Senator Panfilo Lacson told ANC after Juan Ponce-Enrile was sworn in as senate president after Manny Villar resigned, that “Nothing is spontaneous here in the Senate. These things are planned.”
To recall, Villar, who was re-elected as senator in 2007 under the Genuine Opposition ticket, was installed as senate president last July with a vote of 15-7 by what was described as a “mongrel” majority that included all of Malacañang allies. Given that kind of support base, Villar has been doing a delicate balancing act between Malacañang’s interest and the public’s expectation for the Senate to do a fiscalizing role to the Arroyo administration’s brazen violations of the Constitution.
Although initiated by four opposition senators – Lacson, Loren Legarda, Mar Roxas and Jamby Madrigal, Villar’s ouster last Monday was made possible when the very same people who were his allies just more than a year ago abandoned him.
It should not really be a surprise to Villar having done the same to President Joseph Estrada in 2001 when he railroaded the impeachment process against the elected president who made it possible for him to be speaker of the House of Representatives.
It’s about ambition and quest for power.
It’s known that senators who have presidential ambitions – Lacson, Legarda, Roxas – feel the senate presidency gives Villar an advantage over them and the earlier he is removed from that position, the better for them. The C-5 double funding controversy gave them a “cause” on which to anchor their efforts to level the playing field.
So much about Legarda’s “Villar has lost the moral ascendancy”. What about Enrile’s Port Irene?
A coup insider said the renewed campaign to oust Villar intensified during the break period from Oct. 9 to Nov. 9.
The four thought that if they field Pimentel whom they put up against Villar last year, they couldn’t get the administration senators. They would only be able to get Senators Rodolfo Biazon and Benigno Aquino, Jr., both of the Liberal Party.They needed 13 votes.
To get the administration allies, it became a choice between Enrile and Sen. Edgardo Angara. They calculated that if you put up Enrile, you’ll get his protege, Sen. Gregorio Honasan. There was no problem convincing Senators Richard Gordon. Ramon Revilla, Jr. Miguel Zubiri , Lito Lapid and Angara for an Enrile senate presidency..
It was easy to convince Biazon, who belongs to the same political party with Roxas and is a Cavalier (graduate of the Philippine Military Academy) like Lacson and Honasan.
With 11 senators on their side last week, the anti-Villar group talked with Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, who said he gave his vote to Enrile because the Arroyo ally is a partymate in the Partido ng Masang Pilipino.
Sen. Chiz Escudero was the clinching vote against Villar.
Six senators abstained : Joker Arroyo, Aquino, Alan Peter Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Francis Pangilinan, and Pimentel.
The Cayetanos are Villar partymates. Arroyo and Pangilinan are Villar’s Wednesday Club colleague. Noynoy Aquino can’t support his father’s martial Law jailor. Pimentel could not forget having been a victim of “dagdag-bawas” by Enrile many elections ago.
Sen. Miriam Santiago was absent and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV couldn’t vote as he is still in detention. Trillanes said even if he was allowed to vote, he would not have voted for Enrile. He thinks that the acceptable alternative to Villar is Pimentel.
With the Ombudsman and the House of Representative under the heavy influence of Arroyo, the public depends on the Senate to stand up to Malacañang on three important issues: Charter Change, Blue Ribbon committee investigations, and the choosing of seven Supreme Court justices next year.
A Senate source said even in an Enrile senate presidency, charter change has no chance in the Senate.
Gordon is expected to replace Alan Cayetano as Blue Ribbon committee chair. Although there are some who think there were times Cayetano was not hard enough in the investigations, I find his conduct of the NBN/ZTE and re-opening of the fertilizer scam inquiries satisfactory. Will Gordon be unsparing of Malacañang allies in investigating corruption?
Gordon has not been shy with his presidential ambitions. But given the survey figures, he is expected to run for re-election in 2010. So are Enrile, Revilla, Lapid, Santiago. The 2007 senatorial election results showed that being identified with Gloria Arroyo is a political suicide. Just look at what happened to Ralph Recto, Mike Defensor and Prospero Pichay.
Maybe Revilla and Lapid will continue to be loyal to Arroyo. But she cannot be sure of Gordon, Enrile and Santiago.
The latest senate coup has shown how unreliable “loyalty” is in the Philippine politics. Arroyo must be having nightmares.
Just as i suspected, that the Senators want the Status Quo, and that includes the Porks and plenty of them, the Prime T.V. shows aka the Senate Inquiries and the exclusives club where only the familiar members may join, again and again. And there is no other that can make all these possible but the old sneakiest of them all, JPE, the King Maker, the King “Unmaker”..”the king is dead, long live the King”.
And in the Parliamentary System, these things are not to be had.
Chiz Escudero was the one who initiated the investigation of Port Irene car smuggling owned by Enrile. As a result, Committee being headed by Chiz was taken away from him.
“The latest senate coup has shown how unreliable “loyalty” is in the Philippine politics. Arroyo must be having nightmares.”
unreliable ‘loyalty’ is not a new feature in our political life. so, what is there for gloria to learn? but i agree that she is having nightmares in identifying who’s who in her side. nakakapraning nga yan….
Senator Antonio “Sonny” F. Trillanes IV on the new Senate leadership
Had Sen. Trillanes be allowed to perform his duties at the Senate, things would have been different. The Senate and country has lost a good, patriotic legislator. Days, months, years are passing by without utilizing Trillanes’ talents and people’s mandate.
Subok na si Sonny Trillanes. Walang dudang siya lang ang matino! At saka siyempre, si Senator Pimentel despite his weaknesses!!!
With his present “exalted” position in the Senate, I pray the same that Senator Trillanes has said, “To Senator Enrile’s credit, historically, he has shown that he can be a maverick and I only hope that this particular character of his would prevail over traditional politics as he leads the Senate.”
