I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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If I were Gaetz and Greene I would worry that their shenanigans might lead to them being expelled from Congress. As far as Santos leaving, good riddance to bad rubbish. Karma is a bitch and let's hope his next residence is a jail and his job is to clean the toilets.
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Oh yes, good riddance to Santos. What a big waste of time he is.
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Rep. George Santos expelled from Congress on bipartisan voteWashington Post
The House voted Friday to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from Congress — an action the chamber had previously taken only five times in U.S. history and not for more than 20 years — in response to an array of alleged crimes and ethical lapses that came to light after the freshman lawmaker was found to have fabricated key parts of his biography.
The resolution to expel Santos passed in a 311-114 vote, easily exceeding a required two-thirds threshold for removal, with numerous Republican lawmakers turning against Santos in what was the third effort to expel the New York congressman this year. Two Democrats voted present, and eight lawmakers did not vote.
Nearly half of House Republicans voted to oust Santos even though some GOP leaders voiced concerns about setting a precedent by expelling a lawmaker who had not been convicted of a crime.
The vote followed the release two weeks ago of a 56-page Ethics Committee report that accused Santos of an array of misconduct — including stealing money from his campaign, deceiving donors about how contributions would be used, creating fictitious loans and engaging in fraudulent business dealings. Santos, the report alleges, spent hefty sums on personal enrichment, including visits to spas and casinos, shopping trips to high-end stores and payments to a subscription site that contains adult content.
Moments after the expulsion vote, Santos left the chamber and headed down the Capitol steps to his car, trailed by dozens of reporters.
“You know what? As unofficially already no longer a member of Congress, I no longer have to answer a single question to you guys,” Santos said before his car pulled away
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I'm glad to say that my generally useless representative voted for expulsion.
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I watched NBC News tonight where they showed Santos was immediately expelled from office after the vote. They showed a maintenance guy taking Santos’ name plaque off his office door and changing the locks. Hahahaha! I totally loved that. Sayonara, baby! B’bye!
from another article:
Two previous efforts to oust Santos failed. But the latest push gained traction in part because the resolution was sponsored by Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), the chairman of the ethics panel, and because of the audacity of the behavior alleged in the report.
During House debate over the resolution Thursday, Guest defended the panel’s work and report, saying investigators spent eight months reviewing 172,000 pages of documents and interviewing 40 witnesses. The findings, he said, “were shocking.” He also emphasized that Santos had “ample opportunity to be heard” by investigators and the committee.
“It almost would have been a dereliction of my duty if I did not support this,” Guest said Friday. “I did what I felt was right from a personal point of view.
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Altho as another Congressman said, (and I’m paraphrasing here) how can some Republicans vote out Santos when his crimes seem like nothing compared to Trump’s, yet these same Republicans won’t vote against Trump. Truly makes no sense.
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Well that sure won't happen, but as one person mentioned, if we just could vote out all the ones who voted to KEEP Santos we'd be way ahead. Those are mainly the ones that vote no all the time to begin with and stop progress to make trouble.
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Well Speaker Johnson, that one blew up in your face. What you get and Theo got for your having done something you shouldn't have.
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Love your levity, Any Klobuchar.
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She is garbage.
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Don't let the Loon anywhere near a ketchup bottle.
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DeSantis is lost and is likely going to be on loser status from now on.
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Another take. I think she blistered him good.
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For most it is likely impossible.
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Very well said.
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You are so full of it, it's a wonder you can even walk.
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A conservative justice nominated by Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor broke the Supreme Court glass ceiling and paved the way for other women to follow in her footsteps. The article below states: “O’Connor was considered by some as a “swing vote,” often siding with the court’s liberal justices in consequential cases around abortion rights and affirmative action.”
Several years ago, I read a well-written biography about her, “First”, and it showed me O’Connor was a woman of integrity and class. I saw a clip of an interview of her in 2010 where the interviewer said, “After graduating law school, you could not get a job.” O’Connor said, “I couldn’t even get an interview.” In that respect, women have come a long way. I can still feel outraged when I think about how women were completely shut out the work force, shut out of influencing the policies that guide our nation. With Sandra Day O’Connor, that began to change. May she rest in peace.
Tributes pour in for Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman Supreme Court justice
Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, tweeted Friday that “her life and career are a testament to hard work, determination, Western grit and the American dream,” and praised her as “a force of nature, with a keen grasp on basic common sense.”
Sarah Suggs, president and CEO of O’Connor’s eponymous Institute for American Democracy, told POLITICO in an interview that being with O’Connor made Suggs feel as if she was with a “founding mother.”
“It didn’t matter if there was great conversation or no conversation, just being in her presence was still a very tall shadow,” said Suggs, who said she last saw O’Connor about a month ago for lunch.
Suggs first met O’Connor on a trip to Washington in 1987 and has been a part of the institute, which focuses on civics education, civic engagement and civil discourse, since 2011. “She shattered the glass ceiling of an equal branch of power. And that itself is a very profound thought,” Suggs said.
Ambassador Cindy McCain, wife of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and current executive director of the World Food Programme, tweeted that O’Connor was “an Arizonan and American trail blazer” and a “force of nature whom John and I were lucky to call our friend.”
Tennis legend and feminist activist Billie Jean King, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom alongside O’Connor in 2009, posted on X that O’Connor was a “trailblazing inspiration for 25 years.”
O’Connor was appointed to the nation’s highest court by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. A conservative, O’Connor was considered by some as a “swing vote,” often siding with the court’s liberal justices in consequential cases around abortion rights and affirmative action.
She retired from the Court in 2006 to take care of her husband, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and began working on initiatives to improve civics education around the country.
O’Connor retired from public life in 2018, after she revealed she had been diagnosed with dementia.
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Playing politics with the Supreme Court (thanks Mitch McConnell) has certainly degraded the Supreme Court since Sandra Day O'Connor's time. She is a testiment to how a Supreme Court Justice should act, inside & outside the courthouse.
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What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that
permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those
with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more
than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism,
that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone
to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute,
skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve."
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Despite the fact that there are now four female judges at the SC, one wonders what Sandra O'Connor would think if she could see it now.
It has gotten almost as insane ad the Reps. party it most favors.
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Sure bombed with Hannity and Newsom. Sadly, he was positioned to see the questions he would be asked and even having extra time to formulate a possible decent answer he fell way, way short.
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Kevin — your Reps. brilliance is not showing again.
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Seems like a bit of a long trip under the bus can give a few of you Reps. a view and use of insight after the fact. Good for you. Hope you win your lawsuit.
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