Merry-Go-Round: Floro L. Mercene
SENATORS and militants launch new resign movement. GMA is being nailed to the cross again. Jesus was luckier because He was crucified only once.
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Christ will rise from the dead on Sunday. The President will perform the same miracle in July when we shift to a parliamentary system.
From President of an old regime to Prime Minister of a new one.
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Her critics want GMA to do a Thaksin, who resigned as PM after a good talk with the King of Thailand.
GMA’s situation is different. She fought Da King fair and square and Da King died afterwards.
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Unhappy groups want GMA to step down and submit to a snap election. What if she wins again and Noli remains her Vice President? It’s back to square one.
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Lumen Policarpio, who was laid to rest last week, epitomized Filipina beauty and brains. It can now be revealed that among her ardent suitors in her young days were strongman Juan Peron of Argentina and President Sukarno of Indonesia.
Ask her son Jimmie Policarpio for the fascinating details.
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ADB says RP should not rely on the yearly dollar remittances of OFWs alone to achieve higher economic growth.
13 billion dollars a year ain’t peanuts. We will keep exporting them.
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Budget Secretary can produce R2.6 billion for plebiscite. We can get the money from the same place where you got the yes vote for Cha-cha.
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Malacañang’s deal with local officials: Pass the people’s initiative and we will extend your terms up to 20l0.
You got a deal, but where’s the incentive?
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There is a proposal that the AFP Chief of Staff and the PNP Director General should have fixed terms in order to isolate them from politics.
If the incoming President does not like their faces, he cannot replace them. Problem.
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AFP Chief General Senga wants to reduce civilian control over the military by limiting confirmation powers of CoA over military officers.
Let sleeping dogs lie, general. Our system of check and balance is working, why knock it.
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GMA will step down in 2010 with or without Cha-cha. And not a minute longer.
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Mayor Sonny Belmonte is standing fast on his opposition to STL in Quezon City on the ground that government has no business sponsoring gambling in any form.
A barb aimed at Malacañang, aray.
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Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago wants candidates for elective posts to have a four-year college degree.
A move to get rid of the bums in the body politic. Let’s adopt it.
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Constitutional reforms provide the legal, non-violent, democratic, and do-able option, given the current sentiments at the grassroots level, where there is an ever-swelling clamor for change from ordinary folks fed up with their current rut and the incessant partisan politicking and showboating by many of their national leaders.
Charter reform is a non-partisan option that has earned negative points only because of the ill motives imputed to the idea by some politicians who are either reluctant to embrace change or have their personal interests to protect.
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Constitutional reform certainly is the wave of the future as indicated by a confluence of events in and out of government.
In the House, Speaker Joe de Venecia reports that they only need 35 more signatures to push through with their plan to propose amendments to the 1987 Constitution via the constituent assembly route, as 160 lawmakers have already joined the Cha-cha bandwagon.
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