The impeachment votes

The numbers clearly show how we continuously fail to elect people who will put God, Country and People over their own interests. Time and time again we elect officials based on personalities, not issues; based on promises, not performance; based on popularity not principles.

And even if you do vote wisely, we come across the likes of Gloria who will twist election results to their own satisfaction and lamely say “Sorry” when found out.

Then what do we do? We sigh and look up to the heavens and say “we expected this much” and go on with our pathetic lives.

Bayan ko! Gumising ka! Di ka ba naaawa sa kinalulugmukan mo?

Thew reluctance of the middle forces to actively aprticipate in the present cry for impeachment is a clear indication of their acceptance thay they made a mistake in ousting what they believed to be an evil president and replacing him with an equally if not more evil leader.

Th absencew of an Imee Marcos during the voting is likewise a very clear sign of the kind of negotiations it takes for the adminsitration to win allies to its side. Vow!

Pangasinan express picked up the 185 and not the 189 promised will not go for the impeachmen at the start of the Moro-Moro game ka na ba. Tama naman sana si JDV ah… 158+21(di bumoto)+6(abstain kuno)+ 4(young majority reps-Reyes, Jaworski, Remulla at Barbers)=189 sana! Salamat na lang nilaglag si JDV ng apat na kabataang me sariling prinsipyo at gusto ng katotohanan!

Cong. Imee where are you? Ang buong angkan namin aty minahal ang tatay mo, at hanggang ngayon mahal pa rin namin si Apo, pero bakit bigla kang nawala! Kahit na me galit kami nuon kay COry, dahil di rin kami naniniwala sa pang-aagaw niya ng poder ke Apo, isinaisantabi namin iyon, alang alang sa katotohanang hinahanap natin ngayon! Sana maging maganda ang paliwanag mo upang mawala ang sama ng loob namin sa iyo!

Cong Asistio, tutoo ba na nililigawan ka ng Malacanang dahil susuportahan ka sa election sa 2007 bilang pagka Mayor under LAKAS? Kaya ba di ka sumuporta sa mga kasamahan mo sa opposition. Alam nyo raw na matatalo kasi di ninyo kinikilala si Gloria.
bilang Presidente.

Kami man di kinikilala si Gloria bilang presidente , pero ang impeachment game ang laro sa pagkakataong iyon. Ayaw man ng minority group pumasosk sa labang iyon, na unang binitiwang salita ni Cong. Escudero, kahit nga alam nilang me tulog sila diyan sa dami ng tropa ni GMA sa bahay ni Dagul este ni Marcoleta, PINATULAN NILA! Dahil pag hindi rin sila kumilos o kumagat sa larong iyon, lalong magngangalit ang taumbayan kung bakit walang kumikilos sa mga representanteng binoto nila upang malaman ang katotohanan higit lalo sa opposition na inaasahan namin. Sa simpleng mamamayan, na walang kaalaman sa batas, at kumikilala sa kaunting kapayapaan at mga paliwanagan, kumakagat din kami sa mga laro na alam namin baka matalo,pero lalaro kami, kasi MALAY MO BAKA MANALO RIN ang bayan! Mas nagagalit kami sa hindi sumubok o sumugal sa laro! Me nahihita rin naman tayo ah!. Sa huling laro ng malacanang,eto ang achievements ni Gloria!Nadagdagan pa kamo ang kaso!

A) Hawak niya ang HOUSE OF OLD REPRESENTATHIEVES . Me silbi sila ke Gloria pero di sa mamamayan. The voice of the lolo-tenga is the voice of Gloria. Ay mali ka na naman Toting Bawi ha-The voice of the people is the voice of God daw! Sinali mo pa si God sa kabaliwan niyo, namumuro ka na sa mental!Baka tamaan ka ng kidlat, mahiya ka nga sa mga binibitiwang mong salita magmula ngayon ha!

B) Another STEALING? Paggamit sa pera ng bayan para panunuhol sa mga tuta niya sa Kongreso, SARO, pork barrel, road users tax, package tour, etc.

C) Paglitaw ng mga pekeng henyo sa batas na ang tanging itinuro sa atin ay ang baluktot na pang unawa sa mga batas, prejudiacial questions, Fr. Bernas, Francisco ruling, lahat yan binaluktot

D) Paglitaw ng mga bobo sa ingles; ang definition pala ng Complaints Vs. Proceedings ay pareho pala. Another CHEATING!

