Neither side won with this deal, to which the one good alternative would be a time machine to take Sacramento's political class back five years and do it right then.

在这场预算争斗中没有赢家，而把五年前的政坛班子重新寻回再做出正确的决定不失为一个好办法。

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When he fired the gun, he shouted that he supported Roscoe Conkling's political machine.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He broke all his ties with the Conkling political machine.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

But there is also a more subtle story about the creation of a political machine.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

He also has full command of the most efficient White House political machine in recent memory.

ECONOMIST: American politics two years on

It cannot be easy competing with Mr Forbes's millions and Mr Bush's extraordinary political machine.

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