"congressional meat-puppet"..........!

[Dave Wilton]

"Meat puppet" is very common, meaning a person who mindlessly parrots the
talking points of someone else. (Different from a "sock puppet," which is an
imaginary internet persona one invents to lend support to your own views.)

I find only six googlits for "congressional meat puppet," three of which are
links to the Holland article. So this doesn't appear to be a term of art,
just an adjective tacked on to a common noun phrase.


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Alison Murie
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Subject: "congressional meat-puppet"..........!

In an article on various health care proposals before congress, Josh
Holland uses the expression "congressional meat-puppet,"  a new one on
me.  Is this a known expression?
AM

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