These two paragraphs in a Denver Post profile are turning into the Rosetta Stone of Bill Richardson.

Instapundit dislikes the speeding, but notes that at least he was driving a hybrid. (Quick, someone calculate how much more energy you use by speeding at 90 mph instead of driving the speed limit.) Mickey Kaus notices that Richardson finds a bill that would have offered legalization to illegal immigrants who’d been here for two years or more to be “half a loaf.”

Now all we need is to hear that he was touching a female lawmaker in a way that made her uncomfortable during the call, or perhaps licking his finger and smudging his communications director’s glasses, and we’ve got the perfect Richardson anecdote.

Or if his hybrid SUV ran over Wen Ho Lee along the way…