Laura Bush's big disappointment

Texas Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison announced today that she will run for re-election to the U.S. Senate next year instead of challenging the current governor of Texas, Republican Rick Perry.

That means no opening in the U.S. Senate's Texas delegation. Sen. John Cornyn's term is up in 2008 but he's a Republican in his first term and unlikely to retire.

That means Laura Bush dragged herself all the way to the Middle East to have her picture taken for NOTHING! She traveled around to schools in bad neighborhoods and gave speeches about how to raise boys for NOTHING! She lost weight and had a wardrobe makeover for... well, that's never wasted.

Bummer, huh?

Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Dole have all the fun.

This could throw the First Lady into a mid-life crisis. Maybe a career change is on the horizon. When is David Letterman's contract up?

More likely: the president will nominate Sen. John Cornyn to a lifetime post on the U.S. Supreme Court. The things a president has to do these days to keep his wife from leaving him.


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