Fun with Santos

 

Much about politics and politicians is ridiculous. Sometimes the ridiculousness has to be dealt with seriously because of the harm it can do, but sometimes it is just plain fun. That is the situation with the business over George Santos. Democrats are professing shock and outrage over the fact that, of all things, a person seeking public office would lie about his qualifications and background in his campaign and demanding that he resign to preserve the purity and essence of our electoral process. Republicans are responding that Santos should resign only after Elizabeth Warren, Richard “Rambo” Blumenthal, and Joe Biden set the example and resign first.

The Republicans have the best of it on this one. One may argue that Warren and Blumenthal have not been caught in as many lies as Santos, but two of the ones they were caught on are especially bad. Grabbing an affirmative action job by lying about being be a member of an ethnic minority and insulting actual combat veterans by lying about being one are both egregious. Apologists for Biden do not even have that argument. He has gone well past Santos in the number of whoppers about his background and history and done so over a much longer time.

I think people should leave Santos alone and let him serve his term. The little scoundrel is in a place where he belongs among a bipartisan group of people with whom he fits in. After all if every habitual liar in the congress resigned, how would there ever be a quorum to do the people’s business?