Apparently 105 Republican members of Congress have decided that “due process” is no longer needed for anyone who stands accused. Regardless of how you feel about New York Representative George Santos, the expulsion from Congress, without any judicial or court hearing, is a remarkable development.
The final vote was 311 for, with 114 against expulsion. Reps. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.) and Al Green (D-Texas) voted “present,” and Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Nikema Williams (D-Ga.) voted against the measure.
Santos becomes the first Republican ever expelled from Congress and only the sixth member in history to suffer such a fate.
A special election will be held in New York CD-03 to replace him. The Republican House majority now sinks to four seats if all members are present.
Democrats rally around their accused with political ferocity. However, the jellyfish Republicans can never elevate to see the bigger picture. The big winner in this outcome are House Democrats who can now strategically use the small majority to defeat Republican legislation.
WASHINGTON DC – Top GOP lawmakers have a new problem on their hands: Rank and file Republicans frustrated with their leaders’ late-game opposition to expelling George Santos.
The New York Republican’s intra-party critics finally succeeded Friday in their push to expel their indicted colleague. They prevailed despite the opposition of all four top House Republican leaders, who lined up in the 24 hours before his ejection to say they would support keeping Santos in office.
Republican leaders also didn’t whip votes against Santos, arguing that his expulsion was a vote of conscience. In the end, their members split almost evenly — 105 voted to bounce him and 112 voted not to. But some who voted to expel took issue with their leaders’ decision to come out as opponents of expulsion at the last minute, warning that it risked looking like an attempt to tip the scales for Santos.
Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) said he was “very disappointed” with how GOP leaders handled the vote.
“Too many people, including leadership, were using excuses that simply cannot be successfully argued with everyday Americans,” Womack said in an interview. “Had leadership had its way, we would have reset the bar on standards of conduct at a level that we would live to regret.”
Womack, a respected senior appropriator, added that “I am thankful that there were enough thoughtful members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle, that recognize that there was only one course of action here.” (read more)
The Republican wing of the Uniparty are experts at losing while proclaiming they held on to their principles.
Santos deserved due process. However, if you look at the litany of Republicans who voted against him, you will discover the same aligned names were with the Nancy Pelosi impeachment effort against Donald Trump.
Republican uniparty doing whatever it takes to lose a critical election.
Pious they are. Principled they are. But you see they couldn’t vote to impeach Mayorkis, couldn’t even push across a vote to censure Talib. Couldn’t go after the insect Ilan Omar who’s in this country illegally. Couldn’t push a vote to impeach Wray and they won’t on Biden either. But creeps like this arrogant creep Turner from OH who chairs the House Committee on “Intelligence” who along with McCarthy, McHenry and others are in bed with the CCP and Sequoia Capital’s/Neil Shen donations. But Santos offended their “principles” and delicate sensibilities! So help me I hate these pos bastards with a PASSION. HERE’S is what Santos has done for this country since he’s been in congress. Can’t have this… His voting record is 24K GOLD. https://www.tpaction.com/legislators/georgesantos
Pharisees. Perfect overlay.
My thoughts exactly. I was thinking all of these things as I read this article. Meanwhile, the garbage heap of Bidens crimes, lies, dishonesty and so much more is larger and more relevant than anything Santos did, and they can’t bring themselves to deal with it. My anger against the Republican party rises higher and stronger every day. I will not answer their appeals for money, my thoughts or any other thing they want from me. I am sick and tired of being manipulated by them. I have always disdained the Democrat party. But my disdain for the Republicans has outgrown the Democrat party exponentially!
Mine too! This sad event has been weighing especially heavy on me today given the importance of principles in play something Bensonhurst52 certainly put into wonderful context above.
Indeed, it’s been amply proven that the more individual Repubs show they’re open to the progressive agenda,
the more their services are in demand. Ask RINO Ryan, or -super-lite- maga McCarthy. They know business booms when they become ‘open-minded’ about selling out their country. The word spreads too!
When you realize there is only ‘one’ party you will truly know how far We have fallen into the ‘tyranny’ trap.
Communism, Naziism, Leninism, Fascism, monarchy, ; ALL tyranny no mater what it’s called takes the power from the people.
God Help US
Manipulation is the root of all evil; both for the control and the money.
They won the election. Now they are trying to give it back.
