No more playing games and the serenade made by the mayors of Pampanga at the Palace urging President Gloria Arroyo to run for congress if not threatening her that they will do the filing of her candidacy themselves for her was no more than what eunuchs do best: to add more air to the over-inflated ego of their master, or in this case, the hand that feeds them cold cash.
There are obviously people who are raising legal questions (one of them is Former President Erap Estrada himself whose running for the Presidency is also subject to a legal tussle) as to the legality of Mrs. Arroyo running for a lower government position as to the constitutional provision saying that the President is not allowed to run for any reelection with the word “any” spelling out the big difference. No three-letter word in Philippine history could spell out a big difference for our country’s future and to more years of Lucifer dancing to the streets and painting the town of Pampanga bloody red.
I will leave though such complicated legal issue to those they refer as “the guys who knows better “on the constitution and its interpretation, though we are pretty sure that there is no such thing as a universal interpretation of our laws: it is still all about personalities, individual belief systems, political powerplay and sometimes level of personal “emo” moments among those who decide about what the law really says.
I don’t care if GMA wins as a congresswoman of the second district of her most beloved province which I think is already a given. I am actually doing my best already to train my tongue on saying Congresswoman Gloria Arroyo despite my tongue rebelling against my brain saying it would rather want to end up on a sizzling plate for a lengua estofada than speaking of heretical statements and end up excommunicated. Speaking of martyrdom.
Here are my thoughts about the issue. Good thing, I am not using my tongue to deliver these quick thoughts and typing on a computer keyboard has added on another reason for me to be grateful of living during the 21st century.
1. GMA winning the congressional seat without much resistance is a given. His son Mikey Arroyo therefore has to find some more suitable government position for him as he gives way for his beloved mother to invade his district. If his mother, a President runs for a lower office, I think following the dictates of precedence, Mikey is set to run for a Barangay Kagawad. But his biggest problem is how to justify a barangay kagawad owning a beach house in the U.S. I am betting my 13th-month pay on this one. Oh, that was my tongue doing the betting, not my brain.
2. There are speculations and fear that this is only one way for GMA to avoid lawsuits and stage another big comeback to the palace by becoming a Prime Minister when the constitution is changed and maneuvered by all her allies in the lower house of congress, who by the way still compose a big chunk of legislators we continually elect to watch fist-fights in Vegas. Pro-administration people will say that many have come to love fiction so much and the telenovelas.
Given that GMA is elected and many of her allies are still in the legislature, it will be definitely a different story when it comes to the people who are set to take the seat of the executive branch of the government after May 2010. Most probably, it will be Noynoy Aquino or Manny Villar, but as sure as GMA cheated on the 2007 elections, it will not be Gilbert Teodoro. To this, GMA will work co-equal with other legislators and will not have a free hand to government funds and machinery to bribe and allies and threaten oppositionists. Her pork barrel is at the disposal of the new president. Therefore, she can plan to return to power, but it will be a very difficult task that lies ahead of her. Lots of political complexity at that time; different heads of government agencies like the PNP and AFP, and a different signature on government checks. But we all know those nine years as a president has for sure earned for her a very fat check book, very FAT. Hmmm…
3. The next president will take a daily dose of Ibuprofen and become the new endorser of pain killers and sleeping pills. GMA will give the next president the uneasiness he does not want as an executive. GMA will still be a thorn on his throat – a little Cabalen thorn that does not paralyze its victim but rather give it a good sense of daily paranoia. If Noynoy becomes the president, he will lose more hair (but I think Kris could handle this for him). If it’s Manny Villar, an alliance with GMA is not impossible with both of them dancing “Igiling-giling” during the presidential ball. If it is Erap Estrada, he should be wary when his second year in office comes near, he may once again end up fleeing away from the Presidential Palace through the Pasig River.
