Update on the George Santos Lie Fest: Today, Nassau County Republicans held a news conference and demanded that Santos resign from Congress immediately. They were joined by another newly elected Long Island Republican, Anthony D'Esposito, and (eyebrows raised here) the state party chair.
The Nassau GOP chair said that Santos "has disgraced the House of Representatives," which is a pretty impressive feat these days.
What's actually happening, more likely than not, is that local and state Republicans are getting an earful from their donors. In a party with no principles whatsoever, the only thing that could matter here is money.
Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans are silently slow-walking the Santos situation because they're loath to lose his vote in an already closely divided House: NY-03 could easily flip back to a Democrat if Santos throws in the towel and Governor Kathy Hochul calls a special election. But whoever represents the district, voters there deserve to have somebody in office providing them constituent services, if nothing else. (Republicans aren't famous for caring about such things. Ask the voters in NC-11.)
Now that Republicans are lining up to demand Santos resign, journalists must keep the pressure on. Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Tom Emmer and Elise "Elsie" Stefanik should not be able to walk the halls of Congress without having microphones shoved in their faces and questions hurled.
While the media's at it, though, would they perhaps be more willing to lay the Santos debacle at the GOP's feet? Nassau Republicans supported Santos both in 2020 and 2022. The party chair admitted today that their vetting sucked. "[Santos] was not someone that we knew," he said. "We trusted him and shame on us for doing that." We cats HISS.
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