Welp, we’ve tried everything we can according to the rules. I’m willing to give it one more shot in 2024 and vote for Trump. But if they steal that one too then its pretty clear there are no more legal or political options left.
Short of some sort of peaceful national strike/walkout, no, no options left.
We have to stop paying for their antics; it’s taxpayer’s money used for every nefarious deed done around the world.
Do it legally; get rid of the 16th, then go to the state and stop property taxes……..legally.
Close government – you keep working – while every bureaucracy is dismantled; reps come back to make a budget and go home till next year. …till a new budget is needed. When tax dollars only go to the US military and the maintenance of Our buildings in DC they should be used as museums that charge admission every day except when the senate and house meet for the budget (one day). The president and his gang can rent Camp David for their headquarters. Out of their own pockets. No federal police, local only. They want security then they can pay for it.
I could go on and on…..
No walk out, keep your jobs and keep your money to live, keep your private property, keep your schools. It’ll be the workers that keep the country going. Just no income tax. SSN will stand – no other agency can take a penny, business will pick up more of their share.
The world will not fall apart without big government; the smaller the better for everyone. One legal election yearly, no real national campaigns, no political industrial complex. Businesses compete for jobs; from street cleaning to raising tall buildings and bridges and foot the biggest taxes.
Just day dreaming, but population size shouldn’t warrant bigger government if the cards are played right. IMHO
God Help US
Just like Paul Ryan did to give the dems and pelosi control to fight Trump
I remember that Omnibus over which he sided, just before Trump was signed in, that gave the Dems EVERYTHING THEY WANTED, and THEN SOME…Just to screw with Trump and his few loyal ones, to give us and P. Trump the middle finger.
Of course it’s intentional. This is the insurance policy against a second PDJT term. Tank the congressional election.
“if you look at the litany of republicans who voted against him, you will discover the same aligned names were with the Nancy Pelosi impeachment effort against Donald Trump.”
Sundance
Dead on! Here is more of why George Santos was expelled:
https://www.newsflare.com/video/538986/america-first-george-santos-speaking-at-dc-rally-the-day-before-j6
The Santos expulsion vote is yet another distillation of Ronna Rinos; they are slowly cooking themselves out of existence…glad to see it happen.
FRP
I would not touch them with a ten foot tranquilizer dart.
Would they have done this if the majority was just by one? Most likely… Rep McClintock loves to morally preen to contrast himself with those immoral Ds.
He used to be a great guy. I knew him when he was in the CA Assembly, and worked with Barbara Alby. So disappointed.
Guilty as accused , the new GOP motto !
The consequences of unchecked immigration, as seen in New York.
The results from Democrat policy is a campaign ad for new Republican leadership. .
The majority of Republicans are imbeciles or corrupt or they just flat out imposters. I’m so fed up with the Republican Party, I could just spit!
I wish we had been able to convince President Trump to form a new party so we could run over these jackals.
Now, not only do I have research everything going on in the world that these bozo’s might touch or be involved in, then I have to write letters and call their offices to make sure they know what they should be doing, then I have to follow up and call or write them to give them praise if they did the right thing, or chew them out for their birdbrained decisions. They can’t be trusted to do the simplest thing they signed up to do. They are sneaky, sly, liars and criminal.
Honestly! Why do we even need these people! I’m working my rear off with a job, a household, and monitoring them on top of it. I hate these people!
No, you do not hate them.
You despise them.
Totally different and they have earned it.
Texas list? Moran, Gonzalez and Crenshaw are the only ones I recognize.
Eternal vigilance –
https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/eternal-vigilance-price-liberty-spurious-quotation/
Also – read what George Washington wrote (WARNED) about political parties.
Trump has said no to a third party several times because he knows it’s a fool’s errand. While third, fourth and fifth parties thrive in parliamentary systems, they don’t in the US. It’s better to work from within. it will take eternal vigilance to change the republican party, but it’s possible. Ronald Reagan changed the republican party, but it was lost almost overnight with the election of HW.
We will never know because we didn’t try. The entire “republican” brand turns people off. I believe President Trump thought/thinks he needs the structure of the party apparatus to succeed in making American great again. I see it as a handicap.
What happens after Trump is gone? Are you really going to continue voting for these people?
We are used to being divided by two; they want no division……they want ONE party and still call it a Republic.
