I believe that the original plan for cory is to give way to VP Doy Laurel. But she did not do it. Di kaya nasarapan din sya sa pwesto?

I can at least remember one who didn’t want to stay in power. And that was former Pres. Cory. The present Charter didn’t bar her from running again. Of course there can be a gamut of reasons why she should not consider running again but she plainly did not want to run again.

THe so called “People’s Initiative” mandated that a Con Ass was to be called for in about 2 months after ratification.

And we know what the Supreme Court called the so called “People’s Initiative”!

So to view present attempts for a Con Ass as a rush or to view it with fear shouldn’t be considered as “praningy”.

haste, haste, haste makes waste. and it’s a mountain pile of waste, especially if the proposal comes from trapos.

recall how we wasted the process of impeaching erap all because the power grab was well maneuvered by them who couldn’t wait to please their queen.

and now all these queen’s horses and all the kingkong’s men are trying to put lambino’s humpty dumpty together again, and you call that undergoing “usual process”?

hmm, can’t you smell rotten eggs here?

about the rush for the constituent assembly. anybody who wanted results, plan and strategize their action meticously and doing it with what they believe as as the proper time. There is really nothing wrong with it!. I would prefer that they present that as soon as possible so we will know what is it all about. Then people can debate over it as early as now.

I totally understand why Gloria and some congressman wanted to stay in power. ( sino ba ang ayaw?) but I still believe that it is the general public that should decide on who should stay or who should go. And Im very confident that the peopel will take that duty seriously when it called for.

Now if Gloria and his allies will twist the people’s will by scheming on the people and convert to parliamentary form government without the consent of the people. Even worst violate the existing law/s just to get the results that they wanted, Ibang usapan na yan. Now that is when it become bad and really wrong.

I find MLQ3s and other write up about “the rush” soooo
“praningy”. Parang takot na takot sila about con ass. Eh idea pa lang naman yun eh at i prepresent din naman sa publiko yun eh It will undergo the usual process namna di ba? like public debate ( and of course grandstanding by each side) challenging it in the Supreme court etc etc.

Kung ako lang, sige na “bring the cons ass on” and “now na!”so we can discuss, debate , fight over it. Basta ba we do it in a civil way. No problem for me.

Very intriguing that you have made a distinction between markets and capitalism and that the two may actually conflict with each other. Something to chew on…

For my part, having lived in the belly of a corporation all my working life, i’ve come to believe that these entities are cocoons of socialism with a capitalist skin.

Rego, you may be right, but judging from mlq3′s above account of the rush to head off the mid-term elections with a constituent assembly, apparently Gloria does not trust the ‘Great Undecided’ enough. I don’t blame her.