His allies suspect a plot to silence an awkward figure and to turn COSATU into a lapdog of the ruling party.
In response, Mr Obama has softened his opposition to offshore drilling, while denouncing Mr McCain as a lapdog of the oil industry who will do little to bring down prices.Voters are certainly up in arms about the cost of oil.
The term has caught on to an extent that eluded the president's previous array of adjectives for people with pro-American leanings: "lackeys" or "tin soldiers" or, in the case of one Mexican president, a "lapdog of the empire".
"Artists are finding the only way to achieve any financial safety is to become a lapdog of the great corporations," said the author and media critic Douglas Rushkoff, "just like the great painters did in the Renaissance, when it became impossible to sustain oneself as an artist without a patron".
Apart from the liberal intelligentsia, who detest Putin's "managed democracy", and xenophobic extremists, for whom all evil in Russia comes from illegal migrants while Putin is a lapdog of the west, the bulk of society would happily go along with whomever Putin considers appropriate.
After all, Breitbart, like every other site that caters to the populist Republican base, is a faithful lapdog of the N.R.A.
Allen is regarded as a political lapdog of the Democratic Party establishment.
Additionally, German premiere feminist Alice Schwarzer has been in an ongoing beef with Bushido, politicians have sued him over lyrics that sounded like death threats and rapper Kay One was temporarily under police protection after denouncing his former mentor as a "mafia puppet" and "lapdog of the Abou Chaker clan".
Germany's premiere feminist Alice Schwarzer has been in an ongoing beef with Bushido, politicians have sued him over lyrics that sounded like death threats, and rapper Kay One was temporarily under police protection after denouncing his former mentor as a "mafia puppet" and "lapdog of the Abou Chaker clan".
The blindness of our energy policy has caused us to become the lapdog of Saudi Arabia.