Tama si Senator Trillanes diyan. Pag gusto ni Uncle Johnny, magagawa niya. Kayang-kaya niya. In fact, noong balak ni Cory na ibenta ang mga patrimonies ng Pilipinas sa Japan, siya ang tumulong para ma-stop iyon. Sabit lang iyong iba. Hindi siya nakinabang doon sa totoo lang. Ginawa lang niya ang dapat niyang gawin para sa bansa niya.
Sabi ko nga, sana naman hindi siya naging Senate President para maging butler lang ni Gloria Dorobo na wala naman sa kalingkingan niya!
komo’t mahilig din lang ang Senado sa upside-down-inside-out political calisthenics na wala namang matinong direksyon, maraming Pinoy ang mas matutuwa, kumpara sa maiinis, kung si Lito Lapid o si Bong Revilla na lang ang ginawang Senate President.
Lapid, or Revilla, kahit sino sa dalawa, at least dito sa Ellenville, inaasahang merong pagkakaisa—-sa tawanan.
Zen2,
Lapid o Revilla as Senate President? Utang na Loob , Sunugin niyo na lang ang Pilipinas !
Talagang hindi magkakaisa ang opposition sa 2010.
Isa lang ang dapat gawin ,dapat ma engine tune-up na ang JEEP ni ERAP, palitan na ng 4 na gulong, grasahan na ang pang-ilalim , ayusin ang kaha, at pinturahan. , kailangan maayos na yan sa 2010, kasi maraming sasakay diyan .
Lito Lapid for Senate president? Comm’on! gimme a break.Can anyone say that Lito Lapid has displayed any sense of knowing how to respond adversity? Nope! All I know that in Pampanga, the entire village are missing their idiot.
You gotta wonder what’s going through Lapid’s mind right now.He got to enjoy thinking he made a good decision and he never thought that he really voted for Enrile and he was finally going to reach for a pen to sign his name on the roll call sheet.Maybe he would have won that majority of the senators who’d actually voted for Enrile.
Lapid clarified his vote and he is now saying he is abstaining. What an idiot.
Lapid later clarified again that he’s abstaining from sex, not vote.
Bolante is a changed man.Joc-Joc said he repeatedly read the Bible inside his detention cell first “to fight boredom” but ended up with deeper spiritual views.–Balak pang maging Obispo ni Bolante.Praise the lord!!!!!!!!
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that what Bolante said about the Bible applies to his sin. I’m not saying that sending criminals to jail significantly reduces the idiot population out in the hinterlands. However, what I have seen down here does suggest that every corrupt person and politician must spent time first in jail to become a saint.
I know that terms like corrupt are not socially, psychologically or politically correct, so I’m apologizing up front, not that it will matter to those of you who will write to tell me I need to be more sensitive to these things. But thank you anyway. And while I am at it I also will apologize to those idiots and simpletons who believe in Bolante’s stories and insulted by me suggesting that they have something in common with him. And if I have missed someone who needs apologizing to, I hope they’ll forgive me as well.Bless me Padir for I have sinned.
Now the thief has a new Patron…Santo Bolante Bolero….
Don’t you notice that most crooks and criminals who went to jail become spiritual or religious after getting out? Remember Mark Jimenez? Congressman Vincent Crisologo? And now Bolante. If he is indeed a changed man, he must repent and admit his crime. But what did he did? Nothing but lies and cover up!
Impeaching Gloria Arroyo is a hard thing to accomplish, it is like having a sex that’s difficult to ejaculate. She has more than enough congressmen who will ensure that the minority won’t succeed in getting the required number for the complaint to reach the Senate for trial. Not even in the plenary voting will the minority bloc get enough numbers to get her impeached by the House of Representatives.
We all know that the impeachment complaint would not prosper again. It’s numbers game. But at least people get to know what the crimes this Evil Bitch committed. After she’s out if the Palace (IF), then she loses her immunity and charges could be filed against her. It’s for this reason that we must guard the next SC Justices to be appointed and make sure that Cha-Cha will not push through.
Agree with Cocoy, “Impeaching Gloria Arroyo is a hard thing to accomplish,” (even the analogy seems not misplaced — who would want to have sex with Gloria in the first place?)
Anyway, before we all get carried away, I think, Ellen is spot on — something is ‘seriously’ afoot. And Tongue is right — let’s wait for the unfolding of the Zarzuela.
Off topic but related:
Who is the current Senate chairman of the Committee on Rules? Was it Lacson and Biazon who moved for revision of the rules to allow Trillanes to participate via video conference? What has happened to that proposal? They should now push Enrile to award the committee to a Trillanes-friendly senator. It will strengthen the Senate and it will be beneficial to the institution.
Enrile at his age is in the twilight of his political career. The senate presidency that was handed to him in a silver platter is the highlight of his career as a politician. Whether he uses it wisely for the good of the people and leaves a lasting legacy and a place in history, its really up to him. As he said, he is already and old man, in fact he maybe in the last inning of his life but by coincidence and for some reasons he was placed in the batter’s box to redeem himself and perform maybe his last chance at bat and hopefully hit a home run for the people.
I am not pinning my hopes on the new impeachment. The MMDA garbage truck outside the Batasan is eager to pick up its ashes.
A certain Cong. Jala or (Halla, Hala, whatever) was also just as eager to call in the basurero. Early in the hearing, he moved that the Committee on Justice return the impeachment complaint and dismiss it for “insufficiency in form”. He claimed that the date of the last impeachment complaint in 2007 was not indicated so it lacking in form.
Ulul.
Nagmamagaling ang gagong ito. Gusto yata ng extra Bonus sa loob ng kanyang brown bag.
Then it was Deputy Speaker Dela Rosa, the wife of the convicted murderer of the Quintos brothers – later acquitted on appeal, who cannot even speak carabao English in response to the opposition’s move to inhibit her being a recipient of fetilizer funds, had to ask Datung…I mean, Datumanong to speak for her. Lito Lapid’s counterpart in the House. There are several idiots in the House and a few in the senate.
If idiots could fly, then Congress will be an airport!
