Dean Obeidallah: The House speaker's desperation to keep George Santos in the House isn't for some noble policy goal. It’s about the self-preservation of power for one person: Kevin McCarthy.
reported that Santos’ political team had impersonated McCarthy’s own chief of staff when calling donors to seek campaign contributions for Santos during his 2020 and 2022 runs for Congress.
McCarthy was silent in the past because he needed Santos' vote when Congress was set to meet on Jan 3 to elect a speaker. Despite eventually winning that battle, McCarthy still desperately needs every GOP vote going forward, since the recently enacted House rules package allows for only one House member in the 435-member chamber to trigger in essence aThe truth is that if Santos does resign and there’s a special election, a Democrat would likely win the seat.
Apparently, though, Santos’ “values” line up perfectly with McCarthy’s in that they both believe that the pursuit of political power at any cost is perfectly acceptable. Republican leaders in Washington, from McCarthy on down, need to take a lesson from the local GOP officials in New York's Nassau County. They have given priority to the interests of the voters in having a representative who is an honest public servant and not a serial liar under criminal investigation — even if that means losing the seat to the Democratic Party.
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