It’s time for a strongman to act - 1
IT’S disturbing. The price of oil in the world market is hitting the rafters and the profiteers and destabilizers are taking advantage of the situation in every turn. Bishops and priests along with the rubble rousers in religious habits connive with the political opposition to fan the dying ember of dissent. The oligarchy, immune from any form of economic and geopolitical anomalies, is making life more miserable for the masses. As if these are not enough, foreign-funded media establishments and those run by local media moguls sworn to diminish the popularity of the Duterte government rev their propaganda machineries adding to confusion and the misery of the disillusioned.
The bureaucracy moreover is not without taint. Despite Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s stern warning against corruption there are still characters in high and low places that overnight amass ill-gotten wealth. The Chief Executive, lonely at the top, is dismayed many of those he has to axed were among those who doggedly pushed him to run for President. What makes me puke on the other hand is the gall of some who are not only contented with one position but made the bureaucracy their family employer. How thick can their hides be.
While the nation is reeling on the impact of the spike of oil prices, we are aghast by what is happening in the other departments
In the Senate loyalties are defined by the color of money and what insures re-election. Koko Pimentel was booted out as Senate President for while he dons the PDP jacket his body is of Yellow streak. He cannot wait for the opposition to speak against Quo Warranto that led to the termination of the term of Ma. Lourdes Sereno. It turned out he is one among them. Koko, a bar top-notcher alright, lectured on majority of the Magistrates of the Supreme Court in the same language that members of the opposition and the avowed critics of Duterte do. What they demand is for Sereno to be impeached for, by their experience, there is moolah, a lot of moolah, in the proceedings like what they relished when they unkindly ousted the late Chief Justice Renato Corona.
In the Lower Chamber, Speaker Bebot Alvarez is hounded by issues that pertains to his assets. He dares anyone to prove his properties in Siargao and elsewhere were ill-gotten. He blamed his former friend and erstwhile consummate political campaigner, Rep. Tonyboy Floirendo, as the source of the expose’ but the latter shrugged it off. Bebot filed a case against Tonyboy which had been elevated to the Sandiganbayan. The lawyer of Floirendo wanted the case heard to compel the Speaker to appear in the witness stand. We will await this scenario. If Tonyboy is one who cannot swat a fly, we heard his lawyer can be very mean. Meantime, we are seeing hardcore anti-Duterte congressmen and local elective officials recruited to PDP-Laban. (to be continued tomorrow)