What Can the House Do to Address Santos' Falsehoods?
On the campaign trail, Rep.-elect George Santos, a Republican who ultimately flipped a Democratic seat in New York, misled voters about his work and educational history, his family’s heritage, his past philanthropic efforts and his business dealings.
His litany of fabrications has raised questions as to whether Santos, who was elected last month to represent parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, will be allowed to take his seat next week when Congress convenes or thrown out once he is sworn in.
But House Republican leaders, who have so far remained silent amid the persistent questions about Santos, are unlikely to punish him in any significant way. Even if they could force him out of Congress, it would prompt a special election in a swing seat, setting up a potential blow to the party’s already precarious majority.
And Santos has pledged to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader, for speaker next week as McCarthy faces a rebellion on the right and needs every vote he can get.
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enjoyably funny, but great imagery too, posted by JHB this morning:
Yes I hope the GOP out of control rabid dogs hurl themselves over a cliff.
work together to protect the stability of our democracy from. But yes! On to the battles of 2023...!
And preserving our national character reflecting integrity and honesty.
That is all gone now.
Happy New Year!
I always knew that extremism was too dysfunctional to allow integrity and recognized its severe dependence on self deception and deceits of others.
I didn't realize before seeing it happen, though, how spread and "normalization" of extremism itself poisoned national integrity and the even the basic self honesty needed for self protection. A more dangerous infectious disease by far than Covid, which couldn't have killed over a million Americans without it.
an extravagance of new questions leading to leaps in knowledge. I envy those who could see the horrific forced awarenesses we went through, though, as mostly great opportunities to advance understanding. 
At least we now have confirmation of the existence and anti-democratic potentials of left wing authoritarianism. In 2016 we could observe it in action, threatening the sovereignty of voters in our own party, and wonder in shock at what we saw, but googling brought no answers. Scientists were also observing, though, and thank goodness. The attacks alone caused the Democratic Party to tighten up some party rules, etc, but with new knowledge we'll hopefully be better able to prepare for additional challenges in future.
Nationally too of course. It's unlikely for the foreseeable future that the GOP will be able to join in substantive action to limit the dangers of authoritarianism since it's such a big driver on the right. This'll still be above all our battle. As always.
Just gotta keep it up.
As for what we can do about Santos: leave him hanging around the Republicans' necks. 
need to undo by recall petition ..who is George Santos..who will be a vote in our house..talk about chaos, mayhem, cheats, liars, who is Geoge Santos..may the full force of the investigations weigh heavily, mightily, upon his head..imagine.
Security clearance???
Will "who is George Santos" pass..??? TRUSTWORTHYNESS ..
Through the process of election and selection to a seat in the House of Representatives or Senate comes with it a certain public seal of access to information of a sensitive nature. (Few voters likely think about this when they vote, but it’s a key reason trustworthiness often plays a major role in politicking). Both the House and Senate do have security offices and staff – with the responsibility for overseeing access to classified information, among other things.
