One Possible Scenario

deadline Poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the November 7, 2005 edition of The Nation.

October 20, 2005

The gang of right-wing-dogma verifiers
Continues in its dissing of Ms. Miers,
And hints her views don't differ much from Breyer's.
The intellectual right says George Bush hires
Just hacks who act as ego fortifiers.
Then Bush, attacking all of his decriers,
Calls whingeing neocons, in Yiddish, shreiers,
And then calls Will and Brooks and Kristol liars.
So they call him a dope--no qualifiers.
O'Connor reconsiders, unretires.

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About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and has written the syndicated weekly column "Uncivil Liberties" since 1986. He has authored many, many books, including Tepper's Not Going Out and Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist. more...
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