QUESTION: How many Philippine senators does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: 24 plus their assistants.
I can only observe with distress why nothing ever gets resolved in this country. Malacañang says they will not attend Senate hearings unless the Senate publishes the rules.
How many debates will we have over radio and television? How many statements to the press will we hear? How many bombastic and self-righteous remarks are we away from resolving this?
Maybe I just have a simple mind, but if the rules are already there, then just publish it so we can get moving on these investigations. Isn’t that the simplest, most direct step to take? Can these supposedly learned and principled men for once just do things right?
Just publish the damn rules and get it over with! What is so difficult with that?
– Gus Cosio, Quezon City, Philippines (via e-mail)
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April 12th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
lulu pidal.. it is very easy for u to say that GMA is robbing the philippine coffer but can u prove it? npka dali lng tlga manira ng tao. do you think that the senators’ only job is to investigate? why dont they investigate the anomaly at the Phil. forrest? yung dating presidente ng Phil. Forrest ang korap talaga! ganyn batas b ang gusto nyo? may kinikilinga? u want to naildown GMA s mga hearsay accusations nyo habang c lozada pinoprotrektahan nyo? its very obvious namn n gngmit nila ang issue re s ZTE/NBN deal para lng magpgwapo s 2010 elections.
April 12th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Is this about the abuse of power? Is the Senate abusing its power to investigate suspicious government transactions by invoking its being a co-equal branch, under the guise of a purported legislation? Is the SC abusing its power by voting 9-6 in favor of the executive privilege of the presidency, not the president per se, in Neri vs. Senate? But then again, is GMA abusing the power of the presidency?
The use of power should be, in a moral sense, for an intended goal, i.e. good consequences. Its abuse, i.e. abnormal use, means that it is utilized for something else other than the intended goal it should have.
Perhaps, we can also refer to “people power”, which is the original meaning of democracy, i.e. demos means people, kratos means force or power. But some say “people power” is also being over-emphasized.
Conclusion: Our country is on a tailspin.
April 12th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
what about the hacienda luisita of cory? just ask the poor farmers what kind of deal they are being offered…
re political dynasty…we don’t have to go far…in makati, it’s binay country from local to national(congresswoman and councilor), in the senate, there is a sibling dynasty, in congress there are so many father-daughter-son tandem. if koko won, there would be another father-son tandem in the senate. its a good thing loy didn’t run anymore, mother-son.
how do you solve a problem like the political dynasty? these lawmakers would not pass a law banning it bec. they love the practice! they are so happy their whole families are being benefited, why bother ;-((
tatad brought this issue up and he incurred the ire of the guilty senators.
the people in the meantime suffers and pay for these lawbreakers.
the arroyos, children, in-laws, and other officials down to the local levels, not only congressmen, are guilty of this political dynasty practice.
re senate investigations….i have nothing against it, except that these boorish and ill-mannered senators ought to undergo a seminar re how to handle an investigation. i am for ferreting out the truth, but, they should not malign, and insult witnesses.
i have relatives and friends who have been in the senate and mind you, they have such horror stories to tell. one friend refused to be confirmed(a general), lest he suffer a heart attack.
it’s alright to know the truth, but, the gestapo methods they inflict on the witnesses and resource persons are just too much. you have to experience it to understand what i mean.
i am not pro-gma, i did not even vote for her,(that lucky b@#$& h, accdg to salceda)but i am for a senate who should abide by the rules too. the senate is the bastion of potential presidents, hence they should act like one, and not emulate the incumbent. ang senado na lang ang pag-asa natin, di ba?
April 12th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Law Makers and Rice Crisis
There has been an idea floated that NFA should adjust its prices a little bit up. To be strong and to sustain operation, and to be fair competition with the private sector, I think, yes. Normally many businesses out there actually, normally operate around 30-35% Gross Profit (GP). Maybe NFA should evolve near that figure whatever would be the final outcome of the prices of its rice. If masses can not afford the prices, I’m sure there must be trouble somewhere else. Like, probably wages are relatively, abnormally low?
April 12th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Hahaha! I can see TONGUES WRATH brain down to his feet. Unfair also to call this guy BOBO(peabrain) as there are many here in these blogroll.
Its been the Senate whose on the offensive all the time doing investigations here and there but did they formulate rules from these stupid investigations like tongues wrath??? What happen to the CHeaper Medicine Bill which is more important?
SC had decided against their favor and yet they are “childish” on SC’s decision?
Tongues Wrath believes the Senators are the sole “check & balance” govt agency, better & higher than the Executive & Judiciary. How can you be so BOBO man, hahaha!
How many weeks or months already are these senators investigating on this NBN issue and nothing has been put into the rule( or law, for tongues wrath to understand?)
Grandstanding is what it is, like what Jinggoy, Madrigal and Lacson is doing.
Well, the issue is dying already. You can bent your ire in the 2010 election when Arroyo finish her term.