A group of House Republicans from New York are introducing a resolution to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress.
“Today, I’ll be introducing an expulsion resolution to rid the People’s House of fraudster George Santos,” Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., said in a post on the social media platform X.
He said the resolution will be co-sponsored by fellow New York House Republicans Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, Marc Molinaro, Nick Langworthy and Brandon Williams.
Booting Santos would require a two-thirds vote of the entire House.
The move comes a day after federal prosecutors issued Santos a 23-count superseding indictment alleging he committed identity theft, fraud and other offenses. Santos has said he plans on fighting the charges and pleaded not guilty to the charges in the original 13-count indictment earlier this year.
Imagine being such a piece of shit that even the Republicans don’t want to associate with you.
It’s because he fucked with their money…
He made up like 500k in donations so that the Republican party would “match” and they gave him 250k.
So now the other Republicans who could have gotten that money are pissed
Also, they’re idiots for just taking his word for it.
The schadenfreude … by the gods it’s delightful.
Muh bribery is unsecure!1
Should’ve used the blockchain or something!!11!one!!1
Winner winner chicken dinner. They don’t give a fuck about all the bigots and rapists in office, it’s sticking your hand in the cookie jar that’s the real sin.
It took a 23-count indictment to make it happen, however.
You have to break 50 indictments to be considered presidential
You have to break 50 indictments to be considered
presidentialcrownableFTFY
Don’t think there’s a word for the appointment of a dictator.
Don’t think there’s a word for the appointment of a dictator.
A “Coup” i guess.
It wasn’t so much the 23 counts as it was the fact that he basically stole money from the Republican party. Theft of (Republican) money is
!
I don’t really get it. Santos is the most Republican to have every Republicaned. He’s a lying, grifting, fraudster who knows practically nothing about anything and only got where he was by lying his way in and betraying the trust of everyone who backed him. He’s so unhinged he doesn’t even know where his lies stopped.
He’s like the American conservative mascot. I’m surprised they don’t name him Speaker.
You don’t steal from the rich
It’s the oldest rule from the oldest thieves’ guilds from before there were cities: It’s OK to take a little from Jimmy’s cut, maybe OK to take a little off what you were gonna give to your mother, but you never. NEVER. take anything from the capo. The boss.
It’s all a stunt. These republicans are just saving their own skin, fully knowing that vast majority of their own party won’t expel this asshat.
He’s not popular and doesn’t bring in any money.
Plot twist: the Republicans will now fail to elect a speaker so the resolution will never be read.
Yeah, they’ve given George Santos a perverse incentive to vote against any viable speaker candidate to prevent this measure from coming to the floor. Or he could make his vote contingent on the new speaker not bringing it.
Can’t he also bring up a vote to unseat any speaker? The Gift That Keeps Giving.
That was the deal with McCarthy, not clear if that’s the deal that anyone else will have
It’s House rules for this legislative session unless they vote to change it.
I was gonna say…can they even do that without a Speaker?
So this is just performance, it seems, with no ability or intention of following through.
Speaking of, did Nancy Pelosi actually vacate the office the temp speaker kicked her out of? I hope she just laughed.
I’m not sure; will have to look that up. But yeah, I hope she either laughed right in McHenry’s face or at least replied on her official letterhead “Lol, no.”
Aw man, she left it.
According to a Pelosi spokesperson, who spoke to Politico, House Minority Leader Hakeen Jeffries’ staff helped pack up Pelosi’s office on Tuesday night.
In her defense, that’s the “high road” thing to do. I’ll never fault anyone for taking the high road.
True, but I at least hope they left the office a huge mess.
Maybe with a note saying, “Restored to the condition I found it in, upon arrival on the morning of 1/7/21, after it had been prepared by your constituents.”
At least a nice steamy upper decker.
It’s New York GOP, not the entire party. The New Yorkers need to have some cover, but know that the rest of the party will kill the resolution.
Political theater.
But it takes 2/3 to remove him. No way there are enough Republicans with morals and integrity for that to happen.
Wait so only republicans vote? I thought it was the whole house.
It is the whole House. Right now, there are 221 Republicans and 212 Democrats. So 325 votes are needed to expel Santos. You can safely assume that all Democrats will vote to expel so the Republicans will need to come up with 113 more votes. This is a little over half. If half of all Republicans can’t agree on this, it will fail.
How did you get 325? There are 435 members normally (433 assuming your numbers are right with vacancies, which seems believable.) 2/3 of 435 is 290.
So you’d only need ~78 republicans with morals. Still wouldn’t happen, but weirder things have.
It is, but you’d need a substantial portion of Republicans to break ranks and vote to expel a member of their own party (reducing their vote margin) in order to expel him, since the Republicans are the majority
I hope to see it but certainly not holding my breath.
the social media platform X
It’s still funny that people have to say stuff like this now instead of just “Twitter”.
I’d prefer if they’d just say “stupid fuck Elon Musk’s X”
My reading of that headline was a rollercoaster.
First I read it as “Republican Lawmakers introduce resolution…”, and I was excited and pleasantly surprised.
Then I reread it and realized it was, "Republican Lawmakers to introduce resolution…
And suddenly I was Dwight Schrute.
one edge of the Republican values envelope has been located
Are they sure they have power to do that to the Emperor of America?
He’s no Norton.
How does it work? If there were a third party in the congrees, would the two biggest parties just be able to expel all members from that party from house since they can easily get 2/3 majority?
In theory yes, in practice not so much since they’d probably be useful to one side or the other for votes.
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I don’t know why it isn’t spelled “superceding” though.
Because supercede is a variant of supersede.
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I don’t think they can vote for said resolution until a speaker is elected or rules are changed. Santos would have a vote on both of those things.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A group of House Republicans from New York are introducing a resolution to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress.
“Today, I’ll be introducing an expulsion resolution to rid the People’s House of fraudster George Santos,” Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., said in a post on the social media platform X.
Booting Santos would require a two-thirds vote of the entire House.
The move comes a day after federal prosecutors issued Santos a 23-count superseding indictment alleging he committed identity theft, fraud and other offenses.
“If they want to be judge, jury and arbitrator of the whole God damn thing let them do it,” Santos said, responding to the resolution as he ran to his office from a Republican conference meeting.
Santos’s New York colleagues had previously called for him to resign in light of the criminal charges and revelations
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I stand with George Santos
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This is because he once wore the clothing typically worn by women but he’s a man, probably. The corruption is pretty much table stakes for these people.
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I think I’d have less downvotes if I had written table “steaks”. Swing and a miss.
