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"“He didn’t just steal from a service dog. He didn’t just steal from a dying
service dog. He stole from a disabled homeless veteran’s dying service dog. Oh
my God. You evil and stupid!”
That was how Leslie Jones, guest host of Comedy Central’s
The Daily Show,
summed up just one of this week’s revelations about George Santos, a US
congressman whose shameless fabulism has stunned Washington, a capital that
thought it had smelt every flavour of mendacity from politicians.
“What does this man have to do get thrown out of Congress?” Jones asked,
echoing the thoughts of many. “He’s a fucking liar.”
Yet the answer is that, far from being expelled from the House of
Representatives, Santos, 34, was rewarded with assignments on two of its
committees. The vote of confidence appeared to be an expedient calculation by
the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, aware Republicans have such a slim majority
that even losing one seat would make it much harder to pass legislation.
But it was also a decision, critics said, that showed the party of Abraham
Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower has lost its moral compass. Stuart Stevens, a
political consultant and author of
It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party
Became Donald Trump, said: “Santos is a perfect example of the collapse of the
Republican party.
“It shows that the party stands for nothing. It seems like a million years ago
but there was a time when we said character was destiny. Nobody even knows who
this guy is. We literally don’t know his real name.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
