Maliban sa mga dikit kay Gloria Arroyo na takot mawala ang kanilang tinatamasang nakaw na kapangyarihan at kayamanan, karamihan sa mga Filipino ay ayaw palitan ang Constitution ngayon dahil magagamit yan ni Arroyo upang hindi umalis sa Malacañang.
Kaya ang sigaw ngayon ay “Ayaw ko ng Cha-Cha, lalo na si Gloria.”
Sangayon ako diyan. Ngunit ang tanong: kung mapigilan ang cha-cha, ano ang susunod?
Many have been asking about rallies where they can express their outrage over the thrashing of the impeachment complaint and the charter change drive that…
Malaya report:
A separate resolution on the mode for Charter Change being circulated by Rep. Juan Miguel Arroyo (Lakas, Pampanga) was also signed by 150 congressmen, a source from the majority bloc said.
The resolution, which calls for the convening of a Constituent Assembly (Con-ass), is authored by Kampi president and Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte, the source said.
Inquirer: Mikey leads cha-cha bid
This is what the five bishops warned about just three weeks ago: Gloria Arroyo will ram Charter Change down the people’s throats.
The report from the House of Representatives yesterday said House resolution 737 amending the economic provision of the Constitution has been signed by 163 congressmen. House Speaker Prospero Nograles, who authored the resolution, needs only 15 more signatures to meet the required 175 signatures, representing three-fourth of the House of Representatives to bring the resolution to the Committee on Constitutional Amendments, then to the plenary..
The Cha-Cha train is cranking up and is expected to leave the station in the coming days to a destination beyond 2010.
As I’m writing this, Malaya’s House reporter, Wendell Vigilia, sent a summary report that House Resolution 737, amending economic provision of the Constitution that would allow 100 percent owenership has now 163 signatures.
They need 175 signatures to bring it to take it up in the committee level, then to the plenary. They need only 12 signatures more. Kayang-kaya yan.
The Cha-Cha train has cranked up . Tsug…tsug… tsug…tsug…tsug…tsug…Beyond 2010.
Malaya’s story today :
Hindi ginusto ni Manny Villar na matanggal sa pagka- senate president ngunit maaring makakabuti pa sa kanyang political career itong nangyari.
Alam naman natin lahat na may plano si Villar na tumakbo para presidente sa 2008. Kaya nga siya kinukuyog ng ibang may ambisyon rin kasi bilang senate president, may lamang siya. Hindi lamang sa budget ng senado kung di na rin sa media mileage dahil lahat na nangyayari sa senado, dumadaan sa kanya. Nababanggit ang pangalan palagi.
Ngayon na hindi na siya senate president, hindi na masasabi ng iba pang presidentiables – Senators Ping Lacson, Mar Roxas at Loren Legarda – na lamang sa kanila si Villar.
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.
by Jocelyn Montemayor
Malaya
“We pray for the President, that she may have forbearance, good health, and tolerance to lead this nation until 2010, and who knows, perhaps even beyond,” Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said yesterday as he recited his prayer at the start of the Cabinet meeting.
“Oh my God!” and a glare were what Dureza got from a shocked President Arroyo, who covered her face.
At the end of the prayer, a smiling Arroyo asked media men who were allowed to cover that portion of the meeting to leave the room as she said “that prayer is off the record.”
Napadalas yata ang biyahe ni Gloria Arroyo sa Amerika, ah.
Noong Septiembre nandoon din siya kahit na katakot-takot na batikos ang nakuha niya sa biyahe niya doon noong Hunyo sa gitna ng bagyong “Frank”.
Kagabi umalis na naman siya papuntang New York para raw dumalo sa Interfaith conference. Nakahanap lang siya ng rason para pumunta ulit sa Amerika.
The head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) rejected over the weekend Malacañang’s call for a political ceasefire, once again stressing that the issue was about corruption.
CBCP president and Jaro archbishop Angel Lagdameo said the call for a change in government that he and four other bishops made is not for political but for moral change.
“Kung ang ating sinasabi ay pagpuna sa mga maling gawain, hindi lang naman yan sa government kundi sa lahat na pati sa lahat ng antas or level ng ating society. Sapagkat ang corruption ay hindi lang naman nasa gobyerno kundi maging sa iba’t-ibang antas ng ating society,” Lagdameo said over Church-run Radio Veritas.
by Joel Rocamora
Akbayan Chairman
The bishops did it. Their call for a “new government”, then building hope around “liberators” who are “just around the corner” got everyone worked up. A “new government” in advance of the 2010 elections, of course, means the extra constitutional removal of the Arroyo administration. Everyone assumes the bishops are not talking of the Second Coming. Maybe those knights in shining armor who are a long time coming.
Conspiracy theorists are having a field day. The impeachment initiative, chacha, and the arrival of Jocjoc Bolante primed the public for the bishops’ statement. Are these moves linked? Is there a master conspiracy behind these linked moves? Did the bishops light the fuse for a coming explosion? Is it a short or a long fuse? The nice thing about conspiracy theories is that we can enjoy dramatic tension even if we cannot find out if there’s anything to the theory.