Responding to Ron Nescafe

Geez. political hack noun a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends [syn: machine politician] WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. machine cog Examples: Andrew Sharp, who is not registered to vote in the 49th Ward. Another example: Soviet machine cog, some cogs were a lot higher level and more powerful than others, but all of them effected and enabled and sustained the Soviet machine. The apparatchiks were what ensured the Soviet system's continuation...