Rubber Stamp
El Rushbo found a good perspective. Bush appoints Rice to be Secretary of State. "Oh no! She'll just be a rubber stamp!" Bush appoints Porter Goss to run and fix the CIA. "Oh no! He'll just be a rubber stamp!" Bush (and others) hold up on the 9/11 reforms, and now it's "Oh no! Bush isn't rubber stamping the recommendations!"
Dissent for me, but not for thee!