The Republicans in the House, enabled by their Democrat “colleagues”, booted freshmen Congressman George Santos out of Congress today. The squeamish GOP members have a death wish, and they hate their constituents, really all Americans. The Democrats gleefully voted to oust Santos and then rubbed their claws together.

At this point I feel the need to stipulate some concepts. George Santos is a liar, a grifter and an imposter, in my humble opinion. Santos is not fit to hold the lowest office in the land, let alone be one of the 435 members who hold the purse strings of our Nation. He is the lowest of the low. In addition to his alleged crimes, he is arrogant and thoroughly unlikeable. That being said this expulsion sets a precedent that will cripple Republicans forever.

You are wondering why, with my stipulations, I am defending his presence in the House of Representative? Many Congresscritters are not known for their stellar ethics. Nancy Pelosi? Jerry Nadler? No one expects high virtues from Congress. The standards for expulsion from the House have been a rather high bar:

Of the previous expulsions in the House, three were for disloyalty to the Union during the Civil War. The remaining two occurred after the lawmakers were convicted of crimes in federal court. Santos made his case for remaining in office by appealing directly to lawmakers who worry they are setting a new precedent that could make expulsions more common.

The last man expelled in the past was Democrat James Traficant from Ohio:

In 2001, Traficant was indicted on federal corruption charges for taking campaign funds for personal use. Again, he opted to represent himself, insisting that the trial was part of a vendetta against him dating back to his 1983 trial. After a two-month federal trial, on April 11, 2002, he was convicted of ten felony counts including bribery, racketeering, and tax evasion.[26] Per longstanding House convention, House Democrats directed him not to cast any votes pending an investigation by the United States House Committee on Ethics.

On July 30, 2002 U.S. District Judge Lesley Wells sentenced Traficant to eight years in prison and fined him $150,000 following his conviction on 10 counts of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion.[27]

Eventually, the House Ethics Committee recommended that Traficant be expelled from Congress. On July 24, the House voted to expel him with 420 members voting yes, 1 member voting no, 9 members voting ‘present’, and 4 members not voting.[28] The sole vote against expulsion was Representative Gary Condit, who at the time was in the midst of a scandal of his own and had been defeated in his reelection primary.[29] Traficant was the first representative to be expelled since Michael Myers in 1980 as a result of the Abscam scandal.

After his expulsion, Traficant ran as an independent candidate for another term in the House while incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Allenwood.[30] He received 28,045 votes, or 15 percent, and became one of only a handful of individuals in the history of the United States to run for a federal office from prison. Tim Ryan, a former aide to Traficant, won the election.

Notice the important point here: Traficant was convicted before he was EXPELLED!

The House voted to expel George Santos from Congress.

Now that our system operates under “guilty until proven innocent,”

should we expel every Congressman that has lied, engaged in insider training, misused congressional funds, & accepted bribes from foreign countries?

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— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) December 1, 2023

The Democrats will use this new precedent against more Republicans, especially the next time Democrats take control of the House. They make shite up. Donald Trump, anyone?

Then, there is Jamaal Bowman who pulled the fire alarm and lied about it:

George Santos is expelled from the House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote because of alleged mendacity. pic.twitter.com/y5nEtjQ15x

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 1, 2023

Who led the charge that saw 105 Republicans vote FOR expulsion? Democrats:

Mr Santos arrived on the House floor initially seeming cheery or at least resigned to his fate. He laughed with archconservatives who would vote against his expulsion such as Rep Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Tim Burchett (R-TN). But shortly after the resolution crossed the necessary threshold to pass, Mr Santos put on his coat and exited the House floor before the final gavel was called.

As they exited the floor and descended the steps of the US Capitol, Rep Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Dan Goldman (D-NY), who led the charge to remove Mr Santos, high-fived each other.

“We should have expelled them nine months ago when we first brought the first course resolution,” Mr Garcia told The Independent earlier this week.

Despite that, Mr Garcia said that the efforts of he, Mr Goldman and Rep Ritchie Torres (D-NY) led to Mr Santos’s ultimate expulsion. The House Ethics Committee report said that a complaint by Mr Goldman and Mr Torres offered the first complaint to the committee requesting an investigation.

“We triggered that,” he said. “Had we not for the initial expulsion, they never would have done the investigation.”

These sick twats are so proud.

My Congresscritter Tim Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna voted against expulsion:

Kangaroo Court and Dangerous Precedent, exactly. In eleven months, Santos would have been convicted and/or out of office.

As awful as George Santo is, and he is really euuw icky, this should have been left to the voters on Long Island. Meanwhile, the list of snakes still in the House includes Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Eric Swalwell and all the members of the Hamas Caucus.

Well done, everyone. You failed us again.

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