{"id":1301524,"date":"2018-12-17T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/carnes-a-bigly-appropriate-christmas-poem-column\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:03:00","slug":"carnes-a-bigly-appropriate-christmas-poem-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/carnes-a-bigly-appropriate-christmas-poem-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnes: A bigly appropriate Christmas poem (column)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Tis&#8217; the week before Christmas<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And all through the House of White,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The majority nervously await<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For whom the Special Counsel might next indict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It&#8217;s <a id=\"N0x2cd0e70N0x2c3d800:N0x2cd0e70N0x2d12750\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/2\/20\/17031772\/mueller-indictments-grand-jury\">all being laid out<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">By Mueller with care,<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As evidenced by the fires<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Tweeted by Smockey the Bear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Come Manafort and Flynn<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And Gates and Papadopoulos,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">His crooked methods are showing<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He&#8217;s no longer populous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And now Cohen is gone<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There was no place to run,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">So he left pointing fingers<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At &#8220;Individual 1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And here comes Schumer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With the liberal trophy,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As he smiles at the power<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Now wielded by Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But the manchild won&#8217;t stop<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The one wearing his clown crown,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">&#8220;Americans must pay for the wall&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Or he&#8217;ll issue <a id=\"N0x2cd0e70N0x2c3d860:N0x2cd0e70N0x2d13368\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/9518d24c6bbe41238b8c82f092393284\">a government shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yet the bad guys still exist<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There is no missing crisis,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">They are <a id=\"N0x2cd0e70N0x2c3d980:N0x2cd0e70N0x2d135f0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2018-12-11\/us-downplays-reports-of-surge-in-isis-activity\">killing more and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Those terrorists known as ISIS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And tariffs are taxes<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ignore the false cheers,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Reality is proving<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The worst market <a id=\"N0x2cd0e70N0x2c3d9e0:N0x2cd0e70N0x2d13950\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/12\/10\/stocks-set-for-worst-year-in-a-decade-four-experts-weigh-in-on-2019.html\">in 10 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">From Carrier to GM<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And farmers of soybeans,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Repeating false mantra&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Are merely weak smokescreens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He continues to spread lies<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While losing admirers,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And can no longer even count<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On the <a id=\"N0x2cd0e70N0x2c3db00:N0x2cd0e70N0x2c76570\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/publisher-of-the-national-enquirer-admits-to-hush-money-payments-made-on-trumps-behalf\/2018\/12\/12\/ebf24b76-fe49-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.ed5639fb0c1e\">National Enquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">His MO is old<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We&#8217;ll no longer fall for this crock,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Such as his turning on Tillerson<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Calling him, &#8220;Dumb as a rock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We know it is coming<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The nice words are too smelly,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Within a few weeks<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He&#8217;ll be insulting John Kelley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Not sure if this is true<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As I hope it was for a laugh,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He wants his own son-in-law<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As new Chief of Staff?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Have we not learned<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">From this presidential wannabe,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It&#8217;s his family and ratings<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Surrounding his entire reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When this will end<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I haven&#8217;t a clue,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But I can&#8217;t wait<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Till he bids a final, adieu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\">Richard Carnes, of Edwards, writes weekly. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:poor@vail.net\">poor@vail.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/opinion\/carnes-a-bigly-appropriate-christmas-poem-column\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tis&#8217; the week before Christmas And all through the House of White, The majority nervously await For whom the Special Counsel might next indict. It&#8217;s all being laid out By Mueller with care, Recommended Stories For You As evidenced by the fires Tweeted by Smockey the Bear. Come Manafort and Flynn And Gates and Papadopoulos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 06:32:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}