Good liars are hard to find.
No matter how wrong-headed Colin Powell turned out to be, he was once held up as something of a paragon, one of the “first of” in several ways. There has always been a progressive streak in a lot of these “compassionate” RINOs, going back to Teddy Roosevelt and his “Bull Moose” party, and perhaps even much further. What few Republicans remained in elective office in the years of the New Deal and FDR, were almost all of the “progressive” variety, and they voted almost as enthusiastically for the whole package advocated by the FDR “brain trust” as the Southern Democrats.
Strange bedfellows, even back then.
“No. I did not attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter saying that I approved it.” Mark Twain
Not in DC. The place is "et up" with them especially here
and here