| The Bush stooges and their lackeys in the media know that they are hanging by a tenuous thread that is unraveling ever faster and faster. |
| He has the odd misfortune of repeatedly hiring party stooges for key assignments who stab him in the back as soon as they leave his employ. |
| Without local stooges to stand between them and the people, they'll have to do all the oppressing themselves. |
| Today was the first time we'd ever been alone together when one of your stooges wasn't listening in. |
| Debate was kept to a minimum and opponents of the leaders' strategy were ridiculed or heckled by their stooges in the audience. |
| Nor does sympathy for what Americans are going through make us capitalist lackeys, stooges of Bush and Blair, or enemies of the Arab world. |
