DEMAREE J.B. RAVAL
Stupidity all over
Sunday, 06 07, 2009
Last Tuesday took all of seven hours in asinine deliberations for the House of Representatives to expose itself for what the public has known all along: A chamber of stupid politicians mindless of the consequences of their decisions. This time, it was the Constitution that they were trying to mutilate, maim, disfigure and damage, 24 hours before they were to go on sine die adjournment.
It was a blitzkrieg that overwhelmed the House minority members with the overwhelming, tyrannical numbers of the deliberately obtuse majority. Anak ng buwaya! — these guys really took all the points for being desperate, stupid, dumb, dense and unintelligent. The constituent assembly (con-ass) issue was supposed to have been dead in the water, what with the dramatic withdrawal of Rep. Luis Villafuerte.
The stupidity of Nograles and his bunch of mercenary satraps lies in their insensitivity to the public pulse, their reckless misreading of the Constitution, and their shameless violation of their own House rules. But then that’s what mercenaries are — they do things for pay and not for love of country. By steamrollering the adoption of proposed House Resolution 1109 — convening Congress into a con-ass, to propose amendments to the Constitution, without the Senate’s concurrence in a separate vote — the members of the House belonging to the monolithic coalition of politicians sympathetic to the Arroyo administration will reap material benefits that are beyond the dreams of avarice. (Hey, congressman! How does P20 million grab you?)
They have also done a great disservice to the nation, and will reap the whirlwind in the coming days.
There is something in the hubris that infects politicians like Nograles and his ilk to be blind to the people’s outrage against decisions that strike at their sense of justice. The mindless agenda to inflict President Arroyo on the people for many more years albeit under a different position title is the biggest injustice. How stupid of them not to catch even a glimmer of the outrage of the people. The spontaneous protest actions that followed could very well swell to unmanageable magnitudes in the coming days. Already, a religious group has threatened to mobilize its seven million members. The students are back in school; they will add to the numbers that will beat HR 1109 to a pulp.
Under the guise of introducing amendments to lift the restrictive clauses of the Constitution, to make the Philippines competitive in attracting foreign investments, HR 1109 insults a nation of 90 million Filipinos who are made to appear as stupid and unable to discern what Nograles and his mercenary bunch actually want to achieve. Pray, tell, how does one connect term extension to acquisition by aliens of real property? Nograles, et al. may not be stupid after all. Crafty and sinister may be more like it.
And the nation is not that stupid to believe the congressmen will foreswear term extensions for anyone, including Arroyo, and that there will be elections in 2010. That may be true in the verbiage of HR 1109, but the people know better: Arroyo, Nograles, et al. will not be extended in the same office they are now holding, but they will be the same dogs — or bitches, as the case may be — with a different collar. Thus, we see a President Arroyo becoming a Member of Parliament Arroyo then segueing to a Prime Minister Arroyo.
How stupid of Nograles and his mercenary bunch to disregard the Senate in the constitutional scheme of things. Already, the senators have retaliated through proposed Senate Resolution 154 declaring that “any attempt of the House of Representatives to unilaterally propose amendments or revisions of the Constitution without the approval of the Senate, voting three-fourths separately, is unconstitutional.” With that, how dense can Nograles and his mercenary bunch be, in believing that they could go ahead, on their own? Here’s the simple logic: One cannot dance the Cha-cha by himself; he has to have a willing partner. On the other hand, it is not simple math, like adding 250 to 24 to arrive at the three-fourths threshold vote called for by the Constitution. That picture of Enrile, Pimentel, and the other senators in a kapit-bisig stance is a strong assurance that the stupidity of Nograles, et al. shall not be inflicted on the nation.
And on a minor yet terribly stupid detail, this mercenary bunch presumed that its proposed amendments to the Constitution can be submitted to the people for ratification, without funds therefor allocated with the concurrence of the Senate! Does the Commission on Elections have the wherewithal to undertake such a plebiscite?
So how can anyone be more stupid than these administration allies who expect a favorable decision from a Supreme Court upholding the validity of the proposed mode of amending the Constitution as outlined in HR 1109. With the likes of Puno and Carpio manning the ramparts of the Constitution to protect it against stupid politicians out to mangle it, how can Nograles and his stupid bunch ever expect the court to side with them when they decide on that ampaw of a petition of a Lozano?
The people have learned their lesson: They will never allow again a Supreme Court to rule that there is no further judicial obstacle to a Constitution being in force and effect. Javellana is still much too ingrained in their minds, that they will not allow an Arroyo to repeat that feat of Marcos in 1973.
But wait — perhaps there is a method to this stupid madness. It could be that the Serene Puppeteer in the Palace has pulled the strings on Nograles and his greedy bunch to ram through HR 1109 in order to create a nationwide state of mayhem confusion. When that happens, what could be more expedient than the declaration of martial law?
