Ready... Set... Wonder!
said the newly elected congressman needed to immediately resign, saying he ran a campaign of “deceit and lies.”
And while Santos threw a defiant "na-na-na-boo-boo" to the party bosses back home, he seems to be quite comfortable with the party bosses in DC. According to Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), Santos "addressed some of the concerns that we've had." Does anyone wonder if that went any further than "do you solemnly swear to go along with us, so help you whoever you believe in?"
Santos-endorser Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Humiliationville), whose top aide was impersonated by a Santos campaign worker, doesn't appear to have concerns about him sitting in the House chamber, but committees are another issue.
...McCarthy said Wednesday that embattled freshman GOP Rep. George Santos, who is facing growing calls to resign after admitting to fabricating much of his personal biography, should not be seated on any top committees.
Why, you might be wondering? Well, some think Santos is a national security risk, mostly because of his shady finances. There's chance he might not get any committee assignments; if that's the case, there will be no wondering needed as to why they're keeping him around: 218 votes are way more better than 217.
Now, I can't help wondering if the reason he's adamant about not resigning is that he feels a responsibility to his former co-workers at Goldman Sachs who may be laid off? The company's letting as many as 3200 people go.
The cuts, totaling about 6.5 percent of Goldman’s workforce, stem from a restructuring plan the investment bank announced in October and the reintroduction of a ritual year-end culling of underperformers that was suspended amid the pandemic, the person said.
I wonder how many of them Santos could help develop kick-ass resumes, find great jobs, start their own companies, or even - dare I say it - run for office?
I'm investigating wondering if it would be worth wondering if the new House Committee on Investigating the Investigating Bastages that are Investigating Members of the Committee on Investigating the Investigating Bastages that are Investigating Members of the Committee on Investigating the Investigating Bastages that are Investigating Members of the Committee on Investigating - oh, never mind...
If you're wondering whether the Biden document thing (and the late-breaking new Biden document thing) is the same as the Trump document thing, I'm comfortable saying that the issue - classified documents not being turned over to the National Archives as required - appears to be the same, but much of the rest of it doesn't. And unless and until we have evidence of Biden
- ripping up documents and trying to flush them down the toilet,
- or burning them in the fireplace,
- or eating them with ketchup,
- or declassifying them by thinking about them,
- and ignoring a months-long effort to get documents turned over before he left the VP's office,
- and saying repeatedly that he had turned all of the documents he had over already, dammit, leave me the hell alone,
- and after documents were found he argued about giving them back,
- and that he had his lawyers attest that all the classified documents had been turned over,
- and that the National Archives identified that documents were still missing,
- and asked to come and get them and he let them into his house but still didn't turn everything over,
- and that he ignored a subpoena requiring him to turn them over,
- and then his office was raided,
- and we still don't know if everything was turned over,
- and then he buried a relative on the front lawn at his summer home
- and then he claimed attorney-client privilege, executive privilege, and locker room privilege over the documents,
- and demanded a special master be appointed to review the documents,
- and had a court limit the review by the special master,
- and had a court throw out the special master,
- and then, hoping to forestall any further investigation, he declared himself a candidate for president conveniently just before a special prosecutor was appointed, then nope, it's not the same.
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