On Santos: Fraud Vitiates Everything

Topic: Perspective

Fraud vitiates everything which it touches…

Vazquez v. Dreyfus, 1928

vitiate – /viSHē āt/ - to destroy or impair the legal validity of

Last week ended with a bang, or a thud, or whatever you want to call it, when freshman New York Congressman George Santos was sent packing – becoming just the sixth member of the U.S. House to be expelled in American history.  Santos is an interesting study, admittedly.  Even a mere glance at his social media reveals a penchant for drama, uneasiness at the practice of being serious, and strangely enough – an occasional dabble of authenticity afloat in a sea of lies.

Embellishment is one thing.  99% of all resumés are loaded out with white lies, exaggerations, and the best side of every candidate.  Others, like Santos, only get exercise by jumping to conclusions or stretching the truth.  Sometimes, when I ponder the extent of Santos’s fabrications, I don’t know whether to be upset, or impressed.  After all, he went lower than his Democrat opponent and managed to unseat a three-term incumbent in what was otherwise a pretty ugly midterm that fell far short of everyone’s expectations on a national scale.

It has been out in the open for quite some time that Santos is not honest like George Washington, who fables tell us couldn’t tell a lie.  He would never earn the moniker “honest” like Lincoln did.  None of this could oust him from Congress.  It took a House Ethics Committee report full of things that should infuriate every one of his constituents, and rightly alienate anyone wishing to field a slate of America First patriots willing to do the right things most of the time, accounting for the broken human condition and the fact that we are all, to varying degrees, fallible and screwed up.

Should Santos represent the people in the U.S. House?  Probably not – and in a system of elections people can trust, he almost certainly wouldn’t have been reelected in 2024, even in what looks like a right-trending year for New York.  Don’t let this distract you from the fact that the Republican House did all it could do to facilitate the probe into Santos, while doing precious little else to fix glaring issues causing all Americans to suffer.

Here are the Top 10 reasons I don’t give a hoot in hell about George Santos’s indiscretions, or the motives of the U.S. House to expel him:

1)    The Borders are Wide Open

As if the southern border weren’t enough of a gaping problem and hazard to life, limb, and the pursuit of happiness, now we have explosions taking place on the northern border – but nothing to see here, right?  At least once per session it seems, House leadership zips down to McAllen, Yuma, or Laredo for a photo op in some tactical gear so they can put it on their mailers come primary season – but little effort to build the wall, deport illegals, or fight back against the regime’s use of border patrol agents as babysitters is expended.

2)    Fiscal Restraint is out the Window

How many more times will the federal government be on the verge of a shutdown until I care?  It appears one of the main duties of a U.S. House representative is to kick the fiscal can down the road until retirement (fully funded on your dime), not force cuts to bloated entitlement programs that enslave posterity to incalculable debt.  But hey, let’s focus on the strip club visits on Santos’s credit card statements.

3)    “The Squad” Operates Without Hindrance

The vulgar left, spearheaded by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Jamaal Bowman, who got off scot-free for pulling a fire alarm at the Cannon House Office Building in order to hinder a critical vote that was going against the interests of the left, has little opposition aside of the occasional sideswipes and verbal backhands that are flung back and forth during various House hearings and panels, which never seem to accomplish anything.

4)    We Defend the Sovereignty of All Nations but Our Own