See? Somebody may not be that stupid after all.
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Last Tuesday took all of seven hours in asinine deliberations for the House of Representatives to expose itself for what the public has known all along: A chamber of stupid politicians mindless of the consequences of their decisions. This time, it was the Constitution that they were trying to mutilate, maim, disfigure and damage, 24 hours before they were to go on sine die adjournment.
It was a blitzkrieg that overwhelmed the House minority members with the overwhelming, tyrannical numbers of the deliberately obtuse majority. Anak ng buwaya! — these guys really took all the points for being desperate, stupid, dumb, dense and unintelligent. The constituent assembly (con-ass) issue was supposed to have been dead in the water, what with the dramatic withdrawal of Rep. Luis Villafuerte.
The stupidity of Nograles and his bunch of mercenary satraps lies in their insensitivity to the public pulse, their reckless misreading of the Constitution, and their shameless violation of their own House rules. But then that’s what mercenaries are — they do things for pay and not for love of country. By steamrollering the adoption of proposed House Resolution 1109 — convening Congress into a con-ass, to propose amendments to the Constitution, without the Senate’s concurrence in a separate vote — the members of the House belonging to the monolithic coalition of politicians sympathetic to the Arroyo administration will reap material benefits that are beyond the dreams of avarice. (Hey, congressman! How does P20 million grab you?)
They have also done a great disservice to the nation, and will reap the whirlwind in the coming days.
There is something in the hubris that infects politicians like Nograles and his ilk to be blind to the people’s outrage against decisions that strike at their sense of justice. The mindless agenda to inflict President Arroyo on the people for many more years albeit under a different position title is the biggest injustice. How stupid of them not to catch even a glimmer of the outrage of the people. The spontaneous protest actions that followed could very well swell to unmanageable magnitudes in the coming days. Already, a religious group has threatened to mobilize its seven million members. The students are back in school; they will add to the numbers that will beat HR 1109 to a pulp.
Under the guise of introducing amendments to lift the restrictive clauses of the Constitution, to make the Philippines competitive in attracting foreign investments, HR 1109 insults a nation of 90 million Filipinos who are made to appear as stupid and unable to discern what Nograles and his mercenary bunch actually want to achieve. Pray, tell, how does one connect term extension to acquisition by aliens of real property? Nograles, et al. may not be stupid after all. Crafty and sinister may be more like it.
And the nation is not that stupid to believe the congressmen will foreswear term extensions for anyone, including Arroyo, and that there will be elections in 2010. That may be true in the verbiage of HR 1109, but the people know better: Arroyo, Nograles, et al. will not be extended in the same office they are now holding, but they will be the same dogs — or bitches, as the case may be — with a different collar. Thus, we see a President Arroyo becoming a Member of Parliament Arroyo then segueing to a Prime Minister Arroyo.
How stupid of Nograles and his mercenary bunch to disregard the Senate in the constitutional scheme of things. Already, the senators have retaliated through proposed Senate Resolution 154 declaring that “any attempt of the House of Representatives to unilaterally propose amendments or revisions of the Constitution without the approval of the Senate, voting three-fourths separately, is unconstitutional.” With that, how dense can Nograles and his mercenary bunch be, in believing that they could go ahead, on their own? Here’s the simple logic: One cannot dance the Cha-cha by himself; he has to have a willing partner. On the other hand, it is not simple math, like adding 250 to 24 to arrive at the three-fourths threshold vote called for by the Constitution. That picture of Enrile, Pimentel, and the other senators in a kapit-bisig stance is a strong assurance that the stupidity of Nograles, et al. shall not be inflicted on the nation.
And on a minor yet terribly stupid detail, this mercenary bunch presumed that its proposed amendments to the Constitution can be submitted to the people for ratification, without funds therefor allocated with the concurrence of the Senate! Does the Commission on Elections have the wherewithal to undertake such a plebiscite?
So how can anyone be more stupid than these administration allies who expect a favorable decision from a Supreme Court upholding the validity of the proposed mode of amending the Constitution as outlined in HR 1109. With the likes of Puno and Carpio manning the ramparts of the Constitution to protect it against stupid politicians out to mangle it, how can Nograles and his stupid bunch ever expect the court to side with them when they decide on that ampaw of a petition of a Lozano?
The people have learned their lesson: They will never allow again a Supreme Court to rule that there is no further judicial obstacle to a Constitution being in force and effect. Javellana is still much too ingrained in their minds, that they will not allow an Arroyo to repeat that feat of Marcos in 1973.
But wait — perhaps there is a method to this stupid madness. It could be that the Serene Puppeteer in the Palace has pulled the strings on Nograles and his greedy bunch to ram through HR 1109 in order to create a nationwide state of mayhem confusion. When that happens, what could be more expedient than the declaration of martial law?
See? Somebody may not be that stupid after all.
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