Well, it will have to be renamed ‘tyranny’ government if they get their way; We have to fight like heck to keep our share of the two party system.
They want to get rid of US in the equation of a Republic; the We the People Part, the foundation.
Stick to your guns – pun intended- and God because We are Republicans first last and always; Get Santos back in office……good starting point. Then get Trump back in and We have a fighting chance of keeping Our Republic and Constitution out of the hands of tyranny, communism, fascism or whatever the Uniparty is pushing.
They knew all about him all along. The useful stupid liars are the best tools of our deep state. Look no further than the present occupier of the White House.
The so called “republicans” are “remarkable.
They have not only allowed the demoncrats to destroy our Republic, they have aided them in the destruction.
Disgraceful.
A good list of Republicans to be primaried! Gotta get these apathetic voters out to vote in the primaries!
Montana Rep. Zinke voted to expel.
I won’t forget, come primary time.
NC — Rouzer. I’m sure he’s licking Sen. Thom Tillis’ boots. Maybe we need to expel you, Rep. Rouzer!
One is Michael Burgess from Texas.
Rest of the list? Moran, Crenshaw, Gonzalez and…..?
My GOP rep has a perfect voting . Unfortunately, it is with Democrats. If she wins reelection next November, it won’t be with my vote. And yes, she voted to expel Santos. What good is having the majority when the Democrats govern anyway?
As an aside, as always the Treehouse is my refuge. I thought I had to be nuts think the GOP with slim 5 vote majority was crazy expelling him. Then I read Sundance’s essay and and the comments and thought “Whew..I am not alone.”
The GOP cannot make these monumental errors by accident. They truly would rather destroy the country than let go of the auxiliary power their Uniparty colleagues allow them.
We are SO screwed! President Trump should have formed a new MAGA party in 2017. He thought he could work with these tools. Big mistake.
Pete-the-loser Stauber from Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District.
He’s afraid of his own shadow and can’t make a decision without all the other little girls agreeing with him, so the other little girls must have said big ol’ Georgie was bad.
Stinchfield had on a guest tonight who wagered that McCarthy has his fingerprints all over this.
Brian Milmeade had McCarthy on his radio show today. The oil and slime oozing out of the speakers would have powered a small town grid. I turned him off. He is Paul Ryan 2.0, working behind the scenes to return to status quo. GOP in minority, running on promises they have no intention of keeping. Did Santos vote against him? If so, this probably is his power play to destroy those who did. Now it is up to us. I won’t vote for my GOP rep even if the Dems run Old Scratch himself against her.
They need to expel you, McCarthy!
Now I know EXACTLY where Speaker Johnson stands. RINO.
So much for being the leader of his party. Pelousi would never allowed this to happen in her regime.
Well Pelosi has always been and always will be a bitch tyrant.
Do you really know what you are asking of Speaker Johnson?
Think about it.
I find this absolutely comical. This jam-oak was expelled for the exact same behavior and conduct by nearly every politician throughout history.
His “offense” was bragging about it and stating he was just behaving like a normal politician … giving his fellow jam-oaks a bad name.
Probably expelled for revealing those guilty of the same behavior !
My note to my worthless RINO congressman who voted to expel Santos.
Congressman,
I’m sending you this brief note to inform you that once again, you have confirmed my opinion of you as worthless and stupid. Though I know you completely don’t care, just in case you’re curious, here’s my reason.
You voted to expel Congressman Santos, yet you have done nothing, either actively or passively against a legend of members of Congress who are guilty of serious crimes and even treason while Santos has been convicted of nothing; but I guess that’s OK with you.
Though I nearly died defending this nation because I once believed in the idea that it was worthwhile and noble, I now know better, due largely to politicians like yourself. As a result, I will vote for a Democrat before I vote to send you to Congress, whom I see as worthless, cowardly, and most likely corrupt based on your insane voting record.
You never fail to disappoint!
They also couldn’t impeach Mayorkas who is facilitating the invasion of our country.
Those who voted against him were covering their own behavior. Can’t have a whistleblower in the house.
Thanks Dawg and I will do the same, probably by “forgetting” to fill in their boxes.
Great letter!
Hope you don’t mind if I make a few changes and send it to loser Pete Stauber.
Please do! I was so enraged when composing it that my grammar and syntax were less than good. You can do better!!
The republicans are a dead party and voting isn’t gonna save us.
