Who? Not Menendez... ;)

Thanks. I must've been really drunk all that time and remembered wrong.
(Still shameful that he was a candidate and elected)

 Steely_D wrote:

The Senate confirms the justices. Santos had nothing to do with it.
Oh, & as proclivities said, Santos was not even in office during during the orange wave.

 Steely_D wrote:
Santos was only in office (The House) from Jan. - Dec. 2023.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

IIRC, wasn't the fact that the liar Santos made it into office part of the reason that Trump was able to put his nominees into the SCOTUS? As in, the GOP did anything they could to pack the court including put a known grifter into office (and then there was the issue of the justices lying that Roe was "settled" - but I won't bring that up).

Democrat Tom Suozzi wins New York race to succeed George Santos in Congress

 steeler wrote:

Yes, a fundamentalist Christian zealot.

I just read an article that details the views Mike Johnson made publicly known in Louisiana for decades. My god. We have a cultural and political Neanderthal as Speaker.

Chilling:

“If you don’t think that moving from Kevin McCarthy to MAGA Mike Johnson shows the ascendance of this movement and where the power in the Republican Party truly lies, then you’re not paying attention,” Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, said in an interview on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Especially those in seats #1 and #2.

But what if the concern over a longtime politician’s age has less to do with fear that the candidate might die or become incapacitated — and more to do with whether trying to snag yet another term at an age when almost everyone else is retired is just plain arrogant and greedy?

Indiana Rep. Walorski killed in car crash, her office says