Its really just inside the beltway back-scratching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolfson: I'm Not Sure That Joe Andrew Is "Actually From Indiana"] Reference

He doesn't quite fit in with the back-scratching ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brown Stirs it up For the LibDems] Reference

Mutual back-scratching is not an appropriate response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: America After Bush] Reference

Is it all just back-scratching and ass-kissing in your mind?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michelle Obama Quotes Hillary's "18 Million Cracks In Glass Ceiling" Line] Reference

What, you may well ask, is wrong with bit of back-scratching?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancing With Children of the Stars: Celeb Spawn Swarm My Social Orbit] Reference

It's back-scratching politics as usual in Washington regardless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible of Impeachment: If Not Now, When?] Reference

Last week's prime minister's questions was all cosy back-scratching.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Cameron is out of his tree | Simon Hoggart's sketch] Reference

In other words, just the usual horse-trading, log-rolling and back-scratching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Cutting the Stimulus] Reference

They suggest old-fashioned back-scratching below even current Beltway standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends of Barack] Reference

This corruption and back-scratching is just another example of the old politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another superdelegate for Obama] Reference

Conferences nominate and sponsor voters, whose history of back-scratching is evident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian Frederick: Confessions of a Harris Poll Voter] Reference

We must put a stop to the cronyism and back-scratching that have paralyzed our country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference

There's nothing like a towel that dries and gives a good back-scratching at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple things...] Reference

Can anyone truly complain about Wikipedia's credibility after this type of back-scratching?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Thill: Jonah Goldberg's Logic Loops Will Kill the LA Times] Reference

Like back-scratching, shaving is an act much more easily performed on others than on oneself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men’s Recovery Project | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

This intricate back-scratching network aside, the malaise can be traced to money, or lack of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malaise in Pakistan team can be traced to money, or the lack of it] Reference

Bush's action provides no end to the mutual back-scratching for that fellowship of ex-presidents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanley Kutler: Bush's 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy] Reference

In a town full of back-scratching, back-room deal brokers, I say we don't need another team player.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Ingram: Post-Implosion Politics] Reference

I mean i hope in the midst of all the unavoidable back-scratching that someone loves someone's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plane crash] Reference

So, if all goes to plan the rest of January is going to be a month of quiet back-scratching and planning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

He is the embodiment of the old guard pork-laden, back-scratching politics that was rejected last Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bull Moose] Reference

Ergo, they profit by some back-scratching in return (assuming, of course, that they are not outright a front group).    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist] Reference

In any event, the more discretion the city has, the greater the opportunity for cronyism and mutual back-scratching.    From Wordnik.com.  [An apartment bunker in your neighborhood? If it's "delightful." (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference

They look forward to a long career of mutual back-scratching, even if the fingernails are occasionally a little sharp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belmont Club » Double Down] Reference

Do you disregard them as shady back-scratching or do you see them as genuine expressions of appreciation for a book or author?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Art of Blurb] Reference

Until the mutual back-scratching relationship between government and big business is severed, most solutions will be cosmetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Few More Thoughts on Citizen’s United] Reference

They could be expressing the back-scratching, horse-trading resentment that is another repulsive feature of our political culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repenting Silence: The Scapegoating of Van Jones] Reference

Not surprisingly, this leads to an enormous amount of mutual back-scratching and 'you plug mine and I'll plug yours' type of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference

It has the lot: cronyism, back-scratching, destructive micromanaging by Gordon Brown and an unimaginably large loss of public money.    From Wordnik.com.  [The cost of Brown's meddling] Reference

Either way, there seems to be a fair amount of back-scratching between a U.S. Senator and a lobbyist with business before the Senator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: A tale of two debts(I): Introduction] Reference

It's time to give the voice of our culture back to the people, not a hand-picked few based on favoritism and back-scratching politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharers and competitors] Reference

Writing at Townhall.com, Romney takes on McCain-Feingold: Washington's back-scratching political class apparently sees it differently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mitt Romney on Campaign Finance Reform] Reference

The Mayor Logan-like levels of corruption and back-scratching which he has instigated make it seem to em that he can't be elected out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livingstone Misuses Taxpayers' Money... Again] Reference

Being a prosperous and successful great power today requires more than just trade, tribute and mutual back-scratching among sovereigns.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Learns The Power Play] Reference

On the other side are younger, first - and second-term Democrats who won their seats off GOP scandals and who have no interest in sacrificing them at the back-scratching altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelosi's Pork Problem] Reference

Beckenbauer, bemoaned a back-scratching deal which will see SA supporting Brazil's 2010 bid, former president Nelson Mandela was trying to weave his ` Madiba Magic 'one more time.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference