PEOPLE are so angry — and that’s what scares me about the elections. My mom always told me nothing good ever came out of anger. I don’t understand who came up with the opposition tagline “Plan Co Revolt,” but it certainly doesn’t bode well for the future if those angry oppositionists win most of the Senate seats up for grabs. We’ll have rallies everyday, no law will be passed in the Senate because they’d want to do endless investigations and privilege speeches, they’d invade the evening news with endless complaints. All the more that the Senate will be useless as an institution.
On May 14, let’s vote with sobriety and good sense. Let’s review the candidates’ records in legislation — if they passed good laws, or if they did zilch.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:25 am
Pian,
Ha ha, I reserve the right to hold my electoral choices in secrecy. Let’s just say some of my Senate choices are not the “popular or famous” ones; and even then I was clutching at straws. The list was not really filled up.
In any case, the analysis I have been doing for years now are based also in the historical experiences we had especially during the Marcos regime.
For several years I had predicted that the Gloria administration was slowly creeping towards a try at dictatorship as her administration’s actions were geared towards roughly the same strategies of Marcos to attain dictatorial rule only with a different color and twist.
Right now, I believe that Constitutional Change will still be pushed via 3rd parties and when the opportunity is ripe, the administration will support this in every way they can.
Other predictions would be the increasing propaganda regarding “growing leftist influence” to justify cracking down all that oppose the Gloria administration and labeling everyone including their Rightist enemies as colluding with the leftist.
Continuous harping on the victory by the administration in the local level will also be promoted in order to save face and rally allies who are starting to become afraid of the anti-administration sentiment.
Attempts will be done shortly on or before 2010 for a last hurrah in extending her administration’s rule. The military and the police will increasingly be involved in this as Gloria is easily tempted to extend her term.
The non Kampi political allies of the President will be eased out or kicked out if they can. What happened to Joe de Venecia is just a manifestation of their intentions but actually not yet the real thing. This will also happen to other lawmakers who thought they are allied to the administration but actually are in danger of being booted out if they are not Kampi.
This is just a sample of events that would likely come.
May 26th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
KABABAYAN
Well if they will pursue it again I think they should have learned that lesson by now, that it’s bound to fail. Who did you vote for anyway, being a principled man as you made me perceive?
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 am
With the shenanigans that Gloria has done in the recent past, I doubt if she is considered the lesser evil. Only now did Bunye tell Mike Velarde that they would still pursue the Charter Change initiative. They once again would want to open the ugly possibility of an unlimited term for Presidency or Prime Ministership.
Accepting Gloria as a lesser evil while there are no one else around? That would simply give her room to manuever to change the Constitution for unlimited term to install herself in one of the top positions. The possibility for someone to replace her would be moot as she makes a modified “constitution” power grab.
If it takes an unknown quantity or person to replace someone who twists the law for an unlimited term and a penchant for dictatorial tendencies, I would take that alternative anytime. It is not a question of personality; even leadership is only secondary.
The primary thing that a President must have is to have high moral standards, integrity, honesty, love of freedom and democracy, transparency and accountability; all of this are found wanting from the one presently holding the reins of power.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:05 am
embalsamador
mas ok na siguro yun may sumisilip sa mga katiwalian kaysa tatameme ka na lang sa isang tabi at pinagnanakawan ka na pala.
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Yep! The reason Gloria Arroyo, Et al. Want the congress aboless so that lahat ng corruption ginagawa nila will be swipe under the rugs! when that happen lahat tayo sa kangkunga pupolotin.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:53 pm
mightywarrior
sawa na ako sa mga pangakong bibigyan tayo ng pabahay , gaganda ang buhay kaya itanim sya, mapapaunlad ang mga probinsya at iba pang pa eklat. sorry pero DI AKO MANINIWALA sa inyo. sa laki ng nagastos nyo sa print at broadcast media, sigurado gagatasan ang senado. maryusep!
basta ako ALAN CAYETANO sure na sa senado! isama nyo na rin ang ibang taga GO.
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Fr: Salina.
Mighty warrior.
Eh, Ano pa nga ba! sa laking gastos nila saan naman nila kukunin iyan kong hindi sa taxespayer’s. Its the filipino people the one going to suffer because its the taxespayer’s money they’re using.