none. the president was made to look foolish and desperate and pathetic. and i’m being charitable by blaming it on her subordinates.

LOL. it isn’t characteristic of her to make such a miscalculation.

djb,

Virtually no one gives the 4th impeachment attempt on GMA an ice drop’s chance in hell. But why some enterprising Congressman has not tried to impeach the Ombudsman, Merceditas Gutierez escapes me.

good point.

We really need a comprehensive Whistleblower Protection Law that empowers the million-man government work force to become watchdogs over the government and its ample resources.

well… because there is no incentive to congress.

Jocjoc is a marked man. I wouldn’t want to be in shoes.

indeed. he’ll cling to arroyo and sink and float with that ship.

The question foremost in the minds of legislators is why antagonize the Ombudsman? They know they will never get the numbers to impeach her anyway. Remember congress was afraid of disierto too.

If we want anything to happen we have to do it ourselves. We cannot rely on congress anymore to do anything for us. The opposition in the House is dead. The LPs might as well rejoin the Atienza wing and the other parties might as well join Kampi.
The only reps who endorsed the latest impeachment were the reds and only on the condition that the MOA-AD, the strongest possible ground, not be included. We are on our own buddy.

Without impeachment as a viable tool of Congressional oversight and judicial power, we do not have a functioning system of Checks and Balances in the government, especially where the Executive has captured the Judiciary. Even those who support Gloria now will realize that this is not good, when the shoe is on the Other Foot, as inevitably it will be, one day.

The sheer inability to bring to closure something as well documented and investigated as the Fertilizer Fund Scam — by no less than the very Senate itself! — this is a serious sign of dysfunction that can be laid at the President’s feet. For it is she at the very heart of the coverups, whitewashes and serial fugitivism by key allies and/or operatives who should be govt witnesses of plunder, systemic corruption, election fraud, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.

An American rebuff will bring us down from our levitation and give us some rewarding insight that we have deficiences as a people or as a nation and therefore we must struggle hard to get noticed by powerful nations.

The simple reason for the snub was that we have no oil and we cannot export nuclear materials, and with the way we run the country, we have absolutely no credentials why powerful countries should flatter us. :)