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Hopeless senatoriables

05/13/07

Posted under Readers' Blog Posts, Senatorial Bets

AS I was listing my choices for the coming senatorial and local elections, I felt a sense of hopelessness. There are only two people on my list:

  • a very old man who should have retired but felt that no one can fill in his shoes yet; and
  • someone who dared not to be proclaimed by presidents he previously asked to resign (nevertheless, if he is not married to a megastar he would not have that “principle.”

All the rest were… enough to make me feel that I should start joining the queue to Canada, Australia, New Zealand or wherever. Among “senatoriables” there are turncoats on all sides, people with no principles, no platforms, and no political parties.

  • We have bright young lawyers who talk too much but work too little (if they did their homework, they could have impeached GMA)…
  • We have returning political veterans who never achieved anything substantial other than spark EDSA Dos by blocking the opening of the second envelope…
  • We have children and relatives of heroes… but we all have heroes’ blood in all of us…
  • We have millionaires who swindled banks, depositors and house buyers to accumulate wealth (sipag at tyaga… at maraming pagbalimbing)…
  • We have populists… they do not understand a single word they are harking (ever thought about the consequences of abolishing VAT or not paying our national debt)…
  • We have local government officials who came from provinces that are not known for their progress or unparalleled development…
  • We have political neophytes with no clear understanding of the legislative process…
  • We have glorious men in uniform whose greatness was shot down because of women in their lives (one was asked by his mother to stop a mutiny, the other was caught in his female friend’s house)…
  • We have action stars who brawl on national TV and it is not part of a movie or a show…
  • We have a dumb bar topnotcher who disgraces two universities with his un-common sense

(From INQUIRER podcast interview: OK, since I’m a lawyer, and I know the basic structure of our government. I’m running for senator, that’s the legislative branch. The case of Estrada belongs to the judicial branch, and there is a wall of separation between the two branches. Then, well as an aspiring senator I should not comment cases pending before courts. I will let the justices of the Sandiganbayan… objectively and impartially decide the case of president Joseph Estrada. But since, on a personal note, since Erap is my wedding sponsor, ninong ko, I wish him all the best, and my wish is for him to be acquitted.)

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2 Responses to “Hopeless senatoriables”

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    jay Says:

    The legislative branch is the place where big boys and girls throw their weight around. ever heard the cliche “Power corrupts, while Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely”

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    win Says:

    Dumb bar topnotcher.Dumb lawyer.Unprincipled.Philippine senate has no place for him.

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