D) Bagong sugal, karera ng kabayo na isa lang ang tumatakbo, karera ng daga sa year 2006, sabong ng itik at pato. GAMBLING!

E) Another LYING by lolo Datung-manong. Yung committee report natapos daw ng 9:00am , malas nila nakapila na pala si Chiz sa linya na humihingi ng kopya sa ganap na 9:30 am pero sabi ng staff after lunch pa raw matatapos. Sorry Chiz said the old Datong-manong, pag eexplain na lang daw yung staff anong nangyari. Ganon na lang ba uli iyon? Explain lang. Parang si Gloria ” I’m Sorry” bati na tayo!

F) Verdict ng report na opinion lang pala ng dalawang lolo (Edcel -hu luk lyk Gardield at Villafuerte-hu luk lyk a dimon-lisik mata kasi eh) pero me citations ng batas na hindi mahanap hanap ng 3 olds. Talaga naman parang tandang ung 3 sa kakakahig sa mga notes nila na makakapal at kung saan batas o ano basehan nila pinulot yung 2 paragraph conclusions nila sa justiis komite report nila. Siguro nakahalata yung 3 na mukha na silang tanga, at walang maipresenta sa batang si Chiz, dinaan na lang sa pamimilosopo ” eh kung wala, eh di wala!” sabi ni villafuerte!Natawa kami kasi nagmukhang tanga talaga yung 3 lolo! – I remember tuloy yung si tatang Nachura at Raul when he was interpellated by the the same brilliant guy, Chiz, during the last canvassing in the last election. Si Nachura dapat yung sasagot, sa unang saltada ni Chiz ipinasa ke Raul ang mikropono, mas kaya daw ni Raul sagutin si Chiz. Halos maihi si Raul sa mga tanong ng batang congresman eh! matapos umamin si Raul na pwedeng buksan ang ER nuong canavassing sa election, di lang daw sila pumayag maski isang election return buksan kasi baka pag pumayag sila sa isa, magpabukas ng marami sila CHIZ-tsk tsk tsk… may limit pala ang katotohanan ano!

O di ba ang saya saya. Kaya Gloria give us your most beautiful “NGISING ASO” starting today , kasi naiinspired kaming rumampa sa kalye, pag nasisilayan namin ang ngisi mong yan!

To the Pro-Impeachment Group, MARAMING SALAMAT sa sipag, tiyaga, talino at katapatang ipinakita ninyo sa labang ito, walang nasayang, bagkus pagahanga at respeto ang inani ninyo mula sa mga mamamayang gutom sa katotohanan!Sa mga kabataang leaders na lumabas at lumaban for the TRUTH, magpatuloy kayo, kayo ang hinahanap ng taumbayan mag lead sa hinaharap!Although, you did not have the numbers , You did a good fight in a meaningful battle! TRuth lies not in the numbers, but it lives in the heart and mind of the leader who could face her people withour fear and can answer honestly, that I DID NOT CHEAT, STEAL and LIE!

Lets forget the old men without integrity, because their time maybe near, death will pick them at the exact time that they will again do harm to the people!

Yung huling show ang sample what kind of a Parliamentary we will have soon , tiyak yan pipila ang lahat ng matatanda na maging Prime Minsiters natin, kawawa naman tayo sa kuko ng dilim! Wag nating payagan ang 3 manggogoyo sa Chacha nila, hanggang nandiyan sila FVR, JDV at GMA di tayo ligtas sa kapahamakan Kawawa talaga tayo, pati ang mga kabataang matatalino at pwedeng maging pag-asa natin sa hinaharap, itong 3 ang magiging hadlang sa mga bagong pag-asa ng bayan: the young brilliant leaders.

GMA,JDV at GMA, para kayong sumpa sa bayan, ipanalangin ninyong 3 na kuko lang ninyo ang mamatay sa inyo! GMA, 2 biyuda na ang imiingos sa iyo, para patas ang laban, baka gusto mo ring maging biyuda!

“Di kailangang maging biyuda ang walang asawa naman talaga.

