My ten wins seven GMA will back Garcia. My ten wins five Garcia will become the next speaker. The keyword in this game is ‘ambition’, everybody has this, including Garcia. But GMA and JDV are more obsses. I think that this is not about election on 2010 but more about charter change. These three have one thing in common, they are advocates of charter change, they will do their darn best to make it happen, having seen from their previous attempts that this could be done without the senate, assuming that us citizens won’t make a quibble. But don’t worry, John Nery, we will. The reason why GMA will push for Garcia is because she knows that JDV is for JDV, while Garcia is for GMA. If JDV gets the speakership, it will give him too much political advantage to bagging the position of prime minister, that is, if they succeed on ramming the cha-cha into our throat. If Garcia gets the speakership, GMA will have the advantage. It does not help JDV any that he had a misunderstanding with FVR in the Pangasinan politics last election. So, my ten wins five Garcia gets the speakership. This is just pure specualtion on my part, but what is ten pesos nowadays?

An interesting development is currently happening. Now Garcia and his men wants to have a “secret balloting” for the election for the position of House Speakership.

As usual these “trapos” think that people cannot see through their ruse. We know secret balloting has always been fraught with vote manipulation and cheating. Now they are setting a stage for vote fraud even in the very house of Congress.

This will pave the way for the designs of party members of Kampi and their leader (who else?) for power extension and other selfish schemes.

Nakakahiya kayo, sabagay sanay na ang mga trapo sa pakapalan ng mukha.

Waaaah! I lost my ten. But that’s life, sometimes you lose talaga, sometimes you win. I guess I’ll just have to console myself by always remembering the wise saying that, “Between two evils, JDV is the lesser.”

Yeah Bert, seems that KAMPI does not have enough clout yet to warrant a Lower House takeover.

KAMPI’s maneuver for a secret balloting was too fancy and was immediately shot down, after all they were rushing to finish their “leadership issues” before the SONA starts, it would have been embarrassing for the Lower House if they didn’t.

Hmmm, the lesser of two evils … perhaps even for the Filipinos? I hope you’re right in that regard.

Well, it is sad, isn’t it..to settle for the lesser evil was a choice. Can’t we have better choices?

A choice between evils…you are left with evils pa rin. As a Filipino, I deserve better. Alam ba nila ang ibig sabihin nun?

Goodness is hard to come by and good people tend to shun politics.

Good people are made to look bad (usually through intrigues which the good shun like a plague) while bad people fake out that they are “skillfull” by stealing ideas and achievements of those who deserve it and junk the one who really has the actual skill and talent.

I remember a friend who applied for a grant whose approval would have to pass through government. It got positive reviews and was said to have a good possibility of being approved. Later they were rejected. The sad part came later when another group with practically a cloned proposal got their grant approved with practically the same concept that my friend had.

With this kind of bullshit going on in governance, the influential bad people gets the nod while the good is left by the wayside.

Is it a wonder why we live in such a hell of governance right now?

Remember the North Rail Transit study/proposal? The same proposal was submitted for FREE years ago by a European company which was disapproved. Recently the same study/proposal was made and approved but the proposal itself (yes just the proposal) had a large fee worth millions.

There are more out there but recording them would not fit in this column. Feel free to check out government protected anomalies which up to now are NOT resolved and which I do not expect to be resolved at all … aregluhan na lang.

This goes back all the way to the Marcos regime, through the presidencies (and presidential relatives) up to the present; from Luzon all the way to Mindanao (yes including the War syndicate and racket happening between the Moro rebels and government, so don’t wonder why Senator Trillanes did what he had to do.)