I don’t understand us Pinoys. We vote to replace a murderer with his moron wife? Or was it again Lintang Bedol’s vote that made her win?
Florry, I hope he doesn’t end up like the Mudville Nine’s Casey. The superstar struck out.
If and when Enrile will replace Gloria, Gringo will be V.P. and because Enrile is an old man Gringo will be it. Maybe he will be sympahtetic to Trillanes. The Zarzuela is very long. I forgot who quote this “We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values, We have abused power and called it politics, and we have rediculed the time- honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment”. Mga walang hiya ang mga politicians, pera lang ang tinitingnan.
Hehehe! agree with you Tongue the congress is a fraternity and sorority of Idiots.Of all the things our legislators do to convince me that we would be better off if they stayed home.
Our elected officials paused in their busy schedule and voted to name “Tilapia” the state’s official fish because Gloria Arroyo prefer it than “Galunggong” said we needed to. So despite protests from our fisherman and fish vendors across the Guadalupe market, They added another symbol to the list that includes an official state horse,(Guess who own the horse) rock, folk dance, reptile, amphibian, horseshoe tournament and nut (the butong pakwan, not a politician).
Legislators have not always put symbols very high on their “to-do” list. The Congress went for almost 8 years without naming a single one. Then, someone suggested that they needed Mike Villarde a state spiritual adviser, so they voted to let Villarde in for his one plus one–Two plus two and seven plus seven.They were so amazed about his umbrella.
Another years later the Congressman got around to adopting a national tree,the “Balite and the White Lady”. Then a symbol was added and every allies congressman got a 500 thousand pesos in a brown bag, from a lady who resided on the tree, the folks in the district who elected their congressman see to the state’s business have slapped them with orchid’s fertilizer that they didn’t have before.Not only that,their ancestor who maybe singing Aleluya in heaven or busy barbecueing their friends in hell become a recipient of these floral fertilizer.Some of of names who are busy talking to Christ were included in Bolante’s list and Sen.Noynoy Aquino.
So if we want the congress to accomplish anything, they have to focus the folks who elected them. Don’t give them ideas and issues that will take wandering minds off the business they are sent to conduct.
Sina enrile, santiago, lapid, revilla at gordon ay product ng dayaan noong 2004 election. Hindi ko maisip kung bakit ibinoto ng mga Pilipino ang mga iyan. Eto ay minapulate ni hello garci – abalos – wh*re dorobo/peke unano kaya naging senador ang mga iyan. Si zubiri naman na pekeng senador, ang kapal ng mukha, na hindi rin ibinoto ng majority ng mga Pilipino. product siya ng abalos komisyon on cheating. Sina zubiri, honasan, angara, at joker arroyo ay produt din ng dayaan noong 2007 election. eto ay minapulate ni abalos – bendol tandem.
Ang ipinalit nilang senate president ay si enrile. what a shame! nakakasuka na kayong mga politiko pareho pareho kayong self interest lang ang inaatupag. mahiya naman kayo sa taumbayan.
dapat i-abolish ng ang lower house para naman mabawasan ang magnanakaw sa pilipinas. dapat magpanukala tayo na i-abolish na eto at ilagay natin sa referendum para pagbotohan ng taumbayan.
Both the Lower and Upper House should be abolished, then replaced by Middle House.
P*taevil am i hitting a soft spot in your heart, you will be out of work…abolish lower house so that we will have less corrupt government officials.
Majority have already made up their minds for 2010. As usual they put so much weights on bailouts, doleouts, lesser taxes till the day before election day. It pays to have a lot of money to disburse for a candidate.
You cannot abolish the Lower House without also abolishing the Upper House. You need to change the constitution. You might be thinking of Parliamentary Form of government.
Nakarama si Villar. Ang sakit lang si Enrile ang nakinabang.
I’m afraid we are jumping from the frying pan to the fire.
Ganito ba talaga ang kapalaran ng Pilipinas?
Correction: Nakarma si Villar.
Nene Pimentel would have been the best choice as Senate President…
packing sheet! historically, enrile is a living example of what’s wrong in pinoy politics. magaling mang goyo (as in manloko, as in fake assasination attemp), balimbing, trapo, maka marcos, maka erap, ngayon maka gloria.
hindi lesson ito kay pandak. alam na alam na niya ito at siyang ginagamit ng kumag para hindi mapaalis sa malakanyang. alam na alam niya na pera pera lang, kahit sino, babaliktad.
To each his own talaga. Kahit kelan. These people will nevah evah change.
Reyna Elena
Wa hapin to your kingdom? Don’t tell me it was burn by California wildfire.
“Those who are in favor for Sen. Enrile to become the new Senate President, kindly raise your hands please…”
Some Senators: Aye!
Lapid: Present!
“1,2,3,… 14 votes for Sen. Enrile… he’s the new Senate President!”
Some Senators: “Yeheey!”
Lapid: “Ingay naman ng mga ‘to.”
The next day…
Sen. Enrile: “I’m just curious… may I ask why you, Hon. Lapid, is now sitting beside Sen. “C5 at Tiyaga” Villar?”
Lapid: “Likewise, Sen. Enrile, I’m wondering why you are there sitting in his table!”
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True to his name, Lapid was being Lito upon realizing that Villar didn’t voluntarily resign, as he thought it was, but was kick out partly by his vote.
Regretfully, he reaffirms that he is, as always been, for Villar.
Here’s my two cents worth, I believe the do-nothing-Senate should be abolished completely and the people should concentrate on kicking wh*re Gloria Arroyo out of stinking Malacanang. The Senators are ridiculously overpaid than their actual worth. They’ve really done nothing in a way of enacting laws, yet assisting the wh*re in mismanaging gov’t funds, including diverting of funds to enrich themselves. There are no checks and balances, so the Senate is no longer useful. Most obviously the wh*re is running the entire show unchecked, while the do-nothing-Senate conducting a war from within, neglected and forgotten the people. Hence, the Senate is nothing but a hindrance.
