Welcome to Monday Morning Politics – the Christmas Eve edition! For those of you tracking Santa tonight, here’s a website to help you (Santa was delivering gifts in China when I posted this column).

By the way, I have some last-minute shopping to complete so today’s column will be shorter than normal.

In case you are a new visitor, this column is where I take a look at some of the political stories that caught my attention from the past weekend and put them in one place for my readers to see. I also provide some commentary!

Today I write about Mike Crapo, Mitt Romney, the NRA, and much more!U.S. Senator Mike Crapo:

The Idaho senator was arrested for DUI in Virginia and had a blood alcohol level .110. He ran a red light. Fortunately he did not kill or injure anyone. He has a court date on January 4.

He should resign…

Romney didn’t want to run?

Mitt Romney’s eldest son, Tagg, was interviewed by the Boston Globe and talked about his father’s campaign saying, “He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire… to run.”

So…he ran twice and spent more of his personal money on running for President than most Americans make in a lifetime. So yes, I don’t think he wanted to run…

National Rifle Association:

I happened to catch Friday’s press conference (in which the NRA did not allow questions) by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and also watch NRA’s Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre take questions on Meet the Press yesterday (Sunday).

I was not impressed. Frankly, as the owner of several guns, I was expecting more ideas from the Nation’s largest gun rights organization.

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