Either we abolish this government and create a new one or we are a dead country.
New Yorkers know that the last thing New York needs is another Democrat!
Democrats are destroying NYC and NY state, and only have themselves to blame!
People can see it clearly!
We need better Republicans and less Democrats.
WRONG!
Republicans are part of the UNIPARTY globalist traitors!
You need MAGA Republicans.
Big Difference!
We’ve got some primarying to do!
And that worked the last election?
‘Expelled’ because he was found guilty of….. oh, wait…….
Guilty of stealing only $5,000! Should have stole $5 million if he wanted to join the big club!
Stupid, stupid, stupid. republicans do not deserve to have a seat in my house. 2 AR reps voted to boot santos. May they rot in hell. I am done with my rep. I will NOT vote for him in the primary. We do have a challenger this election.
Those evil beings in the repuke party are worse than the dems. God is shaking, He will not be mocked.
Burgess is from Texas. He needs to go.
It is fascinating to learn once again that your vote does not count.
George Santos was duly elected as a congressman from New York. He was not convicted of anything.yet the majority of Congress voted to expel him.
His constitutents are now disenfranchised. Why? Well because the congresspeople who voted to expell George Santos have no respect for the Constitution or American citizens. Your vote and my vote mean nothing to these sanctimonious fools. Our country is on the brink and these selfish people are attempting to overthrow our republic.
Rouzer, NC, never met a problem he couldn’t be on the wrong side of!
Reminds me of the #MeToo nonsense when conservatives were more than happy to join with leftwing feminist psychopaths to do away with due process as long as it meant canceling Hollywood stars and media talking heads. These people were incapable of seeing what doing away with due process would lead to. When they were surprised that mere allegations were then used to torpedo people like Judge Moore and then used against Brett Kavanaugh and President Trump, I realized these were some of the dumbest people on earth. To this day there are still people supposedly on our side who think mere allegations against someone should result in some punishment. No one should lose their livelihood just because someone accused them of something.
The more I see from this Republican House under Mike Johnson, the more comfortable I am with my decision to never vote Republican again unless that person is 100% MAGA. And to be MAGA they must acknowledge that the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump. Without that baseline, I would never vote for any these traitorous losers. I have no problem with Democrats controlling every lever of government power and forcing people to wake up and fight back or lose their freedom altogether. Voting Republican sure as shit ain’t gonna save this country.
100%!
This is what it’s going to take.
Never again should these traitors be allowed to gain power & wealth off of our backs/votes.
No problem with the democrats controlling every lever of power because republicans are weak? That’s like saying you’re fine with the Bolsheviks running the show because the Mensheviks were weak and stupid. That excellent strategy led to civil war and the Soviet Union.
Throw away your broad brush and go granular. Start working to primary flush any of those 105 names. Take your pick. Then give money, call, write etc . . . anywhere your voice can be heard. It can start here if you like. Here’s an example “Eject Flaming Vile Turncoat Kevin McCarthy!” You want MAGA or at least better republicans then work for it. And for heavens sake, don’t give money to the RNC.
That’s correct. I believe we won’t be able to vote our way out of this because we don’t have a party that wants what we want. So yes, the only way left would be the most bloody and violent revolution in the history of the world.
What has all the writing, calling and giving money gotten us so far? How many times are we going to continue to do the same thing that doesn’t work. Remember when we were all excited about electing Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Paul Ryan and many others? How did that work out? No matter who we elect, besides Trump, as soon as they get to Washington they screw us over. Every single Republican Senator voted to prevent Trump from making any recess appointments. EVERY SINGLE ONE. So you can keep donating and voting for these evil scumbags and I’ll be over here waiting until you realize the futility of it all. Lemme know when you’re ready to make a real change.
Don’t worry, I don’t give any money to the RNC. I don’t give any money to any Republican. I only donate to President Trump.
You are free one day and then you are not.
The new new
RINO’S gonna RINO so stupid. Santos beat a long-held Democrat seat and the Uniparty kicked him out so Dems can steal the seat back. Pathetic. Live your best life and f@#k politics.
With a resume like that he could be president.
gotta be pretty bad to be thrown out by the worst of the worst this nation has to offer
These fascist bas*ards did this so they can pass a huge omnibus to fund the government. They don’t want impeachments of pedo joe or mayorkas either.