It’s so near yet so far, it’s almost within his reach yet unreachable.
Enrile is now third in line in the succession for the top post. It’s not a secret that once he ambitioned to become president one day. Wisdom comes off with age and whether he uses it with his new found power, revive and re-ignite his past but elusive presidential ambition is anybody’s guess.
Lapid to stay with Minority kasi nga mukhang may balak ulit tumakbo sa senate…na realize niya if you are in minority block people will think you are opposition then your chances malaki talaga but I hope people should vote wisely…di naman kasi puwedeng tahimik lang sa senate so napagbigyan na siya better for him to run mayor na lang ng lalawigan nila.
Naku, Your Highness, nalusutan ang security mo!
Reyna Elena’s site is inaccesible.
Sen. Enrile is only for himself. Whenever his interests are threaten, he usually creates scenarios that leads to his and his interests being saved. Such as what happen during Marcos’ time. Same with Cory’s. Now its happening again. He has to manipulate things to go his way. He is a wily fox or smiling de*il. He still has this strong desire/ambition to be President of the Philippines. This may be his last chance. There are forces now moving in that direction. Enrile loyalists are much busier now than before. GMA is shaking. They are meeting and burning candles to stave off this coming onus. Is this what the Bishops were saying? Liberators coming? Remember, Enrile has still a great number of supporters in and out of the military establishment. Enrile’s ascension to the senate presidency has just delayed a coup for the right to rule the country. The senate presidency now is much closer to the presidency of the republic. Once the current pretender is removed, the senate president takes over, done. Don’t hold your collective breath, its here, its coming. GMA and her cohorts Karma is coming.
Pag palagay mo na BE na mali si gapoboy, bakit kailangang tawagin mo siyang gagoboy? Hindi ba bullying iyan? Bilib ako sa mga alam mo, pero, masama ang dating ng tawag mo kay gapoboy. Para kang si Noel, iyong pinatalsik dito nuon.
Bitchevil, personal insults is not allowed in this blog. It should not be tolerated anywhere. It doesn’t achieve anything good.
BE: Nene Pimentel would have been the best choice as Senate President
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I agree, pero ayaw hindi siya matunog sa mga kurakot! Sayang talaga!
i doubt if enrile has anything left to push further with his presidential ambition. he only got the post because the other aspiring presidentiables are hot on villar’s tracks and would have anyone from the administration so long as they could gather enough votes to oust him.
Enrile is in his twilight years. The senate presidency is 2 steps away from Malacanang. His actions or the lack of it in the coming days and weeks, especially sa imbestigasyon ng Fertilizer at Euro Gen, would unmask the true color of what this rigodon is all about.Yes, Gloria could be having nightmares, since Ping, Mar, Loren and Jamby are the primary movers of this action, but gloria has been so callous in her actions, that I think she would not lose any sleep at all. Manhid na si Gloria at alam niya, kaya niyan paikutin and laruin and mga hunghang na ito. The revelation of this charade could be unmasked on the following actions to be taken by Enrile:
Cha-cha, Fertilizer Scam Investigation, Euro Generals Investigation, Video Link for Senator Trillanes,
Security detail provided to Senate witnesses, like Jun Lozada and Dante Madriaga among others.
As I have mentioned previously, the scenario has unraveled the preferrence of the presidentiables to have a status quo and level of playing field in the run up to 2010 presidential elections. Other changes would be merely incidental occurrences.
Yet again, we may still have to wait a little longer to be able to get a clearer picture, of what this Senators are really up to.
I nominate Ping for Blue Ribbon Committee, Gordon for Red Ribbon, Noynoy for Yellow Ribbon, Zubiri for Pink Ribbon and for Miriam, ribbon lang with which to tie her neck to a tree.
Ha! Ha! Ha!.
Sulbatz, I’ll put this in text form so I can share it with others.
We just have to laugh it out. Was it playwright Eugene O’Neill who said, “I laugh inorder not to cry.”
ellen,
what is a “military vote”? is it possible in the philippine politics? does it explain why gringgo, biason, trillanes, et al can easily win in the national elections?
As they say in politic, Villar is no wh*re Gloria. To think of what happened in the Senate, transferred of power, from one hood to another hood, that somehow shaken the wh*re’s perseverance to remain in power, I doubt it. The wh*re got all the resources at her disposal, more brown bags than the entire Senate put together, as the wh*re demonstrated time and time again in almost eight years.
Just for the sake of curiosity, is Villar will be prosecuted? Afterall, P200 million double entry on C-5 road extension was hardly a lapse of judgement, but purposely to deceive the tax payers of theur money. As usual, this one will also be swept under the banig, I suppose.
Kitamokitamo, it was just a typing error. Letter “p” looks like letter “g”. Instead of insinuation, why not try to be more understanding? It was a lapse of typing.
Ellen, sorry as well as to the Olonggapo Boy.
From a frying pan directly to the fire! Does it really matter who the President of the Senate, do-nothing-Senate? Not really. Ever since Erap was kicked out, the Senate has been going down hill ever since, and with dinosaur Enrile it will get worsen. Enrile was, if you all remember, voted against the opening of the 2nd bank envelope that led to the toppled of Erap. Gratitude for you. Lesson learned here is, that no one in Politic can be trusted. How can Enrile make the different, when his loyalty is all about Enrile. Ponce didn’t survived all these years for just being stupid. His kind, and like him, is the major desease in the gov’t. With Ponce as the Pres. of the Senate, it just fortified of the wh*re’s hold in power.
# gapoboy Says:
November 19th, 2008 at 9:00 am
P*taevil am i hitting a soft spot in your heart, you will be out of work…abolish lower house so that we will have less corrupt government officials.
…..May I know what P*taevil means? Is it also a typing error?
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@SULBATZ!
“I nominate Ping for Blue Ribbon Committee, Gordon for Red Ribbon, Noynoy for Yellow Ribbon, Zubiri for Pink Ribbon and for Miriam, ribbon lang with which to tie her neck to a tree.”
that was very good! hahaha! love it! hahaha!
