A Fire! Aim!

lubricate the transition.

Rene’s impeachment and conviction by the Senate corrected an egregious blunder. To say that Senate Prez Manong Johnny had been bribed by PNoy is inane. No love lost between JPE and the Aquinos. Manong did the country and the system, not PNoy, a favor.

Severe institutional damage

CJ Meilou was not the one I supported and endorsed in 2012 but another who would have been 70 in 2014, when she would have been a riper choice after a calmative adjustment period. However, I had to respect the process.

As it is, the institutional damage of the current spectacle, to me, is severe.

House justice committee chair Rey Umali, a fellow Bedan, has, they say, just praised retired Justice Arturo Brion for praising the committee.

But, I commend him for reminding the complaining lawyer sternly that it is not the latter’s place to tell his panel what to do.

An impeachable offense must be so basic as to strike at the very heart of the workings of government. Not turf quarrels. Here, if what is proven Meilou is found liable, why not a reprimand or even censure, lessons learned, and all thereafter move on?

Administrative matters may be left to the CJ alone while the rest should do what they were appointed to do: decide cases. (It was Meilou who in hazing on February 11, 1991.) That is what the judiciary should offer, not Hamlet’s “law’s delay,” nor, arguably,

Digong’s holiday offering to the people is Manny Pacquiao for Prez in 2022. If Digong is serious, Manny should prepare now and abandon his pursuit of money in China and his obsession - weather, McGregor and Marquez. But, he’s facing lawsuits in the US for lack of candor about his shoulder affecting his credibility. There, going on 40, he is history as fans in the US are not gullible. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, they say there. He should also settle his tax liabilities, alleged to be in the billions, according to former BIR commissioner Kim Henares. Maybe Digong will ask Mocha Uson to be Manny’s veep? Good that she is now in a good law school for subjective growth. That’s the spirit.

Merry Christmas. May we all have grace and goodwill and the coming year can bring anyone. Including “undesirable congs” and their “undesirable constituents,” denied their pork, legal in the US but not here, supposedly, the SC ruling notwithstanding. Mr. Speaker, think of the innocent children, in the wind and rain…