“For Inday Sara, never is forever.”
Vladimir Lenin once said: “It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward”.
Now, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is not a disciple of Lenin. Neither is the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Both are undeniably capitalists.
The yellows and/or pinks are not Marxist-Leninists. Akbayan claims to be a party of social democrats, and some of their old progenitors (apologies to Ronald Llamas, who is not that old) disengaged from Joma Sison and styled themselves as “rejectionists” even as die-hard leftists call themselves “re-affirmists”. And among the group that filed impeachment complaints against the vice-president are those who call themselves “reformists”, including Roman Catholic priests who just very recently formed the “Clergy for Good Governance.
But did not the President say that he does not favor moves to impeach his divorced Uniteam partner?
Aren’t the angry and noisy re-affirmists in the HoR just as raring to impeach the vice-president? Why were they beaten to the draw by Leila de Lima, Ging Deles, Fathers Flavie and Robert, even PNoy nephew Francis Dee?
The DDS will go to town and say “bakakon gyud si Bongbong.” Bakakon is Bisaya for liar.
Did not the president heed the wise counsel of the black pope, who prevailed over the hotheads and the palace Rasputin?
Then again, the resident leftists in the House march to the drums of the yet silent Speaker. The plot thickens, or better yet, the plot gets clearer.
Erap’s former PMP recruit, later one of Ronny Zamora’s deputies in Mabini Hall, now NUP leader and HoR secretary-general Reggie Velasco explained very clearly the procedures of the House insofar as impeachment complaints are concerned.
His to accept; his to forward to the Speaker who then asks the Committee on Rules headed by Zamboanga’s Mannix Dalipe to refer same to the Justice Committee which then rules on form and substance and if warranted, sends it to the plenary where a third of its 316 members can forthwith send the impeachment articles to the Senate of 23 republics for trial.
Yet Congress is to go on recess in a couple of weeks, so is there material time? Even if they do a Villar fastbreak as in Erap, time is not a friend. Sobrang halata!
And when Congress resumes in January, it will have to adjourn by February 8, as the campaign period starts. How sure is the HoR that they have the numbers in the upper House? Even graduating Senadora Nancy dislikes the purple robe.
So likely the Akbayan ploy is dead in the water, likewise that of the certified leftists, but 2025 is another year, and by then the mid-term elections will be done.
Likely, the super-majority will still be under the thumb of present leadership. Many in fact are running unopposed. What fool would fight a preponderance of ayuda from the fount of plenty? Only in Manila, where an Isko Moreno has vowed to defeat its biggest purveyors.
“From the people, to the people, through the people’s representatives,” that after all is the “bible” of the Ayuda Republic.
So the deciding factor will be the 24 republics of the 20th Congress, half of which will be new or recycled. Unto their hands the “new” HoR will commend the fate of Inday Sara.
But as the tale of the latest surveys (pre-Sara rant) indicate, there likely will be only two survivors of the Alyansa juggernaut, unless Davao can manage to increase its numbers to three, at most four.
In the Alyansa slate, Lacson is independent-minded, and Imee will stick it out for Sara.
Who will waver? The answer will be blowing in the political winds by then.
Make no mistake, though. The palace Rasputin has already laid out the continuing demolition of the Duterte brand, and they have so many weapons in the arsenal.
Inday Sara can do tit for tat, for her accusers are blacker than black, but she has no competent staff to do research, communicate and destroy.
If survey findings cannot be reversed in the coming campaign, Davao loses the battle of numbers in the upper House. FPRRD should have formed a senatorial slate as early as late last year, when many re-electionists and balik-senadores could have been locked-in by his magic endorsement, but Bagong Pilipinas has beaten him to the draw.
One step backward (kuno) and two steps forward seems to be the palace playbook. What does “never say never” really mean?
For the ruling administration, it’s not now, not yet. For Inday Sara, never is forever.
