Reading online newspapers today, we have the following good side of the news, if I may:

One, TF is cleared. Assistant City Prosecutor Mary Pamittan dismissed the charge against TF, et al for violations of pertinent sections of PD 1829. Apparently, the argument flows from the observation that the authorities must first determine if a crime was committed before anyone could be charged of obstruction of justice. This must be answered prayers from Korina Sanchez for one, and for many other TF listeners.

Two. GT runs dark-horse. The defense secretary Gilberto Teodoro is set to run for 2010 with at least a TV ad already hitting the screen. It is hoped that it will soon be formally announced that GT will be the anointed one of Malacanang. Columnist Julius Fortuna thinks “Teodoro has conveyed the image of a daring upstart” in the fashion of Baruch Obama. It bears watching how he would weather low ratings for now and the unifying factor of a yet uncoalescing coalition of Lakas and Kampi.

Three. MP bats for Congress yet again. Manny Pacquiao’s party-list, People’s Champ Movement is set to be accredited by the COMELEC unless it yet finds any ground for it to be disapproved. Barring none, a two-prong approach hits the ground running: Pacman bats for congressional seat in Sarangani than in General Santos as his brainchild party-list likewise rides the crest. This might mean a single investment for two-dimensional rates of return.

But just to spice things up a bit, can we please just browse over what part of Amb. Ernesto Maceda has spelled out in his today’s column to wit?

Four. “No wonder political appointments are not usually announced.” The good columnist made mention of the appointment of a certain appointee as epitomizing the poor quality of presidential appointees in that there seems to be no more background checking or vetting prior to appointment by GMA. Certainly, Maceda has likewise decried that epidemic of more and more military and PNP generals being appointed to career civilian positions thus probably ‘bastardizing’ the civil service career system.

All told, this has been such a lazy day with only about a half attending session in the House of Representatives since some of them are in an extended vacation of sort. We heard that they likewise went through the ‘thermal scanner’ as they exit NAIA. True enough, it is better to be safe than sorry.

We hope things become better before they become worse especially in the political landscape. We sure hate to see more of the same with the entry of new congressional leaders, some 32 of them added to the already overcrowded chamber – an ‘echo chamber’, no less. We sure hate to realize that at the Senate front, they are busy debating which Rules of the Chamber to adopt – the US-copied Rules of Senate, the Old Rules of the Senate, or the New Rules of the Senate – as if no permissible debate can yet start until after the Rules are well agreed.

The menu at the Senate table that they themselves will feast on is, we are told, on how to approach the controversy over Villar with such contemplation as to the possibility of inflicting expulsion of a Senate member, if determination warrants. From where I stand, the snafu will drag a little bit longer than the matter can be neatly presented for deliberations.

Point is, trust the new Senate President that something good comes out from this ‘feud’.

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