"Princes in this case,

Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason"

- Samuel Daniel

COMMENT Every time Umno is drowning in sea of turmoil, it can count on Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to describe the water.

His team B cohorts fared better in the post-Semangat 46 debacle with Abdullah Ahmad Badawi eventually assuming premiership of the country, Musa Hitam flirting briefly with stewardship of Suhakam - that rubber stamp of a human rights organisation - and who can forget Rais Yatim who seems to be pilfering pages from the Joseph Goebbels book of public relations.

Razaleigh, of course, always nurtured the perception that he was the last honest man in Umno, a prince who reluctantly found himself consorting with thieves...