Years ago, House Speaker Sam Rayburn declared: “Every now and then, a politician ought to do something just because it’s right.” Which brings us to the carny sideshow of Rep. George Santos, the Republican lawmaker so bizarrely dishonest that even a majority of Congress critters finally gagged and tossed him out. But now we’re being treated to the institutional spectacle of Republican members piously proclaiming that his expulsion shows that the GOP is “the party of accountability,” courageously establishing a “high standard of integrity.”