h/t to Glen Warchol at Salt Lake Crawler for this doozy, “Chaffetz to the rescue.”
Apparently Utah’s favorite wastebuster, Jason Chaffetz, the thrifty congressman from District 3, recently returned from a “rescue” trip to Antigua where he and a colleague representative from New York flew to bail out four American tourists who were involved in fisticuffs with an Antiguan police officer.
The congressmen reportedly thought the 30-day jail penalty the tourists were facing was too stiff.
Warchol hits the ball out of the park on this one:
Excuse me, but the cruise-ship buccaneers admitted they had roughed up a police officer. If a few Antiguans tried that in the Third Congressional District, Chaffetz would toss them in a “tent city.”
Call me guilty of picking and choosing battles with Chaffetz, but here’s the facts: There’s hundreds, if not thousands of minions going around applauding Chaffetz for everything he does, locally right here with the Independence Caucus. Chaffetz is a hero of the movement, but he’s consistently making a caricature out of himself.
Give me Rob Bishop, a congressman who actually works pretty well for his constituents, over a Chaffetz clone six days a week and twice on Sunday.
Andrew Gause
