{"id":1033,"date":"2006-12-21T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/big-bill-gets-some-presidential-help-from-santa\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:51:00","slug":"big-bill-gets-some-presidential-help-from-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/big-bill-gets-some-presidential-help-from-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bill gets some presidential help from Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RYbZBOG0h_I\/AAAAAAAAAI0\/Yj29cd-U4LM\/s1600-h\/RichardsonWatch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RYbZBOG0h_I\/AAAAAAAAAI0\/Yj29cd-U4LM\/s200\/RichardsonWatch.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009930250486056946\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Jay Miller\u2019s planned Christmas Day column is a play on the classic poem \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Night_Before_Christmas\" target=\"_blank\">The Night Before Christmas<\/a>\u201d in which Gov. Bill Richardson laments his low poll numbers among 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls but ends up with quite a gift from Santa to aid his White House bid.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The poem begins with these lines:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cTwas the night before Christmas at the governor\u2019s mansion when Bill began fretting about losing traction,\u201d it reads. \u201cI\u2019m stuck at just two percent in the polls. That\u2019s not going to get me on many talk shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the poem, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> complains that he\u2019s accomplished all sorts of international feats, but he isn\u2019t gaining ground in the polls. He frets for awhile, then gives up and lays down to sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Then Santa shows up, gives the governor his sleigh to help him travel more quickly around the nation, \u201cand you won\u2019t have to ask loan sharks to make a donation.\u201d (Ouch! Cheap shot!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cYou\u2019ll be the first president to go door to door,\u201d Santa tells <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. \u201cYou won\u2019t have to do chimneys, which I know are a chore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Here\u2019s another cheap shot:)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cFor a man of your size, who\u2019s as big as me, you can fit in my sleigh, as you can easily see,\u201d Santa tells the governor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Miller has <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> give Santa a ride home. The governor takes the reins, \u201cto his team gave a whistle, and away they both flew away like a Virgin Galactic missile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Enough of my quoting. Just go to Miller\u2019s site and read it by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/insidethecapitol.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/12-25-bills-gift-from-santa.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. It\u2019s hilarious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Miller\u2019s planned Christmas Day column is a play on the classic poem \u201cThe Night Before Christmas\u201d in which Gov. Bill Richardson laments his low poll numbers among 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls but ends up with quite a gift from Santa to aid his White House bid. The poem begins with these lines: \u201cTwas the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}