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 5th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
While the forest is burning, the monkeys are amazed by the parrots in the banana trees. And doesn’t anyone disturb them, for it is I, not the fire, who will consume them.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:08 am
that’s why we are doomed as a nation, kahit sino maupo sa posisyon nilalamon g sistema! senador pa lang asal hari na, what more kun sila na ang nasa malacanang! Yan si pimentel tumatanda ng paurong, pareho sila ni guingona at cory! up to this moment, he’s still bitter kasi di sya ang na appoint na bise presidente! common old man… grow old gracefully!
April 5th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Who says they are learned and principled? ha ha ha, what a joke, di ba Erap?
April 5th, 2008 at 4:33 am
ganoon nga ba talaga ang trabajo ng mga senadores sa oposition? manglalait, fault finders? parang wala na silang ginawa kundi maninira sa incumbent government no? Di ba maganda sana kung nagtututlungan para mapaunlad ang bayan, samasamang nagtatrabajo…parang laging negative thinkers ang mga ito…parang di na nagkaroon ng positive thinking o appreciation ang mga ito. o hindi marunong tumingin sa mga mabuting bagay na nagawa ni Presidente…duling lang yata sila…o baka naman puro lang self-interests ang pinauunlad nila. okay lang sana kung nagkicriticise sa gobierno positively, pero ang iba ay may intention na sirain ang gobierno ni Gloria…gusto nila sila ang may glory..vainglory!!
April 4th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Oh yes, publishing again is an easy task. It’s only, if all was published already, why again? There have been other claims of executive privileges already and never before the publication has been mentioned as a hindrance to hearings, not by the claimants and not by palace or SC, only now when GMA would be direct hit by questions.
The ZTE deal involves corruption which is a crime, no kind of privilege can allow the cover-up of a crime. And that there is a lot of crimes to hide is the only imaginable reason for the palace to be so hellbent on blocking any investigation. Look at other countries, real democratic or not, how fast accused people, up to presidents and prime ministers, resign or are forced to resign, one has just to look back two days for an example.In RP, they would rather glue their ass to their seats than facing the truth. But still, they boast of being honorable, transparen and, of course 1000 percent democratic.