This was so predictable it’s almost funny. Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), one of the most slimy and unqualified members of Congress in U.S. history, is about to be expelled after an epic Ethics Committee report on his myriad crimes and ethical lapses.

The 56-page report said the panel’s bipartisan investigation found a “complex web of unlawful activity involving Representative Santos’ campaign, personal, and business finances.” The committee’s investigation found that Santos had committed multiple frauds and thefts from his campaign while falsifying campaign and personal finance reports. This is all on top of the nearly two dozen federal criminal charges that Santos faces from two indictments, including wire fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds. And, of course, it has long been established that virtually his entire resume was fiction.

Yes, only in the U.S. can a complete sociopath and fake like George Santos be elected to make a nation’s laws. Be proud, America!

And what does Santos have to say in his defense, after calling the chair of the Ethics Committees a “pussy,” that is? Naturally, he is appealing to multiple rationalizations! It’s a dizzying list: 1. “Everybody does it,” 2. “They’re just as bad,” 3A  The Road To Hell, or “I meant well” (“I didn’t mean any harm!”), 6. The Biblical Rationalizations (“Judge not, lest ye not be judged,” and “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”),14.Self-validating Virtue, 22. “There are worse things,” 38. “Give him/her/them/me a break!,” 41A. Popeye’s Excuse, or “I am what I am,” 50A.  Narcissist Ethics , or “I don’t care,” 58. The Golden Rule Mutation, or “I’m all right with it!,” and 61.  The Paranoid’s Blindness, or “It’s not me, it’s you.” That’s just a cursory list; there are more.

Santos nicks all of them by whining that Congress is full of “felons galore” and “people with all sorts of shiesty backgrounds.” He called those preparing to kick him out as “a bunch of hypocrites,” who are guilty of extramarital affairs, getting drunk with lobbyists and missing votes due to hangovers, and “handing out voting cards like candy” to allow others to vote on their behalf.

The remarkable thing is that as much of that may be true, none of the members of Congress, even the worst of them, are the equal of Santos for pure sociopathy. No matter how bad Congress is, it will still be more ethical and trustworthy when Santos isn’t part of it any more.

In related news, the Ethics Committee decided not to investigate Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s unethical conduct in deliberately pulling a fire alarms to interrupt a house vote and subsequently lying about it. Watch Bowman vote to expel Santos.

Santos’s rationalizations are pathetic, but when he says a lot of those who will be voting against him are hypocrites, like the proverbial stopped clock, he’s not wrong.