Mental dishonesty
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is pouring funds to capture the Senate in the May 14 election, while preparing the groundwork for the abolition of that institution.
But the electorate is not easily fooled. That is precisely the reason why people give opposition candidates a warm welcome wherever they go.
“The unity spin” of the administration could no way reconcile the diametrically opposed views of its candidates. That is, unless the candidates themselves have already abandoned their principles for the sake of unlimited campaign funds.
I won’t be surprised if Team GMA adopts the battle cry “unity in diversity’. But that is to pay the electorate the greatest insult. Its candidates hold views that are different from one another as night from day.
All candidates of the Genuine Opposition (GO) are to a man against Presidential Decree 1017, Executive 464, and the infamous Calibrated Pre-Emptive Response, all of which seek to deny the people their right to peaceful assembly and to hide the rot of corruption that is at the heart of the present government.
Most important of all, my colleagues and I fought attempts to amend the Constitution through the so-called People’s Initiative and to railroad a bill calling for Constitutional Assembly, which has for its primary purpose the abolition of the Senate.
A number of the administration candidates, as their individual records would show, were with the opposition in the fight. I am thus wondering if they would now work for the abolition of the Senate.
But the situation is not as bad for those who are for the abolition of the Senate all along.
They are coming before the electorate with dirty hands. How could they, in good conscience, ask people to elect them to the Senate when they spurn that institution?
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:40 am
What;s new about gloria arroya. I don’t beleive anything she says. Lies, lies, lies and more lies from GMA
March 27th, 2007 at 4:31 am
no matter what u say,GMA is the greatest president,the phils ever had.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:00 am
YEAH..THATS TRUE!WHEN WILL THE GMA ADMIN.CONVINCE THE FILIPINO PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE TRUSTWORHTY,WHERE UNTIL NOW THEY COULD NOT RESOLVE THE ISSUES ABOUT GARCI’S CONTROVERSY,THE FERTILIZER SCAM,THE POLITICAL KILLINGS AND ETC…WHEN WILL THE FILIPINO EVER LEARN TO CHOOSE THE BEST GOV’T BY VOTING THE BEST CANDIDATE LIKE YOU SO THAT WE WILL NOT BE HAVING A WORST GOV’T LIKE ABOVE.
March 28th, 2007 at 1:44 am
One of their slogans is “Itanim sa Senado.” Plant what, pray tell? The seeds of the Senate’s destruction?
The Office of the President, the Senate and the House of Representatives have been at different times in this country’s history sources of national shame. That doesn’t mean we should abolish these offices.
March 29th, 2007 at 5:18 am
regarding that, the team unity always says that the GO has no platforms… if you analize their propositions, they are promising impossible things…… How Can i say that……. for example, housing projects in the future…… how can they make it possible if all of them were corrupt politician..