jobbery, pork barreling, pork barrel, inanity, legerdemain, hackery, demagoguery, gamesmanship, reductio ad absurdum, absurdness, boondoggles, chicanery, charades, doublespeak, jousting, buncombe, obstructionism, bulldogging, malfeasance, doublethink, underhandedness, sophistry, loquacity, illogic, foolery, blatancy, rascality, circumlocution, bossism, thievery, tawdriest, obfuscation, absurdity, partisanship, doubletalk, gimmickry, knavery, rube goldberg, jackassery, overreaching, skijoring, sidesaddle, featherbedding, cronyism, contortion, eggbeater, sneakiness, weaseling, dissembling, silliness, incommensurability, logical fallacy, lawmaking, finagling, dishonesty, hypocrisy, earmarks, sycophancy, disingenuity, flummery, ingratiation, cravenness, stalemates, hairsplitting, subterfuge, wheeling, oneupmanship, arcana, lumberjack, maneuvering, onanism, gag, foolishness, perversion, pols, disingenuousness, venality, judicial activism, bronco busting, unrealism, manipulation, spitball, piscatorial, caviling, sanctimoniousness, logorrhea, phrasal verb, trapshooting, journalese, hobbyhorse, shenanigan, syllogisms, rugged individualist, machination, politicking, incumbency, gotcha, prevaricator, huckstering, appropriator, triangulation, brigandage, infighting, bargaining, haggling, juggling, lobbying, manoeuvring, bickering, bribery, coercion, debating, deliberation, electioneering, harmonization, opposition, sniping, wrangling

exchange, spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl

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