Have You No Shame? | Politics as Camouflage

Above Editorial cartoon with the caption “Will He Get By?” (c1919) by John Harmon Cassel, originally published in the New York Evening World, then reprinted in Cartoons Magazine. Public domain.

In the latter, it appeared opposite a text that read in part as follows: Party in this old sense is today just a carcass that party leaders stand up on its legs and pump hot air into. It is just camouflage (p. 654).

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Anon—

The opposite of progress is congress.

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Will Rogers—

With Congress—every time they make a joke, it’s a law. And every time they make a law it’s a joke.

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Mark Twain—

Suppose I am a crook, and suppose I am a congressman, but I repeat myself.

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Adolf Hitler—

I recognize no moral law in politics. Politics is a game, in which every sort of trick is permissible, and in which the rules are constantly being changed by the players to suit themselves.