Tama, ibinasura man ang impeachment complaint wagi parin ang mga kabataang reps dahil the future belongs to them. Sa mga matatanda sa kongreso, alam naman ninyong bilang na ang araw ninyo at sana makatulog kayo ng mahimbing kahit minumulto kayo ng katotothanang maaaring nasa hukay na ay minumura pa kayo ng marami at nawa’y di kayo ang maging huwaran ng bayan ni Juan Tanga.

incredible math

51 — those who voted NO
6 — abstained
+ 21 — did not vote
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78

PDI reported those who voted no was 52. tsk, tsk, tsk. Galeng talaga. Parang scripted.

Jonathan,

Well said, but it doesn’t mean we tolerated her bad doings. We’re just accepting the fact that she is really a formidable foe. We should not underestimate that so called pandak. Everything was thrown at her but she still standing and as you’ve said as if she became more stronger as the situation gets going. But we are not surrendering that cause here. Maybe today she have won, but tomorrow or next day it’s ours. Bilog ang mundo…Lintek lang ang walang ganti….

Noelet,
You are really a die-hard anti-GMA. Lahat ng nagsasabi lamang ng reality, binabangga mo. I love your stand. Very Firm… Those person who just accepting reality is not Glorifying PGMA. They just accepting the fact and reality. Just keep your cool man. We all believe she cheated ok.

Jonathan,

One thing i cannot understand is that why God would place a liar and a cheat to lead us. And who must step aside when she pass? the people which she must serve if indeed she is the legit servant?

My dear benign0,

you said:

“Those people on the streets who you claim are the “majority” are actually the same people who voted those congressmen into office as their “representatives”. And we, being subject to the State, have signed off on the premise that congress — by virtue of its officials being appointed by popular vote — are DE FACTO representative of the majority.”

My opinion:

Of course your statement does not include the concept of cheating during the elections…It is a very big possibility, especially in this country, that these congressmen were not REALLY elected by the people of their respective districts but they still won in the elections.
These congressmen should represent the sentiments of their constituents and not the other way around. Even though they were elected as DE FACTO representative of the people, then it is their responsibility and obligation as agents of the people to prioritize the sentiments of their people and not their own. Agents are supposed to sacrifice their own intentions and feelings for that of their principal. Otherwise, they cease to become agents and therefore the principal can then revoke the agency.
What happened in the Congress is the system failing its people. The DE FACTO representatives representing only themselves and not the people.

You’re right, however, that all of the past revolutions were FIESTA REVOLUTIONS. What we really need is a true revolution to shake up the whole socio-economic-political structure that have been installed here since the time of the Spaniards. What have we got to lose there? Only those rich people, that have been sucking the blood of the poor for hundreds of years will feel the effect of this revolution.
Another thing: Communists never wanted ANARCHY. In fact communism is an order and a way of life. Anarchy is the opposite.

Dimasalang,

Couldn’t have said better:

“What happened in the Congress is the system failing its people. The DE FACTO representatives representing only themselves and not the people.’

Kudos.

To our host kavenishi,

“You are really a die-hard anti-GMA.”

What?

“Lahat ng nagsasabi lamang ng reality, binabangga mo.”

Tell me what reality…

“I love your stand. Very Firm… ”

Do NOT be sarcastic.

“Those person who just accepting reality is not Glorifying PGMA.”

Are you somebody else’s spokeperson? ala-Bunye?

“They just accepting the fact and reality.”

See my stance? Point-by-point… see that? Again, maybe you still can’t comprehend, see that? Point-by-point?

So what is fact and reality?

“Just keep your cool man.”

What’s your point? And stop being a Bunye.

“We all believe she cheated ok.”

ALL? Read! Ok read again… oh maybe you still miss something… read.

Still doesn’t get it? Ok I will read it to you – NOT ALL.

Again stop being a Bunye for somebody else. If you have something to say, then say it. Get that? Ok get that?

Again, get that?

Nakakatawa naman si Gloria- MORATORIUM on RALLIES!!! Hwahwahwa!!!

Pero sa totoo lang, parang apathetic na ako sa mga rallies. Wala ng urge na sumali pa. Even though I know she’s the worst president we’ve ever had!! Walang puso!! At least si Erap may puso.

Kita mo naman kasi sa rallies, puro militant groups lang andun.

Wag nilang araw arawin ang mga raliies, baka magsawa ang tao.

