P-NOY?S CODE OF CONDUCT of his administration that he recited at his inaugural Wednesday at the Quirino Grandstand can be summed up in one word: Discipline.

?No more junkets, no more senseless spending. No more turning back on pledges made during the campaign, whether today or in the coming challenges that will confront us over the next six years. No more influence-peddling, no more patronage politics, no more stealing. No more sirens, no more shortcuts, no more bribes,? he said.

But before he recited his administration?s code of conduct, the new President made a populist advocacy that has endeared him to the people: He would not tolerate the use of sirens (?no more wangwang?) in the streets to weave in and out of traffic jams.

Obeying traffic rules is elementary discipline.

If a citizen obeys simple traffic rules, he will likely obey complex laws like paying the right amount of tax or duty.

Discipline is the key to a nation?s progress.

Look at rich countries like Singapore: There is order in their streets and consequently, there is order in their governments and in the lives of their citizenry.

In this country, ordinary citizens don?t follow traffic rules because they see that the people who are supposed to be models of good behavior?senators, congressmen, bureaucrats and policemen?violate the same rules.

Anarchy in the streets leads to lawlessness all over the country.

Anarchy is exemplified by policemen and militiamen shooting down unarmed and innocent civilians upon orders from their politician-bosses or a group of elite cops abducting and killing publicist Bubby Dacer and his driver several years ago upon orders from personages who answered by their codenames ?Bigote? and ?Bayot.?

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Vice President Jojo Binay reportedly wants to take exception to P-Noy?s ?no wangwang? rule because the cars of his wife, children and grandchildren use sirens in the streets of Makati and even outside.
The siren is allegedly a symbol of power and self-importance for the Binays.
The Vice President?s ego showed when he violated protocol by having President Noynoy wait for him?instead of the other way around?at their inaugurals Wednesday.
On his first day in office on Thursday, Binay allegedly complained of many things: His chair is too big; his office too small, too warm and too bare; he?s got a small budget.
Watch when he becomes The Chief.

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Retired Chief Justice Hilario Davide Sr., appointed chair of President Noy?s Truth Commission, should look into the irregularities at the Court of Appeals (CA) branch in Cebu, his own backyard.

A young lawyer in Cebu allegedly conspires with some corrupt CA justices in rigging cases; he reportedly acts as middleman between litigants and the shameless justices.

The activities of this lawyer are public knowledge in Cebu. It?s impossible that word about this didn?t reach the former Chief Justice.

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Public Works and Highways Undersecretary Romeo Momo says he will go after contractors who were in charge of substandard government-funded road projects.

Momo made the statement after P-Noy called on the
DPWH to make contractors answer for defective government roads, bridges and buildings.

Reacting to Momo?s statement, a DPWH employee said, ?Nakakasuka (Makes you retch).?