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)
April 8th, 2008 at 11:04 am
I believe the decision of the SC is right and just. Just imagine if SC did not make that decision, the senate investigation will not be called “circus” anymore. It will be called GRAND CARNIVAL!
April 8th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Luli Pidal,
Why the Senators are putting too much attention on Gloria Arroyo? ITS FOR POLITICAL GAIN, Its for their CAREERS as politician and not for you, pogito, gloria lavandera and other oppositions admirers.
Even if PGMA steps down in 2010, there will still be unrest on corruption issues as we have loose and shallow laws on punishing the ill doers. It all boils down on who is on whose side.
Filipinos naturally tends to pull down each other on the way up. TALANGKA!
April 8th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Jang-Jang says: “The senator forgot the that also ‘check and balance’ in the 3 branches should prevail.”
Lol. I would have called this guy a moron but it would be unfair to all the stupid people.
Precisely that’s what the Senate was doing - exercising checks and balance! And that’s what the a-holes in Supreme Court prevented.
*****
Ditto to this nothing-between-the-ears Ronald whose banana cue logic asks for the cost the Senate “wasted” on ZTE. Do your family a favor - get an education!
How much did the Senate save you when this ZTE-NBN ripoff was nipped? P13.5 Billion ONLY!
I like reading Gloria’s fanatics’ comments. Very revealing indeed. Hahahaha!
April 8th, 2008 at 4:10 am
you elected dumb and supid senators.
all of you deserve what you got .
April 8th, 2008 at 1:56 am
kaya nga ang pagbabago ay nasa ating mga sagradong boto pa rin di ba? bakit kayo gigil na gigil sa mga imbestigasyon ng senado samantalang masa rin ang naglagay sa kanila sa kanilang mga puwesto…kung sakali man na puro grandstanding at useless investigation lamang ang kanilang ginagawa ay may bahagi rin tayo sa pagkakamaling iyon…ang bumoto ng tunay na lider.
ang sagot lamang sa mga pagtatanong tungkol sa legislation power at jurisdiction ng senate ay mamili tayo ng karapat-dapat na senador…hindi popular hindi sikat, pero hanggang walang tunay na reporma sa Comelec at walang moral recovery siguro patuloy tayo na magkakaroon ng lito lapid, bong revilla, jinggoy estrada, jamby madrigal, miriam santiago sa senado…
mas malala nga ang problema kung useless investigation ang isyu sa Lower House kasi “rainbow coalition” ang pagsasamantala nila sa kanilang mga constituents..meaning sama sama sila sa paggawa at pagpasa ng mga batas upang lalong mapangalagaan ang kanilang interes, dynasty at lalong magpayaman sa puwesto.
ang tanging solution lang sa mga suliraning ng ating bansa ay ang matalinong pagboto sa 2010, bumoto kayo at makibahagi para hindi lang tayo puna at batikos.
God bless the Philippines