Goodbye George

I was surprised at the margin of the House vote yesterday that expelled pathological lying fraudster George Santos. Santos is now just the sixth person to be expelled from the House. He was not expelled for lying but for 13 credible criminal charges against him. As one Republican member said, “He is a disgusting human being, and he shouldn’t be here,” which can be said about most Republicans. But the entirety of GOP leadership voted against expulsion (while wanting to impeach President Biden without any evidence of anything). Nevertheless, the two-thirds majority needed to expel the fraudster was achieved with 311 votes with 114 against (there were two cowardly present votes). Two Democrats voted against expelling Santos.

I respect the argument against expulsion because he hasn’t been convicted yet and the fear of setting a precedent (Adam Schiff was removed from all his committees only because Republicans don’t like him), but the Constitution says both chambers are to choose how they conduct themselves. So while Bob Menendez hasn’t been expelled from the Senate, the House decided they couldn’t live any longer with Santos.

What will Santos do next? Some of those possibilities will be in tomorrow’s cartoon for CNN, so be sure to check that out. But in the real world, he’s probably going to prison if he doesn’t flee the country.

Santos was defended by the likes of disgusting Goon Caucus liar Byron Donalds and “suspected” pedophile Matt Gaetz. But the report from the bipartisan Ethics Committee, which is controlled by Republicans, was too damning, which detailed “substantial evidence” of “uncharged and unlawful conduct” including allegedly stealing from his 2022 campaign. There were reports of campaign spending on trips to Atlantic City, swanky department stores, Botox treatments, and a subscription to OnlyFans which is a porn site…so I hear.

The governor of New York now has ten days to set a date for a special election for the vacant seat. The seat is in a Democratic-leaning Queens district that Biden won easily in 2020, but as Santos demonstrated, it’s competitive. If a total piece of shit like Santos can win it then perhaps your run-of-the-mill daily variety piece-of-shit Republican can win it too.

Santos was a failure in his short time in Congress. He only introduced 40 bills with every single one dying in committee without receiving even a single vote. He only convinced one colleague, jackass Paul Gosar, to sign onto one of them which was a bill to defund the Scooby Doo Gang from solving mysteries that would lead to indicting evil mask-wearing billionaires with criminal schemes that they’d normally get away with if it wasn’t for them meddling kids. No, seriously, it was a bill to defund the Chinese Communist Party from hanging out on college campuses. That Scooby Doo shit sounds less ridiculous.

As Santos left the Capitol, even while the expulsion vote was ongoing, he said, “To hell with this place.”

As a reminder of what sort of moron he is, Santos tweeted that he’ll seek revenge and file ethics complaints on Monday against four of the members who voted to expel him…even though he can’t file anything since he’s not a member of Congress anymore…unless he does a George Costanza and shows up for work Monday like nothing happened.

I’m a little heartbroken by Santo’s expulsion because I really enjoyed drawing him. Fortunately, there is no shortage of goons in the Republican Party.

Na-Na-Na-Na!
Hey-Hey-Hey!
Goodbye!

Music note: Of course, I listened to “Kiss Him Goodbye” but just to see how many “heys” were in the line.

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