When tshtf…these snakes need to be dispatched first.
Democrats are going to take control of the House and McCarthy is gonna help them screw us. Republicans had a 4 seat majority. Expelling Santos takes it to 3, one Rep is retiring which takes it to two, and Mccarthy is not expected to return after the holiday break. A one seat majority with plenty of backstabbers willing to give dems control like Bscon and Buck. Then Dems will hammer this in 2024 that Republicans were given the house by the voters and could not even manage that.
Sorry, Steil (my WI Congressman), you may have voted your “conscience”, but that won’t defeat commie, baby killing, pedophile, kiddy diddlying, UnAmerican Dumbocrats. We need Wolverines, not wimps.
They ain’t done. Some retirements, and SOH goes to the other side. J6 tapes stop, though they already have, and Deep State can move a D incumbent in. Can you say President Nadler?
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Anything to make our formerly esteemed process a global laughingstock. They seek to dishearten us through ridiculously placed imbeciles. Conservatives dont win the meme war. Ours is digital. The other side is winning the meme war with flesh-and-blood imbeciles controlling your life on a daily basis.
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Understand their mind game. Turn people, one by one, until it is embarrassing to be a leftist.
I just posted the same thing. I think McCarthy sticks around long enough to where his departure is the final knife from Brutus.
Apparently 105 Republican members of Congress have decided that “due process” is no longer needed for anyone who stands accused.
The House gave the voters of George Santos’ district a big FU.
More two-tiered BS.
The Republicans are doing everything they can to make sure no one votes Republican ever again.
Due process = protecting your fellow plunderers.
The local congresscritter who beat Liz Cheney in the primary voted against expelling Santos (piece of **** that he likely is). Said he hadn’t been convicted of anything. I’m good with that.
As said here before, my local, aahh, sorta rural precinct had 46 people voting R in the last congrescritter primary election. Liz Cheney got six votes in this precinct.
Republicans want to lose and then fundraise off of being out of power.
The do not want to govern.
True. So don’t give any of them a single penny. Let them lose and become irrelevant.
I don’t doubt he broke rules and maybe laws, but this guilt by accusation stuff is a plague on our nation. Even if I believe he should be expelled, he should have been convicted, before expulsion. I know half the deep state reps have committed worse offenses and with crooked judges and a fascist DOJ they would never be convicted, much less prosecuted, but we have to stand on the principles of the Constitution. One by one, we can get these Marxist, Commie, Nazi, globalists out of their positions. It won’t be quick. They have been doing this for decades. If we bow to their level, we are no better.
Just my thoughts and beliefs.
Pray for our people. Pray for America. God wins overs everything.
“I don’t doubt he broke rules and maybe laws, but”…..
I doubt big time!
With the 4th Branch of Government running this country into 3rd world shithole status every.single.day, I have not seen any proof of any truth to any of the allegations. Have you Dithotx?
What a bunch of losers the GOPe are.
Santos might have been a POS, but he was our POS.
The R’s taking the “high road” to Loserville. Or so it seems. Meanwhile, the down and dirty D’s progressively always win.
I wish they were just clowns. In reality they’re demons from hell.
Perhaps this action today is a precursor to what the GOPe has in store for President Trump. Boot him out either before or after a “conviction “.
dude was voted into office. congress should not have a say.
I agree very much with the point of your post. Foolish and shortsighted to deny due process regardless of who Santos is or may be. 35 years in the legal community, I am watching the shredding of laws and rights and salutary legal principles everywhere. Assange, Trump, Chauvin, J-6’ers, Trump again, Russiagate, and now Santos (and Trump again and again and again) We have lost our way, not sure we can ever get even close to the way back…
power mongering psychos jockeying for position trading favors, fornicating, felatio, reach arounds, bribes, and smelly fingers.
this is congress. its what they do 24/7.
What vile, vindictive SOBs, never missing an opportunity to betray the people they claim to represent. They disgust me.
This is the insurance policy against PDJT winning again.
Tank the congressional majority.
It’s the smart move for the Deep State. Fewer eyes on this one.
No way they win the Senate. They aren’t going to let PDJT confirm any of his appointments.
RYAN-0 zinke was selected by DJT as his Dept of the Interior secretary. This guy should have never been elected to represent MT in the US house! Not once, but twice!
Without President Trump’s endorsement he would not have won.
Remember that.
