Lipstick on a pig

 

Lipstick on a pig says it all regarding the repugs trying to justify the existence of the fabulist known as George Santos as the sole purpose of a politician, once in office, is to get reelected in order to continue to have one's nose in the financial trough of governance.

To whit ...

Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) has put Republicans in a pickle: How do party leaders deal with his fabrications and misrepresentations without jeopardizing their slim majority or setting a precedent? 

The answer so far, for the most part, is to say nothing and let Santos speak for himself — and perhaps to let voters decide Santos’s fate in 2024.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Tom Emmer (Minn.) and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) have not commented on the revelations surrounding Santos’s background and falsehoods. 

The reality is that a slim incoming majority of 222 GOP seats to 212 Democratic seats and one vacancy leaves Republicans little political incentive to come down hard on Santos, as they might need his vote to pass their priorities.

Duh ...

“He’s eventually going to pay a price,” one Republican strategist said of Santos, speaking on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. “But he’s not going to pay a price at least until after the Speaker vote because of the tight majority.”

“You have to honestly play the counterfactual. If this situation erupted within the Democratic caucus, [Speaker] Nancy Pelosi [D-Calif.] would keep this under wraps as well and not hand out a punishment until after that happens, whatever that punishment may be,” the strategist said. “And unfortunately, you also have a slippery slope here. If you go after this guy for lying, where does it stop?”

It never does ...

Addendum from the Aussies. :)

How many pollies does it take to stimulate an economy? All of them it seems… Following on from the recent stimulus package (details in this post) announced in early March 2020, the government has announced a new “safety net package” over the weekend.   

Whilst a recession looks inevitable, Scomo and his team are reapplying the lipstick to the pig, despite the pig not being allowed out due to social distancing legislation…. we digress!

Any questions? :)