Just some food for thought about democracy:
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In 1787, a Scottish history professor by the name of Professor Alexander Tyler had this to say about “The Fall of the Athenian Republic” over 2,000 years previous to that date:

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance,
from abundance to complacency;
from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependence,
from dependence back into bondage.”
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Another quote:
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So, what’s wrong with democracy? Majority rule; and, the will of the majority would seem to be a most desirable state. The will of the majority invariably becomes very destructive when that majority uses its power to plunder the minority. When the majority [or influential power block] is feeding at the public hog trough and the minority [or silent majority] are the wealth producers, such a democracy rapidly destructs. The wealth producers eventually refuse to produce, or, are hamstrung by increased taxation.

The medium of exchange of property [money] inflates [or, more appropriately, devalues] and property and wealth gravitates to a few, causing a cycle back to tyranny.
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That’s why the founding father’s of the US never wanted a democracy.

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James Madison in the Federalist Papers No. 10 (1787):

“… there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

John Adams – Second President of the US
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable [abominable] cruelty of one or a very few.”

John Quincy Adams –
“[T]he experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.”

Gary Macleod-
“Democracies always self-destruct when the non-productive majority realizes that it can vote itself handouts from the productive minority by electing the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury. To maintain their power, these candidates must adopt an ever-increasing tax and spend policy to satisfy the ever-increasing desires of the majority. As taxes increase, incentive to produce decreases, causing many of the once productive to drop out and join the non-productive. When there are no longer enough producers to fund the legitimate functions of government and the socialist programs, the democracy will collapse, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.”
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Sounds pretty familiar to what we are experiencing right now.

Actually, the Pro impeachment group should appreciate what Imee and the Erap people did. Their voting/not voting for the impeachment of PGMA will remove their participation from the exercise. So, the Pro impeach group cannot be accused of just being too eager to grab power. Who among Escudero, Cayetano, Remulla, etc. has the right to replace the president? O baka sabihin ninyo they are being used by Pimentel, Drillon, etc. I have the feeling that what is going on is Divine intervention. I shall call it processing to separate the grains from the chaff. And then, something unbelievable shall take place.

concerned citizen,
i have a theory kung bakit ang marcos at erap blocs at absent o silent sa botohan. ito ay hindi verificado ngunit malakas ang huntahan: dahil kay Tita Cory. Totoo man o hindi, we all know how far apart the politics are between these two groups. Right now, with Cory and her minions plus the Reds at the helm of the rallies, its the Edsa I & II show again. This time against each other!

Now it can be told. Right after the Congress brouhaha Atty. Lozano was reported to have been at the DOJ regarding the requests of the Marcoses for the former president to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Payback time daw sabi ng Media. It really smells fishy. We can now tie the loose ends. Maliwanag pa sa sikat ng araw araw unless sabihin na naman na ito ay fallacy of non sequitur.

Leo, lahat ng empleyadong hindi pumasok sa trabaho ng 7 araw ay tanggal sa trabaho 20 milyon yon Leo, 20 milyon na mawawalan ng trabaho, magkakagulo sa bansa, magkakaroon ng civil war, Tembong paano pa mangyayari yon, kung napalitan na si GMA, o mga kumpanya at sangay ng gobyerno ibalik nyo sa trabaho yang mga tinanggal nyong yan, ibalik nyo yan, utos ng bagong presidente, kita mo Tembong…Ang importante sa atin ngayon ay mapaalis siya,,,,, pagkatapos nito ay masaya na tayo,, e di para lang yang christmas vacation,,, sus paanong parehas e hindi ka makakalabas ng bahay mo dahil walang taxi na papasada, at kung kakain ka sa restoran ay wala kang makakain dahil sarado, at wala ka ring mabibilhan ng gas dahil sarado ang petron, e di kukuha sila ng kapalit,,,, sus ginoo 20 milyon makakakuha ka agad ng kapalit, yung lang strike nung jeepney, kita natin ang resulta samahan mo pa ng lahat ng empleyado pribado at publiko sus… para mo ng nakita na dumating na ang araw ng paghuhukom sa mga tao…. e di tuwang tuwa yung negosyante ng bigas, sila ang kikita biro mo 20 milyong mamamayan bibigyan mo ng isang sako para lamang tumigil ng 7 araw sa loob ng kanilang barung barong…. Tembong hindi naman lahat sa kanila ay pulubi, tanga, kung ikaw ba ay matinong tao na may roon ka namang sapat na ikinabubuhay, tatanggap ka rin ng isang sakong bigas, ganid ka pala e, kaya hindi tayo magtagumpay sa ating mga adhikain, meron ka na gusto mo pa ring kumuha, yung mga namamasada ng jeep, mga tindero ng gulay at mga pangkaraniwang kawani, natural talagang gutom yan pag nawalan ng pagkain sa loob ng isang linggo. E ikaw naman na buwanan ang suweldo, bakit naman kukuha ka pa rin ng bigas, suwapang ka e, ipaubaya mo sa iba…. At ikaw, na ISANG BIG TIME SA LUGAR MO , IKA NGA E 4 ANG KOTSE, 20 HEKTARYA ANG TANIMAN NG PALAY, AT GUSTO MO RING UMALIS SI GMA ABA E di bumili ka rin mga kapitbahay mo na naniniwala sa ating ipinaglalaban,,, o may pagkain sa bodega, 7 araw walang papasok sa trabaho.. sus.. digmaan na…. Mahirap bang gawin… Tarantado ka Leo , pag nagka civil war sa pinas, kasalanan mo lahat… Tembong matagal ng may civil war sa pinas….. hindi mo lang pinapansin dahil nakokontrol mo pa ang kalam ng sikmura mo tanga…..

