Report: Santos Tells House GOP He Will Recuse Himself From House Committee Seats

[occamscoin]

Frankly

Wait… so everything you said up until the “Frankly” was BS? Ok, agreed.

@sniffit

Frankly, semantics was precisely the game the GQP was playing: calling it recusal instead of resignation to make it look like they weren’t just bringing down the hammer on Santos

Ok, Mr. “recuse means resign”, give us a timeline of when santos actually resigns from something, either a committee seat or his House seat.

[occamscoin]

@ajm

My understanding of a discharge petition

Why are you talking about discharge petitions when there’s nothing to bring to the floor (discharge)? Hell, the committees are mostly not even staffed yet.

[godwit]

@zenicetus

Even if these are relatively low-profile committees, I can’t believe McCarthy wouldn’t want a warm body in that seat when there will be Dems on the committee and the R majority will matter.

And also, lots of people didn’t get the assignments they wanted because Qevin sold them to the clown caucus to get his speakership.

Someone with a decent brain could help their donors quite a lot with a seat on the small business committee

[ajm]

Because it is a reasonable suspicion that McCarthy is not going to want to let any motion to expel Santos any where near the floor.

[occamscoin]

@godwit

Someone with a decent brain could help their donors quite a lot with a seat on the small business committee

SBC is one step up from House Ethics Committee in the desireability list. Can’t see a critter wanting to give up a better seat for one on SBC.

[godwit]

I was unclear. Santos’ committee assignments were on the least desirable committees. But Qevin traded the nicest seats to win Magats votes for speaker. Giving the good seats to Magats means not giving them to those who expected them based on seniority. Which no doubt kicked off a whole game of musical appointments trying to smooth things over by yanking yet other seats. Santos’ seats are not great but they are better than nothing and Qevin desperately needs to replenish his supply of favors.

[occamscoin]

@godwit

and Qevin desperately needs to replenish his supply of favors

I don’t see how having a vacant seat on SBC and Science, Space&Tech helps him there.

[daveminnj]

@jonney_5

I’m going to offer my boss to recuse myself from the work part of my job

Yeah? Well if you pay me double I promise to stay home.

[sniffit]

@occamscoin

Wait… so everything you said up until the “Frankly” was BS? Ok, agreed.

Hmm…no…that’s not what frankly means and it’s not in any way what was indicated by the substance that followed its use.

@occamscoin

Ok, Mr. “recuse means resign”, give us a timeline of when santos actually resigns from something, either a committee seat or his House seat.

I never said they mean the same thing. I quite clearly was saying they were functionally equivalent in this particular case. He’s likely never sitting in a committee. He’s probably leaving congress. McCarthy and the rest of the GQP have him on a tight leash and any disobedience will be met with them turning on him. McCarthy can, at any time he feels like it and no doubt with the full support of almost all other GQPers (maybe a couple holdouts just to see if they can make demands and get something out of it) just fully remove him from committees by organizing a vote. They have him by the balls, completely, but for sake of appearances and politics are playing pretend that he’s being a good boy.

The POINT in mentioning that the GQP is playing semantic games was to highlight that their use of ‘recuse’ here was splitting hairs for messaging purposes, and they know it and we know it and they know we know it. You’re playing into their game.

Chances are that the dude’s days are numbered, and he’s gotten too toxic for them to allow him to fully participate in the meantime. Allowing him to save a little face helps them save a little face.

[john_adams]

Nor are their “parties” like Crippled Cawthorn thinks, but here we are.

[jonney_5]

@thunderclapnewman

Members of Congress do not receive free healthcare.

Cocaine orgies are epic though

[thunderclapnewman]

@gajake

My ignorance of Broadway encompasses almost everything about Broadway.

Heathen!!

[arrendis]

Noooooo.

[arrendis]

@occamscoin

Santos does not matter, one way or the other.

Except in terms of visibility and drawing the spotlight. That’s what I meant when I said that Kevin can still get things through those committees. As for what he’ll get through them… who knows? But whatever agenda item he wants to put there won’t be burdened by ‘What is Santos saying, and why does that automatically make this idea bad?’

[sniffit]

@arrendis

Noooooo.

Yeah…for me, another bit of my early childhood gone. Mom used to love that show.

[gajake]

@thunderclapnewman

Heathen!!

I know. So ashamed.

[psudawnc]

It says parody right in the fine print on the bottom but I agree, pretty hilarious.

[old_guru]

Santos will notmbe there long enough to qualify for a pension. His only hope is to sell his votes to various rightwing lobbies for the time he is there… before he goes to trial for fraud and election law violations.

[old_guru]

Santos might have…if he had the slightest “wokeness”…figured out that the kind of fraudulent “service” that little Maddie exibited gets a one and done asterisk behind your name, and no pension to take with you when you get kicked out.
Bad as Maddie was, what we have now is a much smarter, more hardworking asshole who will get things done. None of them good for the people in his district.

[itsjibba]

@occamscoin

why the fuck would democrats want him gone before the next general election?

Cause he’s a vote. Get him out and he is likely replaced by a Democrat. It could make the difference in passing legislation. Who knows, flip someone and a couple more get arrested or die and the Dems could squeeze out a majority before 2024. Not likely but possible.