By turning City-boys into whipping-boys, politicians are desperately trying to divert public attention from their own failed economic policies.
He's a golden-boy politician staying at a very nice hotel.
Neither has Bal Thackeray's grandson, Aditya Thackeray, the boy-politician leading the protest.
It is bestowed because he was a politician — in this instance, a highly effective, bring-home-the-bacon, jobs-for-the-boys politician.
It is bestowed because he was a politician in this instance, a highly effective, bring-home-the-bacon, jobs-for-the-boys politician.
While Jack Kennedy thrived in the 1950s as a sex-crazed, drug-dependent, ailment-ridden party-boy politician, Bobby, the family's complicated sourpuss, hooked up with the redbaiting Joe McCarthy, then spun off as a crusading and corners-cutting scourge of labor corruption.
Ms. Angle's spokesman, Jerry Stacy, dismissed Mr. Raggio's unlikely endorsement as coming from one of the "good ol' boy career politicians [who] do not believe in Republican principles".
The problems began with the energy crisis in California, where Enron's outspoken defense of deregulation, even more than its electricity trading activities, made the company a favorite whipping boy of politicians and consumer advocates.
Professor Martin Kilson, the first black faculty member to receive tenure at Harvard (now an emeritus professor), wrote a widely circulated letter of complaint against Booker, in which he asserted, "He's functioning as an errand boy Black politician for conservative Republican power-class penetration of governing control of Black Newark".
That would be Mr. Brownback, 54, a farm boy turned politician who became the youthful face of the party's ascendant conservative wing by defying the party establishment to challenge a moderate Republican who had been appointed in 1996 to fill Mr. Dole's Senate seat.
