Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing—I daren’t go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn’t lying in wait to get me to join a caucus.
Flashman and the Redskins, p.229, Pan Books edition, 1983.
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Truer words were never spoken.
To be fair, during the intervening century and a quarter, the affliction has spread across the globe. Canberra now has regular, localised outbreaks.
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