I beg to disagree with you, Toney. It was true that Enrile defended Erap throughout the impeachment. As a lawyer, Enrile was correct in voting against the opening of the second envelope. Like other Senators with legal background at that time, the decision was purely legal. But of course they now later regretted. Had they allowed it to be opened, Erap might still be the President because his name was not in the envelope.
Impeaching wh*re Gloria is out of the question, since the wh*re got more give away brown bags as her secret weapon, the WMD, if you will. To rid of the wh*re, only if she volunteer not to run in 2010. Or, if the one million warm bodies decided to spend time, at least, 7-days on the streets of Manila, Quezon City, and everywhere else in the Philippines. Be that as it may, just never know what to expect of the wh*re, however you can almost predict, the wh*re is up to no good. You just got to admire this wh*re, even if you hate her, she has managed to stay afloat all these years inspite of all the corruption and chaos. Like a teflon, nothing stick!
could it be that knowing GMA is a lameduck, JPE already preparing for another move to the next Power Camp, which he will be contributing of building up? or finally the old veteran just decided that he will just dedicate the remaining days of his career in politics to do what was supposed to be done from the very start of it, guide the country to its rightful place in the world.
If many trust Erap, there’s nothing much to worry about Enrile because the two are very close. Erap will not allow Enrile to
continue being Malacanang’s tool. Enrile’s new post might even strengthen the opposition.
And the way the Evil Bitch is able to manipulate, maneuver to remain in power this long…some may begin to admire her instead of hate. Admire her for her evil expertise.
Did Erap got the fair hearing as mandated President or it was a kangaroo court, the outcome has already been decided? Enrile suppressed the evidences with only single motive in mind at the time, to put the wh*re into power. Erap never had the chance. Everybody, almost everybody thought that the wh*re was good for the country, irregardless, and Erap must go. Now we know the rest of the story, the brown bags bunch has been protecting the wh*re, no matte what. It’s not about fair justice, but it’s all about brown bags from the wh*re.
Me, I don’t want to speculate. Just see what’s gonna happen next.
Truth is I don’t trust any of these crooks who initiated this coup regardless of whether or not they try to remove the criminal at the palace by the murky river. Action na, wala na sanang marami pang dada ang mga kuratong for love of country, not self!
Juan Ponce Enrile is just one hood, corrupt, incompetent individual with now more added power in his resume. In actuality, it doesn’t matter, the people will be screwed just as the same. Hopeless to think that changes will be for the better with Ponce as the head of the hoods. like I said before, the Philippines gov’t is dead, died when justice collapsed when Erap was ousted, and the wh*re start stinking the house of the people.
By the way, no one protested when I mistakenly wrote “deepthroat” instead of deepcaring. Deepcaring even liked it.
Why did kitamokitamo complain about my misspelling of gaboboy?
Anyway, my apology again. It’s a sign of getting old.
There’s one factor, an unspoken one, which binds Marcos, Erap and GMA together. It’s a factor which particularly concerns Washington. And that factor is their flirtation with America’s perceived enemies.
In the case of Marcos, it was his flirtation with China and Russia. He was the first, Philippine president to break diplomatic tradition by extending a friendly hand to Beijing and Moscow. As with Marcos, Erap also manifested an unmistakable tendency to deal with China. Months before his fall, the papers carried the story that Erap had given a prominent state bank of China full commercial banking privilege.
Do we see GMA’s downfall orchestrated by Washington? If there’s one, it gotta be soon…quick.
This senate coups gives a lot of twists. It’s confusing, it’s giving me a headache just thinking about it right now. 🙂
As far as bolante claiming to be a changed man: I think first, you have to repent your sins and ask forgiveness to the people of the Philippines. But then, why is he claiming to be reformed for reading the bible? Look at that gloria, she obviously goes to church and reads the bible a million times than me, and she’s still as evil as hell?
Ipaglaban mo:
Tama ka. Reading the Bible does not make a person holy. Kahit ilan beses basahin ni Bolate ang Bibliya kundi naman niya ina-apply ang turo doon sa buhay niya, wala ring silbi.
I doubt if he knows that to reach some spirituality when reading the Bible one has to be moved by the Holy Ghost, who actually witnesses unto us whether what the Bible says is true or not, and it is only when one is really moved by it that one can have the courage to acknowledge his mistakes and make amends for his sins. Otherwise, it is all just words of mouth that I doubt God will be happy to hear!!! Sa isang salita, iyong pagbasa ni Bolate, and even Mike Pidal, ng Bible ay walang pinag-iba sa pagbasa nila ng Playboy!!!
Dapat mangilabot ang mga hunghang na iyan sa mga blasphemous statements nila. Hindi komo nakulong siya ng dalawang taon at napilitan siyang basahin iyong Bibliya na iniiwan ng mga Gideonites sa mga preso ay santo na siya. Puede ba mangilabot naman sila?!!!
Sa totoo lang, kung talagang nagbasa siya ng Bible dapat alam niyang kung walang retribution kahit na magsabi siyang nagsisisi siya, hind pa rin siya mapapatawad. Dapat aminin niya ang lahat ng pagkakamali niya, humingi siya ng tawad sa mga taong ninakawan nila at ibalik nila ang ninakaw nila. Otherwise, may his body and soul rot in hell!!! 😛
The question being asked is: Who is better, Villar or Enrile?
Who could be more trusted as Senate President, Villar or Enrile? Can Enrile show his independence after he defended the Evil Bitch in all those impeachment complaints? It’s a question that can only be answered in the days to come.
“The real problem of the Philippines as a developing state is not poverty but graft and corruption. The country is not corrupt because it is poor, on the contrary, the country is poor because it is corrupt.”
I wrote this gem of thought in my college notebook but can’t remember who said it. Anyone who knows the writer?
BE: The question being asked is: Who is better, Villar or Enrile?
