US GOP Senator Mike Crapo (left) says the appointment of Janet Yellen as US Fed Secretary will be ‘carefully considered’ by Congress. I say, were I called Crapo, I’d have given very careful consideration to changing my name by Deed Poll before running for Office: but he’s a game boy, he finished first, so who am I to judge? Well, just an humble blogger actually, so let’s put Mike Crapo to the test.
Republican stalwart Crapo was elected to Congress in 1992, representing Idaho’s 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. After three terms in the House he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1998 with 70% of the vote. He was re-elected unopposed in the 2004 election, a rarity in the Senate. He was re-elected in 2010 with 71% of the vote. Quite an impressive record.
Now I’d imagine that, as a Mormon, Mike made great play about being teetotal while he was busying getting elected and then reelected. And indeed, the record shows that he was very keen on stressing that point.
So when Senator Crapo was arrested on December 23, 2012 in Alexandria, Virginia after he ran a red light, failed field sobriety tests, and registered a blood alcohol content way over the legal limit, it must have come as something as a surprise to his constituents in Idaho, 26.47% of whom are Mormons. On January 4 this year, he pled guilty to a drunk driving charge. He was fined $250 and received a one year suspension of his driver’s licence.
There are two morals to this story, and they’re coming up now.
1. Next time they go out to vote, those Idaho electors need to give ‘serious consideration’ as to whether their Senator is full of it or what.
2. Maybe Mike Crapo was born Ayem Alush, but changed his name because the chances of becoming Idaho’s first drunken bum Islamist were very slim indeed.
This is not to suggest by the way that I even begin to endorse Janet Yellen as the head of the Federal Reserve. Her idea that more QE will save jobs is rather like saying pawnbrokers save lives: there’s a deeper underlying problem, of which the QE/moneylender syndrome is but one symptom.
But that’s The Slog for you: even handed to the end.
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