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Month: January 2007

Habang maaga, magka-alaman na

Published by Ellen on January 24, 2007

Hindi ako magugulat kung sa kahuli-hulihan, si Ralph Recto ay sasama sa administration tiket.

Di ba sabi niya “neutral” siya? Kaya ang pag-usapan lang ay kung ano ang magandanag package para sa kanya. Nayari na nila si Armand Sanchez, ang gubernador na kanila rin. Ang balita ay inaayos rin ang kanyang kapatid na si Ricky para congressman.

Wala namang naniniwala na kaya tinanggal si Sanchez ay dahil sa bali-balitang jueteng lord. Alam naman nila ang kanyang balita kay Sanchez bago nila ginawang kandidato noong 2004 na eleksyon.

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Sotto and Oreta

Published by Ellen on January 24, 2007

Last Tuesday, Mandirigma/Fearless Warrior posted the information that former Senators Tito Sotto and Tessie Oreta have left LDP President Edgardo Angara and have joined Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco’s Nationalist People’s Coalition.

Monday night I was talking with Oreta and she was telling me her disappointment about being left out in the list of of possible senatorial candidates of the opposition in favor of her nephew, Noynoy Aquino. She was critical of the selection process of UNO.

She and Sotto had long severed political ties with Angara. She had always been loyal to Estrada. There was never any mention of her talks with Danding Cojuangco.

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Charge it to the people

Published by Ellen on January 23, 2007

Tomorrow, Gloria Arroyo leaves for Davos, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum.

She had done the preliminary work of impressing the Swiss government by having the Ombudsman file a case of bribery and graft against her favorite former justice secretary, Hernando Perez.

We are not sure if the Swiss government, which supplied the money trail of Perez’ mysterious $2 million deposit, would be able to see through the charade because the Ombudsman’s charges actually protect Perez from the higher and non-bailable charges of plunder and money laundering.

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Mike Arroyo’s defenders off to Germany

Published by Ellen on January 23, 2007

Mike Arroyo’s defenders are going on a junket to Germany, charge to the Filipino people. Objective:”The halls of this institution should be protected at all costs,” Rep. Eduardo Gullas said.

My foot!

This report by Wendell Vigilia in Malaya:

Congressmen will go out of their way in their search for the truth behind the alleged multi-million bank account the family of President Arroyo is hiding in Germany.

The House committee on ethics yesterday decided at the resumption of the hearing on the expulsion case filed against Rep. Allan Cayetano (NP, Taguig-Pateros) to send a five-man team to verify the alleged account in HypoVereinsbank in Munich.

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Dirty tricks laban kay Alan Cayetano

Published by Ellen on January 22, 2007

May kasabihan tayo na wala namang magtitiyaga magpukol na bato sa isang puno na hindi hitik ng bunga.

‘Yan ngayon ang nangyayari kay Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano ng Taguig-Pateros na kasama sa senatorial tiket ng United Opposition.

Itong mga nakaraang linggo, dalawang mga pekeng isyu ang ibinalibag kay Alan. Isa ay ang kanyang pagsolicit raw ng kontribusyon . Noong isang araw naman, may napadala ng pekeng fax message sa mga diyaryo na nagwi-withdraw na raw niya ang kanyang kandidatura sa pagka-senador dahil dadayain lang naman daw siya.

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PSG: Respect Gloria’s office

Published by Ellen on January 22, 2007

Hey, Hey, look at this admonition from Gloria Arroyo’s chief security guard:

THE Presidential Security Group today told President Arroyo’s critics to respect her office if they cannot respect the person.

PSG chief Col. Romeo Prestoza made the appeal in a radio interview two days after Arroyo was booed during the Il Divo concert at the Philippine International Convention Center.

“Regardless kung ano ang political affiliation mo, yung pananaw, dapat bigyan mo pa rin palagi ng paggalang ang opisina, hindi ang pagkatao ng Presidente,” he said.

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Military justice on trial

Published by Ellen on January 21, 2007

No wonder Trial Judge Advocate General Ukol Paglala was laughing nervously all throughout the court martial proceedings last Thursday in Camp Capinpin in Tanay of 28 officers linked to the February 2006 coup lot against Gloria Arroyo.

He was caught in a difficult situation. The lawyers of the accused officers were demanding a copy of the pre-trial investigation (PTI) report on the February incident which Esperon had said was the basis of his decision to try the officers for mutiny before a military tribunal.

Had Paglala released the PTI as due process requires, he would have exposed his superior, AFP chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, as not exactly telling the truth.

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The untouchable Chavit Singson

Published by Ellen on January 21, 2007

There’s no question that corrupt officials should be removed. Malacañang said there are no sacred cows. Really? Read this story by Norman Bordadora in the Inquirer.

THE Ombudsman has in its dockets at least nine criminal and administrative complaints against Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis “Chavit” Singson, according to a letter from the Special Prosecutor to the Senate.

They include two administrative cases for graft and a criminal complaint of plunder, Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa-Ignacio wrote in a letter he sent last December to Sen. Franklin Drilon, chair of the Senate finance committee.

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