Dec. 4, 2023 - Dennis Prager Show
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| On a domestic issue in the United States, George Santos was expelled from Congress. | |
| Five members of Congress have been expelled in the history of the United States Congress. | |
| Five. | |
| Three because of their being in the Confederacy. | |
| They earned it. | |
| No question about that. | |
| And two, because they had been convicted of some serious crimes while in office. | |
| This is the first time in the history of the United States Congress that someone has been expelled without even being convicted of a crime. | |
| And when people have said to me all of my broadcast life, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, or Tweedledee and Tweedledumber, As some have said about the Republican Party, what did I say when I joined it? | |
| I went from the bad party to the stupid party. | |
| But I have defended the Republicans much more than attacked them, because they're the only organized political opposition to the Democrats, who are working to destroy the United States as we know it. | |
| Indeed, Barack Obama acknowledged it. | |
| In five days we will fundamentally transform the United States of America. | |
| You don't fundamentally transform what you admire, right? | |
| Any of you want to fundamentally transform your spouse? | |
| If you do, I suspect you don't particularly care for your spouse. | |
| Because you wouldn't want to fundamentally transform what you respected. | |
| Is that fair? | |
| Of course it's fair. | |
| So now the Republicans have decided to be as corrupt as the Democrats. | |
| I'm not a fan of this George Santos. | |
| That is irrelevant. | |
| This is just another example of removing a brick from the edifice known as America's institutions. | |
| The first time in history a congressman who committed, well I should say not committed no crime, plenty of congressmen did. | |
| Hard to believe that Harry Reid, after whom the Las Vegas airport is now named, was not corrupt in office. | |
| Became a wealthy man while in the U.S. Senate, like Joe Biden as vice president and senator. | |
| But you don't get rid of a member of Congress because you don't like them, or you think they did bad, or you're even sure they did bad. | |
| You have to be convicted first, or you had to be at least until December of 2023. That's bad. | |
| The Wall Street Journal wrote a beautiful piece on this. | |
| The unprecedented thing that has been done with over a hundred Republicans voting for it. | |
| What the hell was on their mind? | |
| I would like to know. | |
| What was on their mind? | |
| We will show that we are wonderful too. | |
| That's what it is. | |
| Oh, we don't tolerate a bad Republican. | |
| We'll join with you Democrats. | |
| So, of course, the same thing that now they want to do. | |
| What's it? | |
| Fetterman? | |
| Is that the guy? | |
| Pennsylvania senator. | |
| What's his name? | |
| Yeah, Fetterman. | |
| Fetterman. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Fetterman has now said, let's do that to Menendez, who's also not been convicted of any crime. | |
| Listen, if you find gold bars in a guy's freezer or refrigerator, you suspect something. | |
| Okay? | |
| I agree. | |
| And that's a Democrat. | |
| So this will not end. | |
| It's astonishing. | |
| Three were expelled when they joined the Confederacy. | |
| No other member was expelled between 1861 and 1980. Then in 1980, Democratic Representative Michael Myers was expelled after being convicted on federal bribery charges. | |
| By the way, the House Ethics Committee did not recommend that he be expelled. |
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