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If you want to credit somebody, credit the Republican congressmen from New York who early on went after Santos and hung in there to completion. They were afraid he would put their seats in jeopardy
Bro literally did the bare minimum to hold a colleague accountable for embezzlement. The reason why we haven't used expulsion for this before is that most other times someone is caught with so much overwhelming evidence against them and a unanimous bipartisan ethics committee determination, their party distances themselves from the appearance of corruption by calling on them to resign.
Rather than credit people who did the bare minimum in their duties to stand up against blatant corruption, maybe we should be instead looking at the Republicans and Democrats who voted Nay, Present, or Not Voting and asking them why they think this kind of corruption is okay.
As I said, they did what they could and stuck with it even against their own caucus.
You should also remember that if Santos hadn't been a threat to their own personal power they never would have supported anything like this because they're Republicans, and the Republican party has only been a vehicle for amoral hacks willing to garrote their own grandmothers' for power and social status and the completely braindead bigots who gets used as the hacks' foot soldiers for several generations now
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