‘Today Is The Day We Sh*tcan Santos’: Dana Bash Reports on Republican Celebrating Santos’s Expulsion

On InsidePolitics Friday, CNN’s Dana Bash demonstrated just how much House Republicans may have been looking forward to kicking now-former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) out of Congress, even if most kept it quiet to the very end.

One GOP lawmaker, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), broke from the pack, however, and tweeted out loud what the others may have been thinking.

“Tony Gonzales, his fellow Republican, he’s out of Texas, tweeted this this morning,” Bash said. “Today is the day we shit-can [sic] Santos.’ It’s really subtle there!” Bash exclaimed.

“That’s Texas for ‘expel,'” joked David Chalian.

“Yeah, thank you for that translation, David Chalian, of New Jersey,” Bash said.

Gonzales’ tweet was in response to another that quoted Santos before the expulsion: “If it is Gods [sic] will to keep me here I will stay and if it is Gods [sic] will for me to leave I will do so graciously.”

“This guy, I mean, Santos, was, for a year, just a black mark on the institution, a black mark for the House Republican conference. And obviously, he had just worn out his time for any goodwill with enough of his fellow Republicans,” Chalian said.

Panelist Laura Barrón-López from PBS NewsHour added, “Members who voted to oust him said that it was very clear based on the ethics report, based on what we heard about the federal trial, that Santos was stealing money from his campaign coffers. And, Congressman Max Miller sent out that email earlier today saying that he was stolen from by Santos’ campaign, and that that appeared to also push Republican votes back against Santos.”

Santos is only the sixth lawmaker ever to be voted out of Congress, and the only one who hadn’t been involved in the Confederacy or convicted of a crime.

Watch the clip above via CNN.