(2005-10-03) — A clearly disappointed President George Bush this morning announced that he had failed to locate a total stranger to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and was forced to settle for someone he knows and trusts.
In a news conference to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers, 60, as an associate justice on the high court, Mr. Bush admitted, “I don’t get out much, and I don’t personally know very many total strangers. So, I had to settle for someone whose views, personality, intellectual abilities and work habits were familiar to me. I hope the American people will eventually find it in their hearts to forgive me.”
As news broke of this new setback for the Bush White House, the president’s popularity rating plunged into the single digits and despondent Republican lawmakers wondered if their party could manage to “keep the doors open and the lights on” until the 2006 mid-term elections.
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