Category: Politics

PDP Laban TORN by Pacquiao’s Declaration of House Speaker Nominee

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 P. Farol 5 Comments

Senator Manny Pacquiao’s announcement that PDP Laban was backing Marinduque representative Lord Allan Jay Velasco as House Speaker seems to have TORN apart the single largest party in the House of Representatives. On the strength of a “manifesto” of support — perhaps similar to the manifesto of support for Senator Tito Sotto as Senate President…

Politics

Dissing Politicians Accomplishes Nothing

June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 ChinoF 2 Comments

One thing that’s obvious on social media (and the rest of the Internet) is that people love dissing each other, but most especially politicians. For example, our esteemed webmaster Benign0 posted a picture of the infantile noisemaking of Rappler writer JC Punongbayan just posting insults at Duterte, which is obviously a waste of time and…

Culture, Politics

House Speaker Race, Still A Free for All or Is It?

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 P. Farol 3 Comments

The last of June’s hot and muggy days will soon give way to July and the inaugural session of the 18th Congress, where a new House Speaker will be welcome President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been following the posturing that’s been going around the House of Representatives and talk about…

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Wattah-Wattah: An insensitive tradition

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Vincent 8 Comments

The recent water crisis in Metro Manila has got its residents and authority gaga on how to address it. News of almost day-long (week-long for some) water interruption has been a regular in daily broadcasts for more than three months already and the end of it still appears dim. Notwithstanding that, the people of San…

Culture, Government, Politics, Religion

It is the job of “activists” to react hysterically and the job of the President to stay composed

June 24, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

Opposition “thought” leaders of late have now focused on monitoring Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s public responses to various circuses stirred up by the Philippine media. Like kibitzers in a street fight, they are egging the President to issue more provocative responses. This, in essence, is the “activist” call of the Philippine Opposition brains trust: Hawakan…

Media, Politics

Party List Coalition Will Continue To be Weak With Cong. Mikee Romero

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 P. Farol 4 Comments

Honestly, I was a bit intrigued by the development that Party Lists had formed a coalition amongst themselves. But, upon seeing that billionaire Congressman Mikee Romero was its president, I had to dismiss it as another PR gimmick that merely aims to project Romero’s non-existent stature among his party list peers. It’s not an altogether…

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Cong. Mikee Romero Demands 20 percent of House Committee Chairmanships for Partylist Coalition

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 P. Farol 3 Comments

I’ve been an observer of leadership contests in the House of Representatives for a little over two decades now and I can tell you that gathering signatures of support or claims of party coalitions are pretty much exercises with psychological warfare. Infact, things only firm up during the last few days of before the opening…

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Mikee Romero’s Party List Block is Really a Selfish Bid for Majority Leader

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 P. Farol 3 Comments

A Palace insider tells me that when President Rodrigo Duterte said that the Party list system was evil, he was actually referring to Congressman Mikee Romero of 1-Pacman Party list — a party list that’s one would assume should be composed of poor and struggling athletes at the very least. “They stayed for a while…

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