Yun namang mga nagpo-post dito na ginagandahan pa ang argumento para sagutin si benigno at iba pa, puwede ba tumigil na kayo, nag-aaksaya lang kayo ng oras at panahon diyan, kaya ba ng katalinuhan ni benigno na lunasan ang kalam ng sikmura ng mga mamamayan, di ba hindi, iba yung pagkalam ng sikmura kaysa pagkalam ng utak….. Sa halip na sagutin nyo yan ng sagutin, nauubos ang panahon natin sa kasasagot dyan sa mga kagaya ni benigno.. Yang talino ni benigno hindi natin makakain yan, lalo lamang tayong gugutumin dyan, pinagpapraktisan lang nyan ang mga utak natin, sa akin wala kang makukuha benigno, maglaway ka,,,,,,,,,, Isipin natin kung paano mapapaalils si gma hindi yung sagutin ng sagutin si benigno,,, sus payo lang kabayan, gaya ngayon, may mga mungkahi ako, sana ito ang sagutin nyo,, sabihin nyo gago ka Leo, hindi uubra yang iniisip mo, talo tayo dyan, buti pa gawin na lang nating biyuda si gma, yan… yang mga suhestiyong ganire,,,, magpa raffle na lang tayo, para makabili tayo ng kanyon , kanyunin natin ang palasyo… sus , tama na yang mga argumentong kagaya ng kay benigno, wala tayong mahihita dyan, Tembong esep tayo esep- Hindi namin kailangan ang talino mo benigno, magtinda ka na lang ng taho, mabuti pa… kikita ka pa.. ako hindi ako magkakainteres na bashin yang mga argumento mo… punta ka na lang sa buwan, doon lecturan mo yung mga martians doon.. hehehehehe

Yan ang sinasabi ko kay Primo, aksiyon agad….. Sulong mga kapatid…. lusubin ang greenhills…..

leo,

hahahaha…

outrageous talaga ang nangyayari sa atin.. pinaglalaruan lang ni gloria arroyo ang batas… noong kainitan ng issue hiniling nila na daanin sa impeachment upang malaman ang katotohanan, noong pinagbigyan ayon, ni hindi napagusapan ang kasalanan, ibinasura na ang impeachment…

well… political proceeding… kahit kagigising lang ng isang kongresman… hindi mahalaga ang katotohanan, buboto yan pabor sa kakampi…

ang pagkakabasura sa impeachment ay hindi daan upang sabihin na si gloria ay di nagkasala…

at si kabayan… walang backbones… parang driftwood… sumikat s’ya sa magandang gabi bayan… binasa lang n’ya yon, ang naghirap dun mga magagaling na researcher katulad ng mga writer natin sa pcij…

my condolences to the Filipino people for having lost such a well-principled civil servant

baguio folks out there (and still at our no-longer-so-fair city),

fyi: congressman domogan voted YES against the impeachment.

draw your own conclusions, decide what to do in the next elections.

personally, i had hoped that the man would show some spine, instead of the graft we were used to under vergara.

tsk tsk.

now we have the impeachment folks penalized by GMA through the administration majority.

power corrupts, and absolute power is actually pretty neat, eh, GMA?