Confuse the enemy.
This could very well be how the government of the day is essaying its end-game strategy with less than 12 months left on its questioned tenure.
The day’s end will see Gloria Macapagal Arroyo unwrapping the merger political juggernaut of PALAKA, the Partido Lakas-KAMPI or if you want another whimsical acronym – BAKLA for Bagong KAMPI-Lakas.
This while the lapdoggish congressional allies of Mrs. Arroyo try to undertake a plenary railroading of the still alive Con-Ass con game with term extension up their sleeves, Resolution 1109 being disguised as an attempt to simply relax constitutional restrictions on alien ownership of business to spur economic growth drived by foreign capital inflow.
That Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is a headstrong and hands on chief executive there is no doubt.
Barring term extension, the question is after she steps down from office in June next year will she really to stepping down to retire and simply oversee her presidential library that’s being built in the Ateneo?
Or is the formation of her PALAKA or BAKLA going to be the vehicle for the installation of a proxy president in Noli De Castro with a Rasputinesque Vice President in the person of Eonaldo Puno, the current interior and local government secretary?
Puno has long been acknowledged as a ‘king-maker’, a political strategist and operator who cut his teeth first as understudy to Marcos-era interior ministry boss Jose Rono, and moved on to truly be his own power center, running the election-critical machinery of the DILG.
The DILG is not only critical in the ‘management of elections, it’s also the overseer of all local government executives plus the national police organization.
Now finally, Mr. Puno says he’s open to the idea of becoming the running mate of the thoroughly pliant Noli ‘Kabayan’ De Castro who’s most outstanding achievement is being doggedly loyal to GMA in obeisance to rule of law and constitutional pecking order.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090527-207330/Noli-Ronnie-tandem-up
To be fair to the current vice president, GMA certainly rued the day she had nominated Tito Guingona, Jr. as her VP after the “constructive resignation of Joseph Ejercito Estrada.
The independent-minded and nationalistic Guingona proved to be a painful thorn on Gloria’s side, refusing to be silent about shenanigans and patent misgovernance by the Philippines’ first female president.
De Castro has been a most agreeable VP, content at running the cut and dried socialized housing agencies given that their huge budgets allowed him to regularly appear in advocacy ads that that helped him maintain high popularity ratings.
So it will just be okay for Noli if GMA anoint him with the add-on that Puno will be his vice president-cum-handler.
Is that how things will shape up?
Popularity: 1% [?]
Could Flips be so ignorant as to believe that these politicians want their interest after all those corruptions, murders, and chaos?
to peterHangs: Is your question the same as asking if today’s politicians (most of them if not all of them) will still get re-elected ?
UP:
Remains to see if Peter has been banned by popular request of the “iyakin” crowd :lol:
Susmaryosep!
Pilipitnas is a nation besotted with the idea that lives lived on spotlight glare are somehow inherently superior to those lives lived in the shadow.
The current crop of trapos are nothing but starstruck idiots. Too bad, electorates are consumed with entertainment and blinded by the glare.
Hi peter.
You Filipino, may I ask?
Or are you Chinese, as your moniker suggests?
DING:
1)If the De Castro /Puno tandem win,Noli should double the Presidential Guards to guard his life.
2)How about KBL part 2(Kampi Basta Laban)
EQ
But, EQ, that would double the risks to de Castro!
EQ,
I am always hopeful that such prospect, dire as they are, do not come to pass.
It’s just that the signs that those in Malacanang are actively pursuing maneuvers that do not engender optimistic that transactional politics based on narrow interests are anathema to transforming our politics to be inclusive of the interests of the true sovereigns, the people.
What exactly do you mean by “transforming” our politics, Ding?
You seem to imply that “transforming our politics to be inclusive of the interests of the true sovereigns, the people” is one of our top aspirations as a people. But then this begs the question:
In the current system — a “democracy” last I heard — aren’t the people in principle already the true wielders of power?
It does not take a political “expert” to note that in the last 25 years, Filipinos actually VOTE for the members of the legislature as well as their executives (from the Barangay Tanod and mayors all the way up to the President itself). In other words, most officials already owe their legitimacy to The Popular Vote (ergo the “mandate” of the people).
In fact, if this weren’t the case (i.e. if the people’s opinion did not matter – as in a dictatorship), then why is so much money and time being invested to influence their opinion?
So what you say is something we aspire to “transform” to seems to me to be a current state as it stands, Ding.
So the next hard question for you, Ding given that we already observe some evidence that our aspirations as a people already IS, is this:
What exactly do we aspire to transform from?
So your criteria for an imperative to “transform” is the lack of representation of the “interests” of what you call the “true sovereigns” actually does not support a case to execute this “transformation” you envision, Ding.
Why change it if it ain’t broke?
Enlighten us plez. :D
I don’t think Ding will answer.
That’s because i alrady answered the question for him. :D
Please educate me why you say Noli will just be a proxy president for GMA when 2010 marks the end of diminutive Gloria’s term by then and the start of a new presidency.
