ANOTHER PRETEXT?
“Ingenious but same intent: escape accountability for Senate C5 Report,” this was what Florencio “Butch” Abad, Noynoy-Mar campaign manager saw in the proposal of Villar allies to replace SP Juan Ponce Enrile in anticipation of a failure-of-elections scenario.
“Kumita na ‘yan! First, a pre-mature resolution seeking to absolve Villar. Hindi umubra! Then, a continuing effort to frustrate a quorum in the sessions by deliberately absenting themselves, a ploy denied by Villar but which even Villar ally, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, confirms. Then, a secret plot to oust Enrile, which was blunted and again denied by Villar but once again confirmed by Santiago.
Now, a failure-of-election scenario as an excuse to once again remove Enrile. What will the Villar camp think of next?
With only six session days left, Villar must cease stalling, face the Senate and once and for all address the serious findings and recommendations of the Enrile report, such as the violation of the Constitution and Senate ethic rules and the reported loss of P6.22B of public funds due to the alleged scam. Once there is closure on the C5 report, the Villar camp can then initiate discussions on the failure-of-election scenario without being suspect.
We are all getting stressed specially the 2010 election is already near and it is actually hard to decide who is the right one to vote for. To all controversies of each of the candidates, I just want to say that they were also people who were not totally perfect. There is no doubt in giving them the second chance.
We are all getting stressed specially the 2010 election already near and it is actually hard to decide who is the right one to vote for. To all controvercies of each of the candidates, I just want to say that they were also people who were not toally perfect. There is no doubt in giving them the seciond chance.
jomel bautista, wala kang pinagkaiba kay peter alan cayetano kung ipagtanggol mo si money villar! napakahaba at paikot-ikot. mabuti pa hikayatin mo mga kasamahan nyo na ipakita naman ni villar na lalaki at may balls nga sya! isa pa, ngayong kandidato pa lamang sya ay hindi nya na nirerespeto ang institution na kinabibilangan nya papaano pa kung sakaling presidente na sya? ala-gloria —- kapal muks at super manhid din?!
Mag-isip-isip tayong lahat habang maaga pa mga kababayan ko. Basta kaming mga taga-mindanao SOLID for Noynoy lalo na sa Jolo, Sulu. We want change para sa next generation. Wag ng iboto mga trapo at mga tota ng makaluma at mga corrupt na politiko.
Ang Gobyerno ay Itinatag para maglingkod sa taong bayan…Hindi upang MAGNAKAW… Ako sigurado ako kay NOYNOY AQUINO…Service in the hope of change…Walang Bahid… Kayo sigurado ba kayo sa Lider niyo?…CHECK niyo kung walang bahid yan ng panloloko, pagnanakaw at pandaraya…
andami niong spekulasyun, kwento at suspetsa. simple lang naman ang kailangan MAGPAKITA at MAGPALIWANG c VILLAR(isama nia c dolphy)
methinks, we should really ask who hit who first. if the presidential hopefuls do really have good intentions, mudslinging should not be practiced. now we ask again, who started it in the first place.
MANNY VILLAR IS GUILTY SO HE DOESN’T WANT TO FACE THE SENATE FOR FEAR OF GIVING IN…HE SHOULD GIVE UP HIS POST AND SURRENDER ALL THE MONEY…HE IS NOT WORTHY…
A decade of truth?
Nestor Mata
Malaya Business Insights
Jan.26, 2010
‘Will the next decade put an end to partisan politics that we have gone through for over ten years of the corrupt presidency of Arroyo?’
HAVE WE survived a low dishonest decade of the corrupt and faux presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo?
Can the next decade redeem our hopes for a decade of truth, of national unity and economic progress, of bipartisanship in politics? Or, are we so overly optimistic that the polls in May would finally put an end to the dirty political tactics, the mudslinging, the character assassination, the lies and half-truths which now mark the hotly-contested race to the Presidency?
The official campaign has not even started, and yet we are already seeing the political exchanges of baseless charges, insinuations, invectives, diatribes and falsehood, among the candidates for the presidency, the vice-presidency and the senate and their partisans, especially between the two leading presidential aspirants Manny Villar and Noynoy Aquino.
Manny Villar, the standard bearer of the Nacionalista Party, appears to be the main target of political detractors who are claiming that he is the “secret presidential candidate” of Gloria Arroyo.
Apparently, this is based on perceptions that he was not hitting the GMA administration at all. But a quick check of the congressional archives clearly show that when Villar was Senate President, major probes of corruption cases against Arroyo prospered. These cases included the “Hello Garci” electoral scandal and the ZTE-NBN controversy.
