Hardheaded Noynoy in trouble
President Noynoy is in deep trouble—there’s another, much more descriptive word for “trouble” but I’d rather not use it—with the Supreme Court ruling that he violated the Constitution with his Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP).
No sir, the impeachment will not push through in the House of “Representathieves” since he has many supporters there.
And those who are not his supporters in the House could easily be bribed, like what his predecessor, the small but terrible Gloria, did when she faced impeachment during her term.
P-Noynoy will go the way of Gloria. Plunder and other criminal cases will come after he steps down in 2016.
What he’s now doing to Gloria will be done unto him as well when he’s out of power and abandoned by people he calls “friends.”
The President can mark that in his calendar of the future.
For that is how karma or poetic justice works: One reaps what he sows.
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The President’s ignoble intentions which he couches with his slogan of fighting corruption will come to haunt him when he’s out of power.
P-Noy’s real motive in going after supposedly corrupt government officials like Chief Justice Renato Corona and former President Gloria is revenge.
We have a vindictive President who uses his power to go after political and personal enemies: Corona for being Gloria’s “stooge”; Gloria for depriving his mother, Cory, of bodyguards after Ms Aquino called for Gloria’s resignation in the wake of the “Hello Garci” scandal, and for the apportioning of the Cojuangco/Aquino-owned Hacienda Luisita because of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
P-Noynoy is as vindictive as his mother who went after the Marcoses and their cronies because President Ferdinand Marcos sent her husband, Sen. Benigno Aquino, to jail.
And also because Cory suspected Ferdie of masterminding Ninoy’s assassination.
Yes, Gloria should be prosecuted for her past crimes.
But Corona? He was persecuted for his association with Gloria. His misdeclaration of his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth was just made an excuse.
P-Noynoy’s actions regarding Corona and Gloria were right, but his intentions were wrong.
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Apparently to make him look good, the President told reporters that Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, who’s been charged with plunder, should be treated with deference because of his advanced age.
He said he prefers hospital detention for Enrile.
But I heard differently from a member of the Presidential Security Group.
The presidential guard said he overheard P-Noynoy saying that Enrile should bear the brunt of the law because the old man was responsible for the assassination of his father.
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The President apparently didn’t consult legal minds in his Cabinet, like Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
De Lima, a brilliant lawyer (No. 8 in the 1985 Bar exams), would have advised him against committing an unconstitutional act like disbursing people’s money through the DAP.
Noynoy’s hardheadedness (matigas ang ulo) has brought him trouble.
