logrolling
Vote-trading among legislators
Logrolling is the trading of favors, especially among legislators who agree to support each other's bills: The infrastructure package passed through old-fashioned logrolling.
The term comes from the frontier practice of neighbors helping each other roll heavy logs—mutual assistance that expected reciprocation.
In publishing, logrolling refers to authors exchanging favorable reviews of each other's books.
Professional tree cutter
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- footworkSkilled lower-limb movement
- agilityQuickness and ease
dexterity · competition · contest · water · boots · timber · river · falls
Trading favors mutually
- horse-tradingShrewd, tough negotiating
- pork-barrelSelf-serving legislative spending
- earmarkDesignate for specific purpose
- deal-makingNegotiating agreements between parties
reciprocity · compromise · bipartisanship · coalition · lobbying · caucus · amendment · legislation
Loud deep sound
- sawmillLog-to-board factory
- lumberjackProfessional tree cutter
- forestryManaging wooded land
- fellingDowning standing timber
waterway · floating · downstream · pulpwood · millpond · sorting
Brief promotional descriptions
- endorsementsFormal declarations of support
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- criticsThose who evaluate work
- authorsCreators of written works
lumberjack
Professional tree cutter
agility · dexterity · competition · contest · water · boots · timber · river · falls · birling
backscratching
Trading favors mutually
- horse-tradingShrewd, tough negotiating
- pork-barrelSelf-serving legislative spending
- earmarkDesignate for specific purpose
deal-making · reciprocity · compromise · bipartisanship · coalition · lobbying · caucus · amendment · legislation · cronyism
boom
Loud deep sound
- sawmillLog-to-board factory
- lumberjackProfessional tree cutter
- forestryManaging wooded land
felling · waterway · floating · downstream · pulpwood · millpond · sorting
blurbs
Brief promotional descriptions
- endorsementsFormal declarations of support
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- criticsThose who evaluate work
- negotiationbargaining, bargain, negotiate, mediation, compromise
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- corruptioncorruption, graft, kickbacks, bribery, bribes
- Congresssenator, representative, senators, House, bill
- political dealsaccord, compromise, pact, treaty, bargaining
- political jargonfilibuster, gerrymandering, caucus, pork barrel, lame duck
logrollingfree vote
Uncoerced legislative ballot
statesmanship · accountability · political independence · reformism
logrollingobstructionism
Deliberate impeding of progress
going it alone · stonewalling · unilateralism · non-cooperation · gridlock
log, rolling, logging, logger, logjam, loggerhead, loggerheads, logroller, logroll