Just one day after the House GOP decided George Santos was deserving of a committee seat, new notes were added to his ever-growing list of lies. (via MaddowBlog)
Voters elected Santos, and it’s not up to House members to reject the will of the electorate in New York’s 3rd Congressional District.The Ethics Committee can handle this.
At face value, these arguments are underwhelming, but they’re not necessarily absurd. Indeed, there are no explicit factual errors in any of these claims: Voters who didn’t know they were being deceived really did elect this fabulist to Congress; Santos hasn’t been indicted; and he’ll eventually face some kind of Ethics Committee scrutiny.
And so, four years later, when Republicans retook the House majority, GOP leaders went out of their way to make clear that they wouldn’t allow a replay. The new Republican majority, House GOP leaders said, would constitute a “zero-tolerance policy” for members caught up in embarrassing controversies that reflected poorly on the party.
For a while, they even seemed to mean it. In 2010, then-Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., acknowledged that he’d had an affair with a congressional staffer. GOP leaders urged him to resign,
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