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He went after “pusillanimous pussyfooters” and “vicars of vacillation” and “the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.”
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If ever there was a bunch of pussilanimous pussyfooters it's the Congressional Democrats.
Antiwar Leader Tries To Light Fire Under Dems Over Iraq 2009
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The idea is to go on tv and be brief, STRONG and DEFIANT --- and basically put these pusillanimous pussyfooters in their place.
Elizabeth Edwards Writes To Slate's John Dickerson: No, We Aren't Exploiting My Cancer 2009
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When this bilious Blagojevich predecessor attacked the media, as crooked and vile as he was, at least his gems were often studded with piquantly alliterative epithets, like: "nattering nabobs of negativism," "pusillanimous pussyfooters", and "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history," courtesy of White House speech crafters Pat Buchanan and William Safire.
Erica Heller: Palin Blasts Bloggers. Spiro Agnew Redux? 2009
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And when he wanted blood, he summoned Buchanan, the man who contributed "pusillanimous pussyfooters" to Spiro Agnew's assault on liberals in the media.
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Not your usual pussyfooters and farter-arounders or candidates who whine about having no money or give up because they've been told there is no money.
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Lately he has employed a lot of tortured logic to explain away the missteps of the Bush administration, but then, he had good training - he was on staff in the Nixon White House and supplied Vice President Spiro Agnew with some of the more memorable lines in the early 1970's when the veep lashed out at liberals as "nattering nabobs of negativism" and "pusilanimous pussyfooters."
November 2004 2004
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When he attacked the media, as crooked and vile as he was, at least his gems were often studded with piquantly alliterative epithets, like: "nattering nabobs of negativism," "pusillanimous pussyfooters", and "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history," courtesy of White House speech writers Pat Buchanan and William Sapphire.
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No, compared to our early days, modern politicians are pantywaists, pansies, and pussyfooters.
NewsByUs Don Boys 2008
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The grand old pussyfooters had their chance and they blew it royally. "
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