4. GMA running for a lower office though may eventually be decided as legal (remember, almost 90% of all justices in the Supreme Court were all her appointees) speaks only of a further affirmation of the ill of her personhood and governance. Her lapdogs will say that it is the people’s clamor for her to run, that she is still young and vibrant, that she can still serve more and continue her programs and she can still give the nation more reason for workers to leave the country; are all good words hiding hideous agenda. I remembered also when it was the people’s clamor too for her to jump off presidential jet while it was gliding through the stratosphere with so many corruption issues raised against her. She may have been busy listening to her I-pod that time playing “I Will Survive”.
She already had all the power and resources at her disposal as president to serve the people and provide the needs of the nation; now she is running for a lower post to serve the people and fully provide for their needs? Therefore, she hasn’t actually served as a worthwhile President, nothing more, nothing less. Her running for a lower post is definitely for survival and greed for power. It may be legal, but it is not the wisest, most prudent and dignified decision for her. Well, we have seen her having nothing of these sterling qualities the past years though she asked for our forgiveness.
Prodded about her motivation on seeking a much lower government position after becoming the President of this nation fro nine years, GMA said:
“I have come to realize that I can best serve the nation from a seat in Congress should I be elected.”
PoOf!!! If all you can reason out is that you can best serve this nation by being a legislator, then you should have stepped down many years ago and spared all of the 90 million Filipinos the constant headache of senseless poverty, vomiting due induced shamelessness and the daily utterances of the French language that has easily earned for many of us a business class ticket down to the netherworld come the day of reckoning (with her?).
Again, I am not at all worried if ever she wins as a congresswoman. But I am now sending out copies of my CVs to foreign employers.
How about you guys? Any thoughts about President Gloria Arroyo running for congress on May 2010? For Cabalens who visited and have read this post: will you vote for her; why, why not?
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jan geronimo
2 months ago
Elmot, we have survived her presidency, haven’t we? What’s a little congressional seat for our President? It’s entirely up to her cabalens to decide that, don’t you think so?
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elmot
2 months ago
I will differ on you on that one Bro. Survival is good…but survival is for the animal kingdom; the sphere of the jungle and all its lawlessness, struggle for the strongest and cunning instinct.
I am really pissed off on this issue because I am not settling for a mere “survival”…I am for a “meaningful existence”. And meaningful existence I think is not achieved when there are always constant threat to our collective and individual standard of living and national integrity.
Indeed, at the end of the day it will still be the Cabalens who will decide. But worth note-taking is that GMA decided the outcome of the elections last 2007 by cheating and not the Filipino nation. And today, her executive secretary has just confirmed: GMA’s real agenda in Congress is to pursue relentlessly Charter Change. And of course with her having a strong hold of the congress, becoming a Prime Minister or head of state soon is not impossible as her executive secretary suggested that we cannot stop GMA and politicians from doing what they want so long as it is “legal”
And what is legal does not necessarily mean moral.
jan geronimo
2 months ago
Perhaps you’ve misunderstood my cheeky comment, bro. Surviving from my end means not acquiescence or resignation to our lot. It’s not turning a blind eye to the bad things that happen to us. I’m merely taking comfort in the fact that no matter how brazenly cunning and toxic these politicians are they come and they go. And we remain, we survive.
At what cost to us as a nation, you’d say. Yes, I’d give you that. Perhaps it’s a naive belief we’d overcome. And we just might.
Surely, you’d hesitate to begrudge survivors of injustice and oppression some measure of victory however Pyhrric? No shame at all having survived every time one rises above one’s humanity. It’s a toast to their indomitable will to prevail.
Jhay
2 months ago
Makakarma din sya.
Magiging kahina-hinala lang ang lahat kapag matapos siyang manalo bilang Congresswoman ay maging Speaker of the House of Representatives pa siya.
Ibang usapan na talaga ito. Kung sino man ang magiging Presidente, hindi magiging madali ang kanyang magiging panunugkulan.
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elmot
2 months ago
Malalagay sa alanganin ang susunod na Presidente. At isang scenario pa ay ang hanapan ng butas ang susunod na Presidente at sampahan ng impeachment case, at sigurado tayo na madali itong magwawagi sa Kongreso, tulad ng ginawang pagpaplano ni GMA dati kay Erap.
