My Name Is Miss Harriet Miers
Sung to the Gilbert & Sullivan tune
"My Name Is John Wellington Wells"
from "The Sorcerer"

My name is Miss Harriet Miers.
I'm the spinster attorney Bush hires
To defend him in cases
Where he makes silly faces
So scary his victim retires.

The trouble, of course, is his grin.
It hasn't done anyone in,
That we know of so far,
But recipients are
Often shocked when the darn thing kicks in.

One assumes it's not meant to offend,
That it's just an unfortunate bend
In his lips when he should
Be showing he could
Be sincere and not at wit's end.

Now he needs a new judge for The Court,
Not for or against an abort.
He claims they're no fun,
But I've never had one.
And I'm not the adventurous sort.

Dick Cheney set up his own rules,
That the Bushies should suffer no fools
Except for themselves,
Nefarious elves,
And executives dealing in fuels.

But my name isn't Cheney, it's Miers
And I'd let Bush decide who he hires,
But the oil stock he sold me
Never did what he told me –
Have you ever seen judges sue liars?

Music by Arthur Sullivan
Original Lyric by W. S. Gilbert
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
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10/5/05

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