Do you honestly think that Puno will make for a good Vice President only because he is reputed to be a ‘kingmaker’ or a Sulo Hotel political operator? Sometimes, the carpenter does not have to build his own house like a palace, must he? Sometimes, the driver doesn’t to drive his own Ford Expedition, does he?
So Puno is just that. We don’t know how well he can perform work as vice president unless otherwise there is a ‘higher scheme of things’.
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it, ALWAYS.” Mahatma Gandhi
Hope without Guarantee…
Bumagsak nga ang diktador-Marcos, pero ang kupad pa rin ang pag-asenso ng bansao. Napag-iiwanan pa rin ang Pilipinas kung kumpara sa Thailand, South Korea, marami pang ibang bansa. Our country needs jobs!!
Gloria Arroyo has found good Political Clones. The Political Clones,
if they win the Presidency, by hook or by crook. Will assure that
all the graft and corruption issues will never be investigated. She
and her family will not have to go on exile to foreign countries. They are assured of their loots and their future. The stolen money
is safe.
What a good way to provide for your future…
The conspiracy theories keep coming.
First, martial law was imminent. That claim lasted for a long time. And the media felt such a chilling effect that they wrote incessantly about it (and still do).
Then, it was cha-cha = no elections, term extensions. This phantom lives, too.
Now, it’s Noli = GMA’s proxy…but only if he lets Puno call the shots.
Yeah, OK. Noli can’t win without kowtowing to GMA? The opposition wouldn’t love for him to head their ticket? It seems doubtful that a demand for Puno as VP (and puppeteer) could be rammed down the throat of the still very popular vote-magnet Noli.
It seems many discussions revolve around the paranoid fantasies being sold through/by a very willing media.
The reality is that one side has built a large political machine that spans the nation and all levels…but it needs — and doesn’t have — it’s own new, AND popular, leader. On the other side, leaders abound…but there is no professionally organized, unified, grassroots machine. If you were Noli, what would you do???
Ultimately, regardless of Noli’s decision, everyone can vote…and we’ll see how this all turns out. Oh, but wait…Gus Lagman and friends say the machines will be corrupted; that this is a big fix. So no matter who wins (probably with a minority share of the votes), someone can say the other guy cheated. Accusations with little proof ensue.
And on and on the gossip goes, suckers being led by the nose…..
These people were not elected. They are in position because they
cheated in the previous election. They will cheat again, for sure…
Are you referring to Enrile? Noli? GMA? Among Ed? Chiz? Villar? Binay?
careful, that can turn out into a “nation of suckers” :D
Apparently a legislature composed of elected-by-popular-vote representatives of the “people’s will” begged to differ that any such cheating actually occurred. :D
The last elections were fixed? By whom? “Team Unity”??? Which suffered in the Senatorial races? Or by “Go”? Which fared very poorly in local elections?
Ahhhh, maybe you mean 2004? Hah. Everyone forgets that the results reflected the pre-election and exit polls and that the CBCP and all the watchdogs were content with the processes during the election. Then came the Garci Tapes. Those tapes were adulterated and PET’s recounting of the VP votes showed no meaningful anomalies.
Like I said, we must avoid being duped by ALL politicians and their friendly media. If we just let everyone throw irresponsible and unsubastantiated accusations around, it is WE who lose.
Don’t be a sucker; stop and make a reality check.
What indeed would be the correct reading of the Noli-Puno duo?
Puppet to a puppeteer? Puppeteer to a web of puppetry?
Maybe yes if we read Noli as a ‘less thinking president’. But what if he could suddenly metamorphose into something else?
How about the puppeteer? All I know about the man is he is an event organizer. He can call a ‘miting de abanse’ and the mob go home with filled stomachs and some cash tokens (rumors have it)and littered styrofoams are all over the place.
In fact, I thought he is running as mayor of a city in Rizal where his brother is a congressman.
And lastly, a web of puppetry. What does this mean? Can they still sort of ‘prostitute’ the judiciary? Post-GMA regime scenario focuses on just one thing – immunity – that no one jails like Erap.
Noli-Puno – same old sh*t, diff*rent day – the same trapos that mesmerize the skinnerian brutes that have lots the ability for an authentic human experience .
the story sells, as suckers keep buying :lol:
They recently Clone a Transgenic Monkey in Japan. Maybe GMA can
also Clone a Transgenic Politician. To rival the Japanese Scientists.
maraming transgenic peryodista at media-consultant, pero ang tunay ay mga bolero!
On line news reports are now reporting that the “merger of Lakas and Kampi political parties is the assurance that there will be elections next year,” with attribution to Mrs. Arroyo.
Abangan.
All these people in high places think they are the only people that make this country move forward. They are a bunch of you know what.
That’s because the Skinnerian brutes are behaving like dogs – the onlly use for the brain is to get transfixed on the boob tube – salivating at the crumbs shown by their masters :lol:
Bong,
Did you know of this email circulated about Noli sometime in the past?
If you will be able to find it, let me know.
Not too few people know this so-called AC/DC – I just wanna know anything about this.
By the way, do you think the automation project of COMELEC would be a disaster?
Primer:
AC/DC – Attack and Collect / Defend and Collect.
