badgers
Badger is the common name for any animal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: the same mammal family as ferrets, weasels, otters, and several other types of carnivore. There are 9 species of badger, in three subfamilies: Melinae (the Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae, (the Ratel or honey badger), and Taxidinae (the American badger).
Badger is also a village and civil parish in the Bridgnorth district of Shropshire, England, about six miles north-east of Bridgnorth. The parish had a population of 134 according to the 2001 census.
nixon as badger
"He had the fighting instincts of a badger trapped by hounds. The badger will roll over on its back and emit a smell of death, which confuses the dogs and lures them in for the traditional ripping and tearing action. But it is usually the badger who does the ripping and tearing. It is a beast that fights best on its back: rolling under the throat of the enemy and seizing it by the head with all four claws.
That was Nixon's style--and if you forgot, he would kill you as a lesson to the others. Badgers don't fight fair, bubba. That's why God made dachshunds." - Hunter S. Thompson