Name Gloria’s bastards

EDITORIAL

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10/14/2007

I received 200, Cebu City Rep. Antonio Cuenco admitted when asked about what he got from Gloria’s Christmas breakfast in October. Others, led by Malacañang, denied that money was handed out by Gloria during an emergency breakfast meeting to discuss the immediate transmittal of Gloria’s “impeach me” complaint and be assured of her inoculation for the year, against impeachments.

But “200” has become a byword among Gloria allies.

One got P200,000; another was offered P200 million.

Gloria Arroyo also says investing in people will pave the way for peace, progress.

This was among the news stories that the Malacañang publicity mill cranked out the other day.

The news story was all about the inauguration of the P3.6-billion Bayongan Dam in Bohol, which the National Economic Development Authority then headed by Romulo Neri objected to, also, but the headline assumes a different meaning after that sumptuous breakfast for about 190 congressmen where the main course was the bribes to assure the impeach me racket pulls through at the House of Representatives.

Investing heavily was what Gloria exactly did the other day to persuade legislators to go along the impeach me charade. And all of 190 congressmen gladly partook of the detestable feast the other day, even as many continue to deny it, which is truly useless, as no one believes their denials — especially so when it comes from Gloria and her Malacañang.

Peace and progress for Gloria and her cohorts certainly come at a progressively high price ever since the mother of all scams that was Edsa II occurred.

Current efforts to liberate Gloria from a round of another humiliating impeachment exercise is finding fruition from the expensive yet clearly effective impeach me maneuver.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita may have inadvertently admitted that the Ruel Pulido impeachment case was part of a Malacañang ploy when he said in one of his recent interviews that the Palace already has a game plan to thwart any serious attempts to impeach Mrs. Arroyo until the end of her term in 2010.

Clearly, Gloria’s aim was not even to challenge complaints filed against her but to frustrate altogether even the filing of a genuine case against her.

It was an understatement to describe as dismaying the public sentiment on their elected representatives knowing that they allowed themselves to be prostituted by Gloria.

The names of those present during Gloria’s breakfast payola should be made public not for anything else but for the fact that they are answerable to the people who voted them into office.

Cuenco, for one, admitted having received the payola but insisted it was the usual Christmas gift handed out by Malacañang to its allies in Congress.

Aside from the fact that it is clearly too revolting to realize that Gloria is playing Santa Claus to her tentacles in Congress three months early, and with Cuenco saying there was nothing wrong about envelopes containing cash that were passed around during the Malacañang affair, what this means is that those present at the breakfast meeting with Gloria should be named as this would not, by any chance, harm their well-kept reputations.

Together with their names, these disgraceful members of the House of Representatives should reveal how much they each received from Gloria, since this is “normal” and “acceptable” to them.

Cuenco said he received P200,000 while others reportedly got upwards to P500,000 each. The difference is still unknown as nobody knows whether such has resulted from necessity, association with Gloria or sheer blind luck.

A sum of P200,000 or P500,000 is hardly the issue, since that money is not Gloria’s but most probably came from the Treasury, which are funds that come from taxes, which, in turn, were paid for through blood and tears by Filipinos.

Name Gloria’s bastards. Taxpayers and voters are entitled to know.

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