expulsion. Failure to do what’s morally and politically right could cause voters across New York to punish Republican officeholders in a presidential election year because the G.O.P. did not find a way to dump Mr. Santos.

The truth is that Mr. Santos is hurting the House that many of us love and dragging down the Republican caucus to a shameful place. He does not belong there, but there is no indication that he will consider resignation. The more bizarre the revelations, the more he digs in. Expulsion would require a two-thirds vote by the House following an Ethics Committee hearing and findings or a criminal indictment and conviction. In any case, that would be months away. As long as Mr. Santos remains in Congress, he is dead man walking and will be unable to get anything done for his constituents. For at least this one moment in his life, it is time for Mr. Santos to face reality, do the honorable thing and resign the seat in Congress.

 

King, as reminder to all is a Republican, mentions how Santos could end up costing the GOP more than just this seat in the long run. NY voters might punish the whole party in 2024 if Santos stays around, even not running in 2024.

For Santos, you can't shame the shameless. He doesn't care, and frankly this is probably the best paying gig he can get.

Normally parties have senior leadership that inform their members when they need to resign. But when a party's only value has shifted to winning, there is no one to tell that to Santos. In a sense, he's fully living up to the GOP value here.  Reap what you sow.

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King, as reminder to all is a Republican, mentions how Santos could end up costing the GOP more than just this seat in the long run. NY voters might punish the whole party in 2024 if Santos stays around, even not running in 2024.

For Santos, you can't shame the shameless. He doesn't care, and frankly this is probably the best paying gig he can get.

Normally parties have senior leadership that inform their members when they need to resign. But when a party's only value has shifted to winning, there is no one to tell that to Santos. In a sense, he's fully living up to the GOP value here.  Reap what you sow.

He’ crazy.

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1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:

this story really is incredible.

i mean, you couldn't make up a story about a person who spent years lying about themselves in public, grotesquely trying to grift in any way possible by lying about the stupidest things, like, oh, being in emergency management or making a lingerie football team, who has done questionable sexual stuff online including cosplay, webcams, posting supposed private messages between her and a very public local figure, then posting nudes of herself after soliciting advice on whether or not to get boob implants, and then got elected to a very public office?

i mean, that would be some crazy bullshit, right?

The more I hear of his random, almost stream-of-consciousness lying, the more he reminds me of this ...  

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It's going to be the perfect ending when we find out he's Keyser Söze.

 

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