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Sagot: Walang tulak-kabigin! Dapat marunong ng pumili ng matino ang mga pilipino at hindi iyong palaging, “the better between two evils.” God, have mercy on them!
What’s the other alternative in choosing two evils? Of course we need to choose the lesser evil or not choose at all. The imperfection of man compels us to choose the one closer to being perfect.
Sir SULBATZ…returning for duty sir!
Nadali mo, kaawaawang Pinas puro dusa’t hirap ang dinaranas sa mga hayok sa kapangyarihan. In layman’s word, “Pinaglalaruan lang nila ang taong-bayan”.
Saan tayo patutungo? Puro kahihiyan at sakit ng ulo!
Ganito na lang ba tayo folks! Maging sunud-sunuran sa kanilang kawalang pagmamahal sa Inang Bayan.
Hi grizzy, i preferably choosing NOT of one of them, but we need to educate our Kababayan to be more matured and intelligent to select and vote who’s God fearing and Nationalist candidate(s) per se.
Ang malaking problema eh itong ating mga kababayan, walang pinagkatandaan at di na natuto sa pagboto. Pasasaan ba tayo niyan at saan tayo patutungo kung ganito ng ganito ang kalakaran sa pang pulitikang buhay.
Marami ang gustong maging lingkod ng bayan, ang kaso pag naupo na hayon nakalimutan na nila ang kanilang sarili.
Choosing one who’s God fearing is everyone’s wish for a leader. However, fearing God and obeying His commands are two different things. Even the Devil fears God.
Ka Balweg,
Aba eh mukhang napakalyo ng nilakbay at ngayon lang kita muling nasilayan dine. Sali ka ulit sa ating mga balitaktakan.
I was sleeping when somebody woke me up to say that there is a NEW PRESIDENT and it is being announced on TV. I jumped from my bed, hit the ceiling, grabbed my pants and sandals, shouted Yahoooo!!!!, ran for the TV, banging the door along the way, sat in front of the TV (in my underwear)…only to find out, SA SENADO LANG PALA. I had to wear my pants and sandals in front of everybody else. PAKENSYEETTT!!!!
Text from an UNO member:
Korek ka diyan Sir Sulbatz, aba eh nagulat din ako na si Enrile na ang Bosing?
Busy ako sa pinaggagawang kabulastugan ni JOKE JOKE last thursday, imagine almost 10 hours na ginisa ng mga senador eh ang siste mas malakas pa ang kanyang powerz kumpara sa mga iyon eh.
Kaya na miss ko kayong lahat lalo na pag ganito ang topic na pinag-uusapan.
Best Regards ha!
Ellen, thank you for reminding BE on being professional on these site and respect one’s user name and opinion/s. i’ve been a long time reader of your site and just recently signed up.
@BE, apology accepted. i just translated your username to tagalog. Olongapo is with single g not double. and i don’t want to go to your lowly level of name calling. i respect your username and i expect you respect mine.
@kitakitako thanks for pointing it out.
The other “g” is for you, my friend. Sometimes, I have no control of my foul humor. Rest assured it won’t happen again.
That Kitamo’s comment really puzzled me.
bitchevil,
Kaya itong si Dureza eh walang pinagkatandaan, nasarapan sa pwesto kaya humihirit pa na ma extend si GMA.
Naku po! Pls. naman di pa tapos ang 2010 eh nangangarap pang manatili si GMA sa poder ng kapangyarihan… papayag ka ba?
Ang YR2009 eh di pa natin alam kung ano ang ating magiging kapalaran eh gusto pang beyond 2010, sobra na ang pang iinsulto nitong si Dureza sa Masang Pinoy.
BE, my friend, thanks. we are on the same side against this wh*re dorobo/pekeng unano.
No problem. I think most of us are on the same side here. That’s why we need to be a bit more tolerant with one another.
Right, Kitamokitaniyo?
Akala ng mga oposisyon eh nakaposisyon na sila nung tinanggal nila si Villar but they put themselves now under the command of the evil bitches’ lapdogs! All the juicy senate positions are going to the lapdogs. Only Jinggoy(I almost wrote Unggoy) got the second best position. Can he do anything? The weakest link! Naging anak lang siya ni Erap and that is it! This guy is very arrogant and I do not know if he even thinks! I do not know if the opposition can ever win over the evil bitch! May kanya kanya silang ambisyon but they do not seem to know how to act as a “team”. They are destroying each other! Instead of fielding in just one strong presidentiable, lahat sila gustong maging presidente! Come election time, the admin candidate will get 30 % of the vote and the five opposition cantidates will each get 10% each of the vote. Sino ang nanalo? The evil bitch does! Until the opposition know how to give way to one another, walang patutunguhan silang lahat. THEY WILL ALWAYS BE ALL LOSERS! Pinagtatawanan lang sila ni evil bitch, ni Dureza, ni Big Joke atbp. NO wonder Dureza is very confident that the evil bitch will go beyond 2010! I will not be surprised if she does because the opposition senators are but “FILIPINO CRABS”! They will all pull one another to the ground while the admin crab will be pulling a HOME RUN!
Changing Villar for Enrile is a BIG MISTAKE and giving all the juicy positions to the ADMIN senators is a “Suicide”!
Enrile is too old to change. He had and has always been where the money and power was, is and will be. I simply can not trust Enrile!
Villar may just run as an independent and may win overwhelmingly over these ambitious “opposition presidentiables”. Akala nila naisahan nila si Villar but Villar seem to be smiling from ear to ear. I do not like Villar either but this senate coup may have just boosted his bid to the presidency.
On the contrary, BE, I do not believe in choosing between two evils no matter how imperfect you claim men might be. Truth is we don’t even know what is really perfect as a matter of fact, and that is in fact, why we continue to search for the truth and perfectness.