The 2nd time.
The first time, in 2014, he barely won in a 4 way primary. The other 3 candidates were much better conservatives than he (one was current house rep Matt Rosendale). His voting record in the MT legislature was abysmal. What platform did he run on?
Ryan zinke, navy SEAL………………….and that was it!
The only difference between Santos and the rest is he’s a less accomplished liar.
Well, GA Rep Andrew Clyde is MAGA all the way, so far, that I can tell.
This is a scam. It’s a sham. This guy, Santos, has been ACCUSED, and the House of Representatives, held their secret meetings to decide how to
handle this Sham and how it effects them in the long term with President Trump likely winning the Primary and likely winning the Presidency.
It’s all a scheme that they cooked up, filled with BS lies, to make them look good to the MSM and Dems…but I believe the 4th Branch is the brain child behind this BS…..They are planning on cutting into the House Republican majority and give Jeffries (Pelosi and 4th Branch) control of the House, with McCarthy’s (traitor) blessing.
End game is to STOP TRUMP/MAGA at all Costs!!!!
Don’t be naive; this is all created BS.
I hope SANTOS goes nuts on all of them and exposes the fraudsters involved.
If Santos has an ounce of common sense, he and or his “people” have already been in touch with President Trump to expose the TRUTH.
Everything I have read about this guy, has already been done by more than 90% of the full congress at any point in time in the history of the USA!
This is all controlled BS!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/fetterman-defends-santos-attacks-democrat-menendez/
Gosh, these people are brain dead. He already said he wasn’t running again. Republicans in congress are as spooked by the media as the next guy. Some things will never change.
So now these idiots have lost one vote and will needlessly spend money for a contentious election in an off year.
The GOP cowards will jettison one of their own on the basis of accusations only and no criminal guilt. Just like they did with Steve King -IA. Another McCarthy railroad sellout to keep his Uniparty relevant.
I had forgotten about the Steven King incident.
This whole kerfuffle reminds me of a great political cartoon I saw some time ago. A simple 2 scene cartoon, the first scene in a nice looking man in a nice suit complimenting the reception at his office on her hair- she’s thrilled. The next scene is an overweight unattractive man complimenting the same receptionist on her new dress, and this time the receptionist calls HR.
Poor George.
There are now three reasons that you can be expelled from Congress: supporting the south in the Civil War, being convicted of a crime, being George Santos.
His real crime, was taking a seat from a demo. He is accused of misusing campaign contribution, Maxine (D-Cal) put her entire family on the payroll or lets talk about the magic genus stock picker Nancy and the list is long of criminal and liars. This guy was embarrassing the NY republican (cough, gag, cough) delegation. He proved you can get elected in NY as a conservative. His voting record was pure MAGA, that is what his constituents wanted, and gosh forbid any of them vote as the people they represent.
Another reason to destroy and rebrand the absolutely worthless Republican Party.
I’m to the point where I’m almost embarrassed to be a republican.
Free oneself by becoming unenrolled. Republicans hate you.
The problem is closed primary elections in states like Florida. You must be a registered Republican in order to vote in the primary. And that’s the only election that matters which is why it’s so hard to rid the govt of RINOs. Most voters ignore the primaries.
likely a good thing…
In Alabama, and I would bet other states, the primary is open IF YOU SHOW UP AND VOTE IN PERSON.
You cannot vote absentee without registering as one or the other.
But Anyone can show up,. sign a meaningless, unenforced pledge to vote for the party, and vote in the primary.
The Democrats have done this to the Republicans in Alabama for years, trying to put the weakest candidates on the ballot ( Like Judge Roy Moore.).
I like Jerry Carl, he’s less scummy than most I think. But who can really know.
Yep.
You should be embarrassed to be a republican and the rest of us as well. It’s time for THE PEOPLE to wake up and quit pretending and open our eyes to the REAL WORLD that’s staring us in the face.
Comer voted for it. What a pompous dick he is.
i am disgusted
The proper response is that you are outrage that they masquerade as elected officials. The implication of your statement is that they share your principles and the logical, agreed outcomes of these principles is this embarrassing outcome. This is far from the truth. Actually, this is the narrative used to disheartened you. They do not hold your principles. They are beholden to radically special interests that have nothing to do We the People.
There is nothing to be embarrassed about. There is plenty to be absolutely outraged about.