Whitestone: Jimmy Durante used to shut out each present with, “Good night time, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you might be.” I believe Hakeem Jeffries, Home minority chief, ought to shut out each congressional workday with, “Good night time, George Santos, whoever you might be.”

My uncle, a salesman, used to joke, “By no means inform the reality when a lie will do as effectively.” Santos goes past that and tells lies even when lies received’t do in addition to the reality. He’s such a constant, compulsive liar that he should seek for the reality to be able to say the alternative.

Rep. George Santos (Alex Brandon/AP)

Santos must be a sick man. It will need to have been apparent to him that his lies had been so outrageous and simple to debunk that the reality was sure to return out. He lied about his highschool, his faculty, being a champion volleyball participant, working for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and about founding an animal charity. He divorced a girl in Queens however says he’s homosexual and has a husband on Lengthy Island, however nobody has seen his husband or discovered a document of his marriage. He stated his mom’s demise was associated to the 9/11 assault, however in 2021, he stated it was the fifth anniversary of his mom’s demise. He has stated he’s a Roman Catholic and stated he’s Jewish. He stated his grandparents survived the Holocaust, however information present that each of his maternal grandparents had been born in Brazil.

The Republican Get together is changing into, within the phrases of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Kennedy Toole, “A Confederacy of Dunces.” However Toole’s New Orleans was enjoyable. The GOP is harmful. Michael J. Gorman

Brooklyn: To Metropolis Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, concerning your nod to liar George Santos (“He’s a liar, however we’d like GOP vote: pol,” Jan. 19), keep in mind the saying, “While you lay down with canines, you get up with fleas.” Is that this what you educate your kids? To win in any respect prices? Disgrace on you. June Lowe

Sayreville, N.J.: Simply as I used to be contemplating ending my subscription, right here comes S.E. Cupp along with her redemption (“The GOP: Rotting fish or bag of rotten apples?” column, Jan. 19). This iconic journalist has been a savior for this declining media outlet. Her in-depth evaluation of the GOP as a bunch of “dangerous apples” couldn’t be extra spot-on. I’m deeply involved about the way forward for this once-great nation. Contemplating the upcoming ‘24 election, the selection needs to be between two events: “Decency” and “Indecency.” Kindly be reminded, Mr. and Mrs. GOP: Silence is, in reality, consent. Desmond M. Chase

Silver Spring, Md.: As a chaplain who served throughout the restoration interval on the World Commerce Middle, I’m disgusted with George Santos’ ongoing lies about his background. Now we uncover that his pricey mom by no means perished on Sept. 11, 2001. He’s clearly exploiting 9/11 for his personal egocentric achieve. He makes Pinocchio appear to be a reliable function mannequin. I’m grateful that the New York Republican congressional delegation has condemned this charlatan! I want the remainder of the Republican members of Congress would have the identical ethical compass. Sufficient is sufficient! Santos should depart from the U.S. Home of Representatives. He’s no extra a public servant than I’m an astronaut on the planet Pluto! Brian Jordan

Bronx: This is likely to be only a coincidence, however there’s a man who goes by the identify of George Santos who owes me 100 bucks. Sandy Harris

Lakewood, N.J.: I’m not shocked by the Republican Get together’s actions and non-actions. Nonetheless, what they’re doing to our democracy is a sin. After they lose an election, they are saying it was rigged. It’s changing into a pattern. They lie and cheat to get elected and their leaders are silent. They declare that Santos was elected and it’s not their duty to intervene. They might be out of their minds if a Democrat did this. They refused to contemplate a Supreme Court docket nominee when Obama’s presidency had 10 months remaining, but they appointed one in all their cronies when the orange moron’s time period had solely 4 months left. They simply appointed a deranged psychopath to the Homeland Safety Committee. McCarthy bought his soul to get the wanted votes to turn out to be speaker of the Home. Do what’s proper for America, Republicans, not what you assume is true on your diminishing celebration. Frank Mongiello

Backyard Metropolis, L.I.: They lied about their educations. They lied concerning the sports activities they performed. They lied concerning the accidents they sustained. They lied about 9/11. They lied concerning the cash they made. They lied about their contributions. What did I overlook? Trump/Santos ‘24. Paul Falabella

Babylon, L.I.: Sadly, my stunning, loving, sort twin sister, Susan Marie (Fischetti) Davniero, handed away on Jan. 8. We gave her the gorgeous funeral she would have needed, however just some loving family and friends attended. Sadly, Elvis Presley’s daughter handed away on Jan. 12. 1000’s of individuals are anticipated to attend Lisa Marie’s public funeral, in contrast to my sister’s. I do know Susan wouldn’t have judged the individuals who didn’t attend, however I’ll eternally be her advocate and be disillusioned for her as a result of I beloved her. Satirically, Susan was an enormous Elvis fan and handed on Elvis’s birthday. She was a printed author. Her letters, essays and poems had been printed in so many newspapers and magazines — too many to say all — together with The New York Instances, the Day by day Information, Newsday, Reader’s Digest and all the ladies’s magazines. Susan’s printed letters, essays and poems will likely be her legacy, not her funeral. Laura Marie (Fischetti) Bowman

Forest Hills: I don’t like Alec Baldwin, however actors depend on prop individuals to provide them the fitting issues to make use of. Arrest solely the one that gave him the gun. Baldwin’s job as an actor is to know tips on how to use the prop, not verify if it’s protected. Sara Ross

Brooklyn: I observed round many companies in Brooklyn that the staff park on the sidewalks. Enforcement brokers stroll by and don’t write tickets. I additionally discover that throughout Brooklyn, vehicles park on the sidewalk or in illegally made driveways, with their entrance or again protruding into the sidewalk. There needs to be zero tolerance for parking on sidewalks. Parking on sidewalks is harmful for pedestrians. If this downside isn’t discouraged now, it’s going to solely worsen. It looks as if there isn’t a accountability for breaking legal guidelines in New York Metropolis these days. Kalmus Lowe

Yorktown Heights, N.Y.: To Voicer Sara Rebecca Storch: One-day blackouts? Possibly the place you reside you go with out energy for sooner or later however in my space, after a foul storm, we might be with out energy for as much as two weeks. One in all my neighbors has an all-electric home, and through a six-day energy outage, all he needed to prepare dinner with was his barbecue. My home has a fuel range and a fuel water heater. Throughout that very same outage, I used to be in a position to prepare dinner and take a sizzling bathe. I’ll take a fuel equipment over an electrical one any day. William J. Griggs

Brooklyn: Mayor Adams, what are you pondering? How do you return on guarantees that had been made to metropolis employees way back? I’m one of many employees who took a lower-paying job as a result of the advantages had been good. I’ve been working for greater than 20 years with the thought that I’d have my medical insurance once I retire. Now, to avoid wasting the town cash, they need to reduce our advantages. What? Final time I checked, you don’t change the foundations in the midst of the sport. Change the foundations for the brand new gamers and depart the previous gamers alone! Is the cash that you just need to take from us tax-paying residents going to pay for the non-tax-paying immigrants coming to our metropolis? I hope you’ll not be on the lookout for a second time period as a result of I don’t assume individuals like rule-changers. Valarie Matta

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