Subalit ang maliwanag na isyu dito ay ang pagpapalit ng saligang batas na kung saan madaling magagawa ni GMA sa Kongreso at malaki ang posibilidad na bumalik siya sa pinakamataas na posisyong ng gobyerno.
Wala yata sa bokabolaryo ni GMA ang karma Bro; kung kahihiyan nga wala e.
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Roy
2 months ago
sabi nila, “kapag wala ka daw magandang sasabihin, huwag ka nang magsalita”
kaya, tatahimik na lang muna ako bro
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elmot
2 months ago
I understand Bro…medyo nahihinuha ko naman ang nilalaman ng iyong sasabihin eh…
By the way, under ka ba ng second district ng Pampanga kung saan tatakbo si GMA?
Hirap Sa Buhay
2 months ago
Hay…grabe na talaga to, pero naniniwala ako kung sakaling magiging prime minister si Gloria merong mga taong gagawa ng paraan para matanggal cia , dead or alive
elmot
2 months ago
At nakikita na na scenario yan ni Oscar Cruz…sa galit ng tao, for sure abangan ang susunod na People Power.
darbs
2 months ago
@Sir Roy, amen to that. Tahimik din ako. Dahil at the end of the day, who could stop her anyway, except herself.
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elmot
2 months ago
No one could stop her indeed, especially if what she is doing is within the legal bounds of the law…unfortunately, she does not want to stop either.
lemuel
2 months ago
you are correct, GMA’s run for congress is a clear example of greed and addiction to power. it is also possible, as you mentioned that villar may soon dance with her when the situation calls for it, remember, politics is always addition. i am truly grateful i can say that i did not vote for her before, even though there were risks of getting FPJ as president. hopefully by next year, i will have a clear decision on whom to vote for. how about you? have you chosen who to vote for president?
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elmot
2 months ago
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I like very much the paradigm that someone upon interviewed shared: GMA and that of Jesus tempted by Satan on the desert…with Jesus, he stood firm, while GMA tempted with power and prestige and wealth, she immediately grabbed it and lost herself in the process.
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Balty
2 months ago
I have my ideas on why GMA is running for Congress.
http://ytlab.blogspot.com/2009/12/top-ten-reasons-why-gma-is-running.html
Fortunately, I am registered at Las Pinas. However, I should warn my relatives in the 2nd district of Pampanga. Perhaps, my post will influence them (ASA PA!).
elmot
2 months ago
Thanks for the comment Balty.
Well, there is no harm on trying. Every little persuasiveness that we could use in order for GMA not to win the congressional seat is needed.
human hu cares for filipinos
1 month ago
is this is what she says?
“I have come to realize that I can best serve the nation from a seat in Congress should I be elected.”
serve?… best serve the nation?.. funny..!!.. gloria haven’t done something to change Philippines to progress.. she just make it worst..
she run for pres. or congresswoman to serve our nation?.. wow what a sweet promise..
but i think, she run so that our nation can serve her!…
just think Filipinos
“one word is enough for a wise man!…”
or should i say,
it’s enough, she(glorai) had her turn but do nothing…
can you still survive how the way she handle us Filipinos?…..
human hu cares for filipinos
1 month ago
a people who really really want to serve us Filipinos does not need any power…. or does not need something to be given back for her/him….
does it really need to be in the government position for you to serve in your nation?…
elmot
1 month ago
I agree, when she had actually been a big failure on serving the Filipino nation as a president, then why still run as a congresswoman?
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kamotechunks
2 days ago
kakalungkot lang.. harapharapan nang binababaoy ang batas pero walang nangyayari. bakit kaya? pagdasal nalang natin sila. hinde ako naniniwala sa impyerno pero sana meron nga.
elmot
2 days ago
Ang matindi nating problema dyan eh baka kakontsaba rin nila si Satanas or nabribe na rin ni Gloria, eheheh!
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