carpetbaggers

• And if he discovered you were a Union man—or, worse yet, a Union veteran—he'd lay into his Northern aggression, carpetbaggers, race mixers, and scoundrels speech. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2005
• It underwent the usual infestation by carpetbaggers, the usual racial antagonisms and incidents, the occupation by federal troops (1868 to 1875), and the other strains and tensions of Reconstruction, but endured them with evidently more than usual easiness, and proceeded on its course much as before. —  Coughlan, Robert - Private World of William Faulkner
• Leinster, Munster, Ulster and Connaught, the four provinces of Ireland, had been marked out for settlement by Henry the Eighth and Queen Elizabeth, and hordes of English "carpetbaggers" and soldiers were turned loose on the island to rob, burn and destroy the natives. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Shakspere, by Colonel John A. Joyce
• They want Spitzer-clones -- armed with bullwhips and billy-clubs -- posted in every boardroom, in every penthouse, on every private jet; breathing down the necks of every CEO, every CFO, and every dodgy, derivatives-peddling scam-artist until the financial typhoon subsides and the culprits, cutthroats and carpetbaggers are dragged in leg-irons to Guantanamo for a few brief dunks on Dick Cheney's waterboard. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
• People who offer a quick fix are carpetbaggers, and nothing more from sacramento on Jan 31st, 2009, 22: 39 pm —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed

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