Linda McMahon, WWE maven and former Small Business Administrator in the first Trump administration, is in the Senate hot seat today for the start of her confirmation hearings as the nominee to head the Department of Education.
This is another chance for Democrats to trot out the ‘hostage puppy’ card (a really clever phrase I just heard yesterday) [Beege notes: Y’all in the comments reminded me of National Lampoon’s Buy This Magazine].
There is a tactic that I call the “hostage puppy.” A group spends much or most of its time and money in horrible, counterproductive ways, but they are also keeping an extremely cute and vulnerable puppy alive. If anyone tries to cut their funding or shut them down, they wheel out…
— Perry E. Metzger (@perrymetzger) February 7, 2025
There is a tactic that I call the “hostage puppy.” A group spends much or most of its…