The truth is that Villar and his fellow Nacionalistas in the Senate were at the forefront of such moves that pinned down GMA and her cohorts. And there were other cases when Villar, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Order, led the inquiry into the jueteng payola controversy.
One of Villar’s critics from the Liberal Party tried to call on Villar to end the probe due to pressures from Malacañang. Villar still proceeded with the investigation, but it cost him the Senate Presidency.
Significantly, the politically motivated attacks against Villar came soon after his declaration of his bid to seek the presidency on September 2008. He was investigated at a time when he was leading in SWS and Pulse Asia surveys.
An ethics complaint was filed against him, and those who pushed the investigation were the very same senators, including presidential hopefuls, that conspired in forcing him to resign as Senate President.
That’s the same ethics complaint that was investigated by the Senate Committee of the Whole chaired by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.
Despite a majority of the 22-member Senate previously seeking the dismissal of the complaint, the yet-to-be approved committee report has been leaked to the media.
What’s puzzling is why Senate President Ponce Enrile, who had previously confirmed that Villar had asked him to insert the funds for the C-5 project (the basis of the ethics complaint), but he himself said there was no irregularity involved as the request was only meant to ensure the speedy completion of the road project.
Not only this, a perceptive political observer noted that Enrile is quick to defend his ally Senator Ping Lacson, who’s facing double murder charges, one of Villar’s political detractors that first initiated the case against Villar, but Enrile appears to be quick in rendering judgment on Villar in spite of what his own report says “there is no evidence that Villar had directly participated in the ‘overpricing’ of his properties.”
Well, it’s unfortunate that the pursuit of political ends has superseded the search for truth.
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A ‘Political Hit’… I just read an interesting revelation that the leaking of the Senate Committee of the Whole’s report on the ethics case against Senator Villar was allegedly “railroaded” as “a Liberal Party-ordered political hit on the Nacionalista Party’s presidential candidate.”
This was exposed in a press statement of former Congressman and Iloilo Vice-Governor Rolex T. Suplico. “It’s a purely and simply a politically-motivated hatchet job.”
Apparently, he based his revelation on Sen. Francis Pangilinan’s own admission that he signed the Senate ethics committee report upon his party’s instruction. And this was contained in his text message to reporters last Monday in which he admitted that he had somersaulted after the party (LP) “took an official stand on the issue.”
Pangilinan, who’s the campaign manager of the LP senatorial slate, did sign an earlier Senate resolution that exonerated Villar of the ethics charges filed Villar’s political detractors.
“Pangilinan is admitting that it’s a partisan act. Partisano s’ya dito. Hindi senator. Kasi siya mismo ang sumunod lang siya sa utos ng kanyang mga boss sa Liberal Party,” Suplico said. “What Pangilinan is saying is that it is an act of political salvaging, meant to take Villar out of the race after a recent survey showed he was on track to overtake Sen. Noynoy Aquino.”
And Suplico added that Pangilinan’s admission belies any pretense of impartiality and ‘removes the fig leaf of fairness in the conduct of the said investigation.”
I find quite politically interesting ex-Governor of Iloilo Suplico’s obviously tongue-in-cheek revelation that “It is a Made-in-Cubao report,” referring to the area in Quezon City, where the LP is headquartered in a building in Araneta commercial district owned by the family of Sen. Mar Roxas, vice presidential running mate of Noynoy Aquino.
Well, here we can clearly see that the propaganda mills of a certain political camp have begun to churn out all sorts of untruths even before the start of the official campaign period for the presidency in May.
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From the Hinterland
e2 po ang mga nakapost sa isang forum.. sa skyscrapercity po yan.. we are all aware of your political propaganda in this forum… don’t hide the truth..
jst wanted to react on jomel bautista’s post, sa hinaba habang post na nilagay niya ang tanung ko, are those enough to exempt Villar from explaining the C5 controversy? members of the senate are not dumb enough to decide an issue na walang basehan, kasalanan ba nila kung may nakitang kalokohan c Villar, Dapat kau ang tumigil in defending Villar, nakakaawa kau dahil cia mismu ayaw niang magsalita at bakit? DAHIL PAG BAD KA, LAGOT KA!
Leak or no leak, the point is the details of the senate report has surfaced and the public deserves the truth. People don’t care what went down behind the senate’s closed doors. How cocky for anyone to think that by declaring this as propaganda, a political hit, or even partisan politics will appall people and make them look the other way.