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  • It looks like he's doing everything he needs to to unseat Jacobsen, who's been a seatwarmer for far too long. ianfromthe46th

    Can Exalted Democratic Consultant Christian Sinderman Deliver in 2010? « PubliCola 2010

  • No quality manager will want to come in and be a seatwarmer for the eventual successor (unless his surname is Goh).

    jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2009

  • Over the past four years Medvedev has done nothing to dispel the impression that he is anything other than a useful seatwarmer, his time in the Kremlin a legalistic blip in an epoch of endless Putin rule.

    The Guardian World News Luke Harding 2011

  • It is obvious that Mr. Singh, the seatwarmer PM who dances to the tune set by Soniya Gandhi was making two statements, one for the international audience and one for the domestic crtics.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

  • However the two faced, seatwarmer known as a Puppet Prime Minister in Delhi made a statement that contradicted the official statements.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

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