Noli de Castro ran into headwinds while doing a story on PICOP in Surigao, Mindanao. allegedly, it was a show the grease or else PICOP will be placed in a bad light on MGB. PICOP called the bluff.
Noli sent the MGB crew to PICOP, Surigao. The PICOP guards smashed the MGB crew’s videocam. The PICOP PR machinery went on high gear and revealed an AC/DC attempt by Noli De Castro.
Noli backed off :lol:
bong,
I am glad you seem to know a lot however far-sightedly.
Would that be all?
Primer:
PICOP was a client of mine. :)
A lot of the ABS-CBN producers and directors in Davao (including regional programming) are my batchmates – and one of the directors was a buddy when I was in the business of making independent video documentaries – long before there was a history channel.
The former PDI Mindanao News Bureau (now MindaNews) chief is also a good friend. The Sunstar news columnists are contemporaries in the school down south.
not to mention – there is always GOOGLE – http://asianfanatics.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=8479&mode=threaded
Haka-haka Central.
Tell me Ding, if tis”merger” happens, what will be the platform of ideas that this “merged” political “party” will stand for? What will be their ideology or guiding principles as a political force?
When is anybody going to ask those types of questions?
Because if none such questions are asked of the bozos who form those fly-by-night parties, then they will continue to do the stuff that “reporters” like you and the rest of the Philippine “Press” FEED on like cockroaches. :D
Tiyak ko na sa ‘talino’ di mo kailangan tanungin pa ako para insultuhin lang.
Bong,
Thank you so much for obliging.
Was it you who brought pobreng alindahaw here? Is there migration somewhere from PPN?
Refresh my memory please about pobreng alindahaw, if you’re free.
Primer:
Actually, it’s the other way around. PNA complained his comments were being moderated by people who can’t stand his street-smart lingo.
I think this was during the height of the right-of-reply bill – he posted some links – and I clicked on it.
Now as to pabreng pobz on FV, eto yung basa ko.
If FV were america, Nick would be the native american. all the rest of us are migrants. ;)
Bong your info is A1.
No further comment, bong. You said it like it is.
I’m not sure though if that amounts to pobre being just another american native?
FV is then like a dog that extends from america to imperial manila – its tail in the west and its head in the east.
Somebody must be pinching the dog’s tail, reason it barks here all of the time – angst, frustrations, slurs, swear words, all crap. I don’t know bong but that sure does not include you.
Primer:
That means, Nick is the owner – we are all guests here.
The native americans made up the “First Nation” that roamed the continental US, everyone who came afterward – anglo-saxon, asian, african – are guests… migrants.
FV is a microcosm of Philippine society. It shows the stark contrasts between world views.
So, one hand, there is a culture of apathy and cynicism which feeds off on headlines that highlight the mediocre, the corrupt, the scandalous, and the fury of lynch mobs and all the gory details.
On the other hand there is a culture of no-nonsense can-do go-getters. GK for instance is modeled from Habitat for Humanity. As members of the all-american federation of Fil-Am non-profits under The United Way, some Pinoys overseas have learned to be creative, dynamic, engaged, and focused in their various advocacies – the medical missions, the scholarship drives, the adopt-a-school, the disaster-relief drives, the fundraisers – all of which are felt by the various communities they serve. New techniques, frameworks, tactics, and strategies that have exciting possibilities for empowerment and change.
But these stories aren’t controversial and will not generate readership. And the media, instead of raising the level of awareness of the readers, panders instead to the more primeval stories that address the emotions instead of the mind. Which means, one oftentimes has to shout louder to get the message across to a distracted mind.
Clearly, the perspective can range from one end to another and all the shades of gray in between.
And I believe that is healthy .
Ronnie Puno in quote; “I did not campaign for people to make money. I did not come out a single centavo richer; I came out richer in the fact that my candidate won and the programs I wanted for the country were set in motion. ”http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090527-207330/Noli-Ronnie-tandem-up : I think Ronnie Puno’s overall statement about his previous tenure from the three presidents are blurry, insufficient, and hypocritical in nature. The legacy of these presidents were merely questionable to the welfare of Filipino people, although Ramos started some good things in our country, but the succeeding leadership of Erap and Arroyo surely killed the spirit of our good pioneers. I dont know what Puno’s was claiming, but I know one thing I know, he’s a good strategist and playmaker just to win a few but not for the nation interest.
Anybody else must say something more about Puno – as matter of urgency, anyone please?
well.. if Puno has always been the bridesmaid or the kingmaker – ain’t it about time he becomes the bride or the king
Abangan, Prime.
sa tingin ko, masyadong mababaw pa ang pagsusuri para masabing magiging proxy president lang si Noli. alam kong tuso si Gloria, pero hindi rin naman papahuli si Noli. may mga nakatago rin iyang alas. hindi pa lang niya inilalabas dahil madudurog kaagad siya sa bakuran ni Gloria.
isa pa, mukhang hindi maganda ang acronym na BAKLA. parang nilalait mo ang mga bakla niyan.
That exactly is the point, Noli should now open his aces, if he has any, and let the test begin.
Time will not make that stronger than it really is.