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 4th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
As I observed senate only use what they said it is an aid for legislation to prosecute the president ang her family about corruption which they don’t have any evidence at all, that is why until now they don’t put in closure their investigation to let the people got angry and have another people power to toppled the current administration. I think if they are really educated by the data they already gathered they could compose bills to make law not to repeat the same mistake on what they are investigating now. I wonder if they have education to do that or they are just afraid that the law they will create will be used against them once they have been elected on the position they dream on 2010. They are just wasting taxpayer money…..
April 4th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Mahirap matawag sa Senado, bukod sa wala ngang rules na nakapublish… eh puro mga self-serving agenda ng karamihan ang topic… Eh yung namang public hearings na ginagawa nila eh ‘in aid of legislation’… Wala namang batas na ginagawa galing dun sa mga imbestigasyong ito… Ang hirap pa eh, pag akma sa gusto nila yung sinasabi ng supposedly witness kahit walang basehan eh gagamitin ng ebidensya… Pag di naman tugma sa gusto nila eh sasabihin na sinungaling yung witness… Eh wala palang pinagkaiba sa mga pulis patola mga senador natin… Maraming batas na kailangan ang bansa natin… Malaki na rin ang nagagastos sa mga imbestigasyon na yan… Sana naman, kung ang nais ng mga Senador na magimbestiga na lang sila… Dapat mag-PNP na lang sila o NBI… Nakakahiya naman siguro sa aming nagbabayad ng buwis na kung ayaw gawin ng mga Senador ang trabaho nila, eh walang napuntahan ang pinapapasweldo sa kanila…
April 4th, 2008 at 5:21 am
My Japanese friends say that the most difficult words for filipinos to say are the words “I am sorry”. Filipinos would always find an excuse for any fault that he has committed.
Take the case of Senator Pimentel who accused DA Secretary Yap of having a father in law involved in rice trading which of course was immediately denied and disproven by the honorable secretary.
Did the unhonorable Senator Pimentel offer any apologies for his wrong and unreliable information?
I got from a reliable source that Senator Pimentel has colon cancer and is a gay.
I wish the senator could prove this information inaccurate.
If my information was not correct at least this early, I am offering my apologies and say “I am sorry”.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:18 am
The problem is that once the Senate publishes its rules for inquiry, it’s as if it already admitted the veracity of the bickering of the Palace.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 pm
It’s hard to print a non-existent tabulation of rules.
Rambo-style shooting; you empty the clip and hope you hit something. Senate’s just buying time because frankly, they can’t make laws that truly help Filipinos without first attending to their personal needs.
We need leaders who take a little more responsibility and a little less credit for their work.