{"id":56180,"date":"2023-11-17T14:25:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56180"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:31:55","slug":"so-long-rep-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56180","title":{"rendered":"So long, Rep. Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>George Santos will go down in history as the first &#8212; but probably far from the last &#8212; piss ant member of Congress to bring shame to the body before ever taking office.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Republican announced this week he won&#8217;t seek re-election to the district he won by lying his way throughout the 2022 campaign. He also allegedly stole money from his campaign fund and used it for personal pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>The House Ethics Committee has issued a blistering report condemning Santos and its chairman, a Republican who voted against impeaching Donald Trump and in favor of overturning the 2020 presidential election result, now vows to file a resolution calling for Santos&#8217;s expulsion from the House.<\/p>\n<p>Santos has taken lying to stratospheric levels. It&#8217;s unbelievable that he hasn&#8217;t been sanctioned long before now. But &#8230; it&#8217;s about to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Santos says he won&#8217;t run for re-election. <em>Big &#8230; effing &#8230; deal!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As for shaming the body? Well, it was full of shame long before Santos set foot in the House chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Good riddance &#8230; George!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Santos will go down in history as the first &#8212; but probably far from the last &#8212; piss ant member of Congress to bring shame to the body before ever taking office. The New York Republican announced this week he won&#8217;t seek re-election to the district he won by lying his way throughout the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So long, Rep. Santos<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[10100,1941,7419],"class_list":["post-56180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-george-santos","tag-gop","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56182,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56180\/revisions\/56182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}