Twisted thinking
Just because Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno didn’t accept the “invitation” of the House of Representatives to question her on the Judiciary Development Fund (JDF), some congressmen want her impeached.
Aren’t these congressmen ashamed to be tagged P-Noynoy’s lapdogs?
The House committee on justice’s summons to Sereno to appear before it apparently stemmed from the Supreme Court’s ruling that the President’s Development Acceleration Fund (DAP) was unconstitutional.
The congressmen, particularly the members of the committee on justice, want P-Noynoy to know that they would do anything to please him, including jumping into the Pasig River if he asked them to.
After all, wasn’t Malacañang the benefactor of the legislators’ Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), their No. 1 source of graft, and before the high court’s ruling, the DAP?
The congressmen know that by summoning the Chief Justice they would be trampling upon the coequality principle among the executive, legislative and judiciary branches of government. But the heck with the principle—they want to lick Mr. Aquino’s boots!
They want to let P-Noynoy know that they’re capable of getting back at Sereno, an Aquino appointee in the Supreme Court, for behaving like an ingrate when she voted against the DAP.
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The impeachment and ouster of Sereno’s predecessor, Renato Corona, was a precedent.
It was the first time in the country’s history that a Chief Justice was ousted by Congress.
After tasting Corona’s blood, the legislature—or at least some of its members—want to draw more blood from the other branches of government.
They have adopted the “us against them” stance vis-à-vis the other branches of government.
Some legislators want to let it be known to all and sundry that they have the power over the Supreme Court because they can always impeach any of its members at the drop of a pin.
Some government people’s thinking is twisted.
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Another “twisted” high official—and I don’t mean mentally deranged—is Interior Secretary Mar Roxas.
Roxas would want the Constitution violated to extend President Noynoy’s term for another six years.
The Constitution provides for only one six-year term for the President.
Roxas apparently wants P-Noynoy’s term extended because he doesn’t stand a chance against Vice President Jojo Binay if the presidential elections were to be held tomorrow.
And so to spite Binay, who’s been salivating over the highest position of the land, Roxas has come up with the utterly ridiculous proposal.
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All this squabble in Manila makes one remember Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte’s now famous quote:
“The trouble with us in government is that we talk too much, act too slow and do too little.”
