I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.
There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

