quockerwodger

a rare 19th-century term referring to a wooden toy figure that jerks or moves when its strings are pulled. by extension, it can also describe a politician or person who appears to be controlled entirely by someone else.

the senator's blatant lack of independence made him seem like nothing more than a quockerwodger for the corporate lobbyists.

Quockerwodger

A quockerwodger was a type of wooden puppet. In politics, a quockerwodger was a politician acting on the instructions of an influential third party, rather than properly representing their constituents.

Many of the politicians today can be classified as quockerwodgers and as a result our country is floundering.

Quockerwodger

1.) a wooden puppet.
2.) (pol.) a type of politician controlled by an influential third party, rather than acting on the instructions of the people they represent.

1.) “Oy’ Sam! Come take a look at this Quockerwodger I bought off the Internet!”
2.) There are so many quockerwodger politicians in the early 21st century, that there’s not enough tags to represent or even list them all. But if one knows where to look, & to follow the $$$, they’ll be able to do their own research into how much control these people have over this whole world.