As for voting for the lesser evil, kagaguhan na iyan. Over in the Land of the Fluctuating Yen, people vote on issues not personalities, and we vote for the ones who can offer the best solutions to existing pressing issues that actually prompt termination of an administration for instance and choosing another one no matter what their educational, social, etc. backgrounds are, huwag lang silang kriminal at kasapi sa Yakuza, etc. na sindikato, established or non-established criminal gangs. Sa Pilipinas, insultador pa ng wala raw college degree without taking into consideration that everyone of us has been given by God talents that we should improve and use for the good of mankind.
Bakit ba si Jesus Christ, wala naman siyang college degree sa totoo lang at ipinanganak siyang isang karpentero lamang, but then, of course, He was/is different. He is the Only Begotten Son! Pero tayo din, we are supposed to be children of God, and the truth is we should have been acting as one!
Right now, in fact, Aso is being pressured to call on an election even when he promises that he will do his best to tide over Japan and bouy up Japanese economy amidst the world economic crisis caused by Bush’s war mongering, etc.
At least, now they know that it is all this idiot’s fault. Akala niya kasi puede siyang manloko forever. Buhay ng tao ang inaagaw niya at sunud-sunuran ang mga mokong na kababayan niyan dahil sa kayabangan nila, o di patikimin sila ng Panginoon ng hirap at dusa na mas masahol pa siguro sa ginawa nila sa mga taong sinakop at inapi nila.
Sa Pilipinas ang problema, gaya ng sinabi ni Balweg, hindi na natoto ang mga bumoboto. Alam na nga nilang may tupak sa ulo, binoboto pa rin nila. Kaya ang lalaki ng ulo ng mga hinayupak na gunggong na pinapaupo nila. Hindi pa sila marunong kumilatis ng talagang matino. Haaaaaaaaay!
Kundi ba naman mga mokong (buti na lang hindi sumali si Senator Pimentel sa kabulastugang nangyari), nilagay pa iyong pekeng bakla sa isang exalted position sa Senado. Bilib ka rin sa kagaguhan ng mga mokong na mga vested interests! Yuck!
Kawawang Pilipinas! Tiyak aangkinin ni Gloria Dorobo ang credit sa ginawa nina Lacson na pinaglalalagay ang mga galamay ni Gloria sa mataas na position sa Senado. Gagawa at gagawa iyan ng paraan na ma-control niya iyong mga pinaupo! Yuck!
Jesus Christ had no college degree because I don’t think there was any college to speak of during His time. There was no Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree or PH Degree. He was only a carpenter; but at that time there was not much professions like today. There was no engineer, computer technician, economist, etc. But anyway, Jesus was perfect. He was the only One Who did not sin.
psb,
No one in the Villar camp is smiling. Cynthia was in tears as she spoke of the coup during a party for about a thousand ex- and active Manila barangay captains in a QC restaurant. Maceda says Villar also hosted a party of over a hundred mayors from Visayas in his new Shaw Blvd. mansion. The same gloomy atmosphere. Definitely not a victory party. Look who’s not “ambitious”!
I wish we could all be consistent with our principles, if we really have it. Villar’s criminal, okay, immoral deed re C-5 insertion deserves condemnation from right-minded citizens. We demand Gloria’s ouster for her shortcomings and we can turn the other cheek in the case of Villar?
Not my style.
Sabi ko nga, BE, we do not even have a perfect knowledge of what perfect is all about. Truth is I have read somewhere for example that Jesus Christ’s face was not extraordinary. Kapareho lang natin na ordinary as a matter of fact, but then sabi nga, “We are created in the image of God.” Ang pagkakaiba nga lang natin sa kaniya ay siya lang ang Only Begotten Son!!!
Sino naman ang may sabi sa iyong walang kolehiyo noon? Remember, meron na silang mga Socrates at Aristotle bago pa ipinanganak si Jesus Christ kaya lang iniadya ng Diyos na ipanganak si Jesus Christ na mahirap para masipat kung sinu-sino talaga ang kikilalanin siyang anak ng Diyos. Ngayon kaya kung lumitaw Siyang bigla na mahirap (pero hindi gula-gulanit ang damit dahil malinis Siya), sa palagay mo ba may papansin sa Kaniya?…unless of course touched by the Spirit sabi nga. Kung baga sa panahon natin, may mga propesor na mataas ang pinag-aralan kahit noon kaya nga lang mukhang limited sa mga merong sinasabi ang ganoon mga pribelihiyo.
Turht is voters should not look for someone who claims to be perfect, but someone who is honest and true, and is willing to sacrifice, body and soul, for the sake of his fellowmen, which should be the main concern of anyone in fact who wants to be in some exalted position in any society. Issue ang dapat na pinag-uusapan, at kung may belesa o wala ang pinauupo para tapusin ang problema, perfect o imperfect man ang gawa, basta may kusa, pagtitiis at tunay na damdamin sa bayan at kapwa. Otherwise, huwag na lang silang bumoto!
Villar’s humble beginning…from rugs to riches…has always been in question. He made a fortune out of real estate dealings. Who knows how he did it. Were those honest dealings…or through influence he got from previous presidents? The C-5 will be his biggest thorn between now and 2010. My bet is it would not prosper for one simple reason: El Shaddai’s Bro. Mike Velarde was also involved.
Tongue: We demand Gloria’s ouster for her shortcomings and we can turn the other cheek in the case of Villar?
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Sinabi mo pa. Ako sa totoo lang, ayoko si Villar. Sipsip na sipsip iyan kay Erap noon tapos biglang kambio nang pabagsak na si Erap, tapos kapit ulit nang alam niyang mabango pa pala si Erap sa mga mahirap. Vested interest din ang ungas. Anong pinag-iba kay Gloria Dorobo?
Thanks for those info, grizzy. I really didn’t know there were colleges during the time of Jesus.
If I were Danding, and I threw in my hat for the presidential race (through my surrogates, Chiz or Gilbert), I would ensure that there would be no Garci to steal victory from my ward. That can only be done if the Boss of Garci is dislodged. It further requires that the Boss of Garci be replaced by someone I am comfortable with.
