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 6th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
To Wilfredo…
GISING KABAYAN.., Like you, I dont like most in the senate. In particular, I dont like Lacson, Legarda, Joker, Pimentel, Gordon to name a few.. But just like college, it is not the professor we select, it the subject we take. If Gloria indeed have nothing to hide, why uses the clauses in legality to supress the investigation. let a free wheel investigation lost it steam if their are not guilty. Yes, most of the people dont trust the Senate, but they abhor more the Malacanang Palace… Well, just the same, Kudos to you.. You are one of the very rare species that still believe with Gloria. Cheers! Life is beautiful.
April 6th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Pangilinan insists that the Supreme Court “intervenes” with the internal ruling of the Senate? That they also also “supreme” in what they had decided?
The senator forgot the that also “check and balance” in the 3 branches should prevail. The Senate has no outright monopoly of the “Truth” and they can be subjected to corrections also. Pangilinan and the rest of the opposition senators are just licking their wounded bloated egos on the losing battle of their investigations
I wonder how would Gabby feel on his comment?
April 6th, 2008 at 7:31 am
no need for cerebral exercise here..just watch the clowns in ANC and you’ll know the kind of senators we are having….
senators with mouths firing faster than their minds..
April 6th, 2008 at 1:56 am
dear vox populi,
hindi ko alam kung papano ko umpisahan ang sasabihin ko.. at hindi ko rin alam kung saan ko ipapadala itong aking nararamdaman tungkol sa mga nangyayari sa ating bansa.. isa lng po ako sa mga OFW na mahilig magbasa sa mga nangyayari sa ating mahal na bayan.. lalong lalo na sa iyong column…
its around 1:40am here in my place and just open my PC to browse or read some news back home.. i found it disgusting about one of the news header which says: “JVD HIT FOR CLAIMING $100M CUT IN “08″ RICE IMPORTS”…
nakaka inis na ang mga nababasa ko/namin sa mga nangyayari sa ating mahal na bayan.. naiinis ako o dili kaya nagagalit sa mga tao na kung ituring ay mga matataas na tao sa ating lipunan…
ang mga taong kasangkot sa head line na yan ay puro sila wala sa tamang kaisipan.. lahat sila ay pare pareho ang hangad.. like JVD.. nawala na ang cridibilidad… ginagamit na lng niya ang kanyang pagka JOE D BOLA.. at ito naman sina hunghang na PUENTEVELLA at MITRA na yan, pare parehas lng kayo… nasisikmura niyo ang mga pinag gagawa niyo na ang inyong katungkulan ay ginagamit para makapagnakaw sa perang hindi niyo pinaghirapan… nasisikmura niyo na ang inyong ipinapakain sa inyong mga mahal sa buhay ay galing sa inyong hindi pinaghirapan…
sa iyo MITRA, sana lng tularan mo ang ugali ng iyong yumaong ama… balasubas ka.. hindi mo alam ang iyong pinagsasabi.. p… ina mo… at ikaw naman PUENTEVELLA… isa ka rin mapagsamantala… ikaw naman JOE D BOLA tigilan mo na ang iyong bunganga.. sobra sobra na ang ninakaw mo… hindi ka ba nadadala sa nangyari sa pamilya mo noong nasunog ang anak mo… p… ina mo rin… at kayong mga ibang tongressman at mga senadores… gawin niyo ang dapat na trabaho niyo ang paglingkuran ang mga mamamayan na nagtiwala sa inyo… alam na alam ng sambayanan na kayo rin ay pare parehong corrupt…
sana naman maawa kayo sa sarili niyo… at sana rin maisip niyo na ang sinasahod at ninanakaw niyo ay galing sa amin mga maliliit na nagbabayad sa tinatawag niyong tax… mga p…. ina niyo lahat…
April 6th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Philippines is considered one of the most corrupt nation in the world. How sad that this once promising nation has gone down to the hole. When will this country get back up and truly show that you are a great nation? It’s a shame.