Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice and, and, and you won’t fool me again   President George W Bush

When it comes to criminal chameleon George Santos, here’s all you need to know. According to one of Santos’s former roommates, Santos was almost obsessed with getting into the United States House of Representatives. According to the roommate, Santos’s logic was simple. He used to say, If you just serve one term in congress, you’re all set. You’ve got guaranteed medical insurance and a pension guaranteed for life! What a dipshit. According to the rules, you have to serve five years in order to qualify for a pension, and if I’m reading the rules correctly, while you can COBRA your insurance for a limited time, you must retire with tenure for continuing medical coverage.

So here’s a man to bone stupid to even spend an hour or so doing a little research on Google before he steams off half cocked to try to lie his way into congress. From where I’m sitting, that tells you all you need to know. After all, if you can’t trust a miscreant to get his facts straight before he runs off to grab for the brass ring, how carefully did he research before he stormed off on any of his other bullshit scams. You look at George Santos, and what you see in your minds eye is Graduating Class of Attica U, 2034.

But that’s Kreepy Kevin McCarthy’s problem child, and his ever present nightmare. As I wrote previously, McCarthy mitigated his risk by getting Santos to step down voluntarily, saving him from a possible floor vote to strip Santos of his committee assignments if the vote to remove Omar from her post is successful. But practically speaking, that’s all McCarthy can do to contain the damage.

Because right now Santos is under criminal investigation in at least four different local, state, and federal law enforcement entities. And that doesn’t even count Brazil. There was reporting today that Santos is now under investigation for his allegedly stealing more than $3000 from a Navy veteran he scammed for treatment for his cancer stricken service dog. And right now 89% of Democrats, 72% of independents, and 71% of Republicans in his own district want his ass in the rear view mirror. Which means that all McCarthy can do is to keep Santos under a bushel basket, size extra large,and pray that he doesn’t get indicted. Because if he is, he has to go, and McCarthy knows it.

Santos was a fluke from the beginning. His district was redrawn after the 2020 census, making it more competitive. But it was still a Democratic leaning district. Santos snuck in basically because GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin wildly overperformed on Long Island, and enough Democrats stayed home, thinking the thing was in the bag to let Santos slip through.

But if Santos has to resign, and a special election has to be held, McCarthy is boned, for two reasons. First of all is the simple fact that NY-3 is still a Democratic leaning district, and the Democrats would be gung-ho to get some payback. My guess is that you would see a record turnout among Democratic voters in a special election.

The bigger problem for McCarthy would be the general revulsion for Santos on the part of the GOP constituents. 71% of them want Santos gone and forgotten. But worse is the mentality of the constituents. 71% of GOP voters feel jobbed and conned by Santos, a GOP candidate. If it comes to a special election, what do you think the chances are that GOP voters either stay home, or come out and vote for the Democratic candidate to spank the GOP for having misled them?

Let’s be clear, Santos is going down. He’s too selfish, he’s too stupid, and he’s too egocentric to survive the pathetic scams he pulled, now that they’ve come to light. The best that McCarthy can hope for is for Santos to remain behind the scenes as long as possible, before he’s ousted, and McCarthy’s majority in the House shrinks by one. What a way to run a railroad.

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4 COMMENTS

  1. Not counting the illegal activities by Trumplethinskin with the 2020 census in NY which caused the house boundaries to be redrawn because NY lost a seat, followed by the Trump appointed judge and Trumplican Special Master appointed in the NY redistricting lawsuit that resulted in completing the gerrymandering of NY-03 to make it more friendly to Trump backed Santos…..

    The main reason Santos won by 20,000 votes in NY-03 House District was the New York Times holding back on printing the story from the 80+ page research/intel report Dems provided to the NYT on Santos’s lies weeks BEFORE the November 8, 2022 election. Instead the NYT waited until December 2022 to run the story. Meanwhile, leading up to election day, the NYT acted like the NY Post and ran exaggerated violent crime story after violent crime story, which was exactly what Zeldin & Santos were pushing in their agenda leading up to the election.

    The 2nd contributing reason Santos eked out a victory over Zimmerman was Tom Suozzi, who beat Santos by 47,000 votes in NY-03 in 2020, and who was well known and popular in the district, attempted to primary Hochul for governor, lost badly to Hochul and could no longer run in NY-03. Instead Robert Zimmerman, more to the left of Suozzi, and much less well known in NY-03 barely won the D Primary for NY-03 by 37% of the vote in a crowded field and was low on campaign funds heading into the Nov. 8 election. Meanwhile, Trump & the GOP made sure the Republican Primary for NY-03 was cancelled and there were no R challengers to Santos, so all the Putin backed oligarch $$$ + campaign $$$ from Trump backed PACs could be funneled to support Santos for November 8. Also, remember that Santos was present at Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech in DC just prior to the attempted coup, so Santos’ ties to Trump/Putin $ backing go back several years. As for Democratic turnout being less than 2020, that may have contributed, but the bigger factor was the fact was that the gerrymandering of NY-03 boundaries itself changed the number of R voters much closer to the number of D voters in the district, to make it more competitive for Santos.

    Bottom line, if Suozzi had stayed to run, OR the new district boundaries were the same as in 2020 with Zimmerman running, OR if the NYT hadn’t sat on the information they were given about Santos … Santos would have lost again – like he did in 2020. Santos needed all 3 of those to happen in 2022 along with Trump illegally stopping the 2020 NY census when it was 89 persons short to make NY lose a house seat to set in motion the process of redrawing the NY State House boundaries in order for Santos to eke out his 20,000 vote victory. So even if Santos was truly an upstanding honorable honest candidate (he’s not by any stretch of the imagination), he still needed Trump & Putin’s backing $, and illegal gerrymandering & census activities by Trump & the GOP-Nazi party to pull off his win.

  2. I believe if Santos were to be replaced by a Democrat McCarthy’s majority would decrease by two – one for losing Sanos and one for the new Democrat. Try it with small numbers – lt’s use 1501, a 10 vote majority – if one of the 15 goes down, it’s 14-5, a 9-vote majority. ut if the one that’s lost is replaced on the other side, it’s now 14-6 – an 8 vote majority.

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