That can be done if another surprise is sprung in the House, and the impeachment prospers; in the impeachment, the swapping of ballots will be revealed, and the likes of Rasalan, paraded out. Of course, Noli will also be implicated as a beneficiary of Garci.This is where the Senate Presidency of JPE comes in handy, because he ascends to the Presidency.
True, Gilbert can be aided to ascension by Garci. But I, the doting Uncle, would not want the nephew I am so proud of to be beholden, nay, be a puppet of another person. I want my nephew to ascend to greatness by being his own man. So I will not allow my nephew to run with that party.
Special consideration goes to the fact that my nephew is so proud of his father, who stood up to Imelda. According to my nephew, “Si Daddy, walang bahid ang dangal.” Now do you think my nephew would run for the party associated with ZTE? He will run under my party, and it is my duty as the Uncle to ensure that he gets every break. Ditto, for Chiz, if Gilbert wishes to wait six years.
Is a surprise waiting in the House? Why do you think JDV was in San Francisco? Is it because if he talks to people in the US, he would not be as much under the radar as when he were in Manila? Walang PSG sa San Francisco.
Malalim lahat ito. Greed is too simplistic an explanation. Kung greed lang, everybody would be with Guriang.
Kawawang Pilipinas? grizzy, halos lahat tayo eh nangarap na magkaroon ng magandang Pilipinas but more than 20-Years na ang nakakaran eh mukha atang nagkakalokohan na?
But, at least halos karamihan sa atin na nangibang-bayan eh nagkaroon naman ng break unlike sa marami nating Pinoy sa Pinas heto napasama sa #5 ranking sa buong mundo na marami ang walang makain sa hapag-kainan.
Ito ba ang ipinagyayabang nga mga graduate na yan sa UP, ATENEO at iba pang top schools sa Pinas na matatalino sila. Saan? Sa pangungurap at puro kasinungalingan. Buti pa yong graduate sa ordinary schools eh hayon ordinary rank and file employees pero kahit papaano eh nakakaraos naman ng buhay kaysa sa mga adelintado nating leaders na sayang ang kanilang edukasyon.
Meron naman silang edukasyon kahit noong unang panahon, BE, pero limitado sa mga may kaya. Sa totoo lang, maski si Jesus Christ, may edukasyon no doubt kaya nga nakaka-qoute sa Old Testament lalo na doon sa isinulat ni Isaiah dahil pihado nakakabasa siya, Sa totoo lang ipinanganak siya sa pamilyang may dugong bughaw via David, the King. Maaaring wala siyang Ph (DPhil) pero no doubt nabibilang siya doon sa tinatawag na learned. Besides, hindi naman uso noon ang kumukuha ng doctorate degree para lang may ipagyabang gaya ng yabang ng mga taga-Ateneo, etc. parochial school.
Come to think of it, sa UK nga iyong mga student sa Oxford U for instance, ang tawag “readers” na tradition noong unang panahon na itinatag ang pamantasang iyon in the meridian of time. Nagbabasa lalo na ng tinatawag na “Philosophy.”
Sa totoo lang si FPJ kahit walang degree, mas makatao at may utak din kesa kay Gloria Kabisote. Sayang nadaya!
Hello progressive people.
Its time for you to refocus your guns. GMA is out in 2010 and all the zarzuela going on in the Senate right now are just plain positioning of pieces. Get ready for the GRAND RETURN OF YOUR MASTER… JOSEPH “ERAP” EJERCITO ESTRADA el presidente nuevo.. The puppet master is coming back and his minions are heeding his call…
So, what’s wrong if Master Erap is back? If the opposition is not united as it is now, then Erap is a good alternative. Puppet? He’s no puppet to anyone most especially the US. That’s why he was ousted.
And even if Erap is indeed running, he must be legally cleared. The way it is now, he cannot. I look at it as a political strategy to keep Malacanang off guard. So, let’s not attack him yet until he finally declares his candidacy before 2010.
Looking at these events in the light of a renewed push for charter change, the more I am convinced that Pimentel should not be chosen Senate president. Not this time, at least.
Other than the Gloria bootlickers, it is Pimentel who favors and vigorously supports charter change to federalize the system more than any other anti-Gloria senator and I think he still has a pending resolution in the Senate to this effect. I will not delve on the issue of balimbing/traydor, or even on political dynasty since it’s a close race to call between him and Enrile with Enrile winning just by the hair of his nose.
Whether Enrile will still encourage Chacha moves after Jinggoy’s threat of jumping the fence should Enrile do so, I believe that issue on chacha is safe in the Senate for the moment.
And that’s how this new majority should proceed, by naming its parameters, its boundaries, it’s targets and timetable. The shock from the event will probably settle in a week’s time and they should buckledown and start delivering the goods.
They can start by improving on their unruly hearings, wherein only the microphones of the committee chairman, the senator whose turn has come, and that of the resource person, should be switched on. Wala nang singit na tanong kung di mo pa turn!
Enrile should also require the senators to come prepared, armed with well-researched data and info and avoid repeating the same questions over and over. Nakakairita, mas magaling pa magpa-meeting yung SK Chairman namin.
BE,
Kaya nga ibinubugaw na si Devanadera sa Supreme court dahil tiyak nang babarahan si Erap pag tumakbo. May isa’t kalahating taon pa para mapalitan na lahat ng Supreme Court justices ng Team Pidal. The LONE opposition candidate should come from any of the senators or even outside kung hindi, siguradong iti-technical lang ng SC. Sasabihin na naman ng mga alipores ni Pandak, ang tatanga kasi ng mga opposisyon, e.
Remember Neri’s Executive Privilege? Hindi pa retired ang mga “independent” justices niyan.
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That’s why Tongue, Erap must clear his legal impediment NOW if he wants to run. He could petition the SC for clarification.
Once SC responds positively, he can run in 2010. If the decision is negative, then the opposition could pick a candidate except Erap earlier.