GMA clips congressional powers

Isang EO mula sa pekeng pangulo.

Bakit natatakot ang mga militar sa kanya? bakit natin bigyan ng respeto ang EO na yan. Pekeng pangulo walang mandato.

HIndi totoo. Walang karapatang mag EO. bakit? bobo ba talaga tayo?

PGMA has a point in her EO, congress should really be able to respect the separation between the Executive and the legislature and understand that heads of executive departments, secretaries, are accountable to the president only.

My beef with the EO is that it is inconsistent with PGMA’s call for a constitutional redesign (in her words, to correct systemic defects in our political system). For a president who has espoused her advocacy for parliamentary government and who urged everyone to start the “great” constitutional debate, her true colors have just surfaced with this EO as it clearly indicates as least two things–her predilection to issue policy statements out of convenience without really understanding the repercussions of such statements and the maximal extent of operations of her cabal of legal consultants, public image experts, dirty and rough tricks experts, and control freaks as this group seems to be churning out everything in a huff—from propaganda materials (expensive tarpauline hallelujahs to the chief around the metropolis, countless praise releases), legal cases filed against opponents, walking papers given to obstructionist bureaucrats, and now, Executive Orders design to make executive appointive officials solely accountable to the Chief whose ass they have licked and whose egos have been constantly massaged by an increasingly captured President.

pano lagi kasi syang binubuko ng mga tuta nya (Bunye, Defensor, Gonzales). ganyan talaga pang puro kasinungalingan at guilty, kahit anong klaseng pagtatakip sa baho, sisingaw at sisingaw din yan. ngayon patatahimikin nya mga gabinete nya, mas malaking gulo ang nagagawa ng nakakabinging katahimikan. look at pandak herself, remember ang tagal nyang nanahimik sa hello garci controversy, tingnan mo, biglang napa amin si loka.

habang tumatagal, binabaon lang ni gloria ang sarili nya sa kumunoy ng kontrobersya. is this what we have to bear until 2010???!

pandak is a it again. Matapos busalan ang mga ebidensya sa kongreso, pinakialamanan naman ngayon pati ang senado.

Wala bang magagawa ang ating senado na protektahan ang 2 officers na nagtestify sa senado today?

hmmn. i didn’t know the army was an independent and equal branch of the government. what is the logic of preventing army from reporting to senate, the elected representatives of us?

Eo?! Hindi naman siya Presidente e.

Naku, BenignO, may pa-irony-irony ka pa.

Simple lang yan. At the end of the day, Doña Gloria is the most reviled amongst the current crop of politicians in the country today. Kung baga e, buwaya man ang tingin sa mga congressmen, Satanas na ang imahe ni Gloria sa sambayanan.

Bengino,hindi naman lahat ng senador at congressmen hawak ni gloria. tuloy pa naman ang mga imbestigasyon ng mga diffrent committees sa mga anomalya ng gobyerno kaya dapat lang na kondenahin etong bagong EO ni gloria.

pansin ko dumadami na talaga ang problema ni gloria. nagsusulputan na. dami na siyang tauhan na di sumusunod sa kanya. wrong move after wrong moves pa ginagawa niya. pag komontra, tanggal. etong tinanggal aangal dahil illegal and politically motivated ang dahilan. lalabas sa media at magkakaroon ng symphaty sa tao. mas madami tuloy naglalabasan na baho ni gloria. kaya di niya na talaga nagagampanan ang trabaho niya bilang presidente at para mapalakad ng maayos ang gobyerno. nauubos na oras niya at ng mga bataan niya sa pagtatanggol ng sarili para di matanggal sa puwesto. wala pa akong nakitang presidenteng nagkaroon ng ganito kadaming problema. kahit sa time ata ni marcos hindi siya namroblema ng ganito. malamang di man siya mapatalsik ng tao, masiraan naman ng ulo dahil di na makatulog at makakain. so ang labas natanggal dahil mentaly incapacitated na si gloria. tingin ko lang ganon mangyayari. just a matter of time. :).
abangan…

What’s next, immunity from charges in court of gov’t officials owing to the separation of powers clause? Whatever happened to the principle of checks and balance?

Tomorrow, after the UP Law Center members are done with their testimony in the Senate, they will join the other honorable public servants who are newly-unemployed, and for sure, they will be replaced by nominees of the Firm.

I would like to suggest that any journalist keeping tab of the recent pronouncements, orders, and policies of the present overstaying visitor in Malacañang to provide us a list of the same so that the moment this Cheat ExecuThief is removed, she will have to answer to the people for all her sins, venial and mortal. I don’t care if it happens tomorrow, next week, next year, or in 2010.

She won’t escape the inevitable.

kahit ano pa ang ibigay na EO ng “questionable president” eh wala naman pupuntahan. she can’t control everyone. sa mga pag-issue ng mga ganyang EO, i think yun din sisira sa kanya(mas lalo pa, kasi sira na sya).

TO GENERAL GUDANI…………….
He is at least one general who refuses to obey an illegal order and was more than willing to show by example, what a good officer and gentleman should be. Now that takes courage.

assumptionista said,
September 29, 2005 @ 9:07 am
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And to Benigno, how much are you getting paid? Just asking…. he…he…. I share mo naman sa amin…..mukha kasi malaki eh….. biro mo kahit anong gawin ni GMA ok lang sa iyo……
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What if I tell you I’m paid a sh1tload of money and jet-setting around the world using YOUR tax money. Maiinggit ka ba? 😉

Sarap nang naka-Mercedes lalo na pag naka-todo ang erkon.

ha ha! 😀

SI BENIGN0 kulang sa pansin, guguluhin nya lang ang blog na ito pag magcommwnt ka sa kanya. american idol yan sa phycologist na sira ulo

Which makes the timing of the release of our brilliant SLIDE SHOW on Why Filipinos Should Get Real. Check it out here:

http://www.getrealphilippines.com/tour/slide01.html

Happy viewing!

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Brilliant? Don’t oversell yourself, kid. At best, they’re groups of obvious observations; at worst, they’re flawed generalizations. Either way, they offer no real insight into what the real problems are and what need to be done. You give no reasons as to why those traits that you criticize so roundly came to be (assuming that your criticisms are correct). My guess is that you’ll say “culture.” So the question is, what creates or sustains this “culture”? You haven’t answered that question.

You speak in generalizations. But it’s easy to mouth motherhood statements. Formulating the proper policy interventions is much more difficult — and in that your brilliant slides are obviously lacking.

For instance, you say that we Filipinos are not as entrepreneurial as the Chinese. The question is why? Was there a genetic lottery that gave the Chinese entrepreneurial genes but not the Filipinos? Or was it some other factor, and what aspects of it created an entrepreneurial culture? Can we replicate the conditions? What are those conditions?

Pag nasagot mo yan di may naitulong ka sa debate, imbis na tawagin mo simply na culturally deficient ang Pinoy at superior ang Chinese di ba?

This comment on Chinese being enterprenurial lot than any other race is lots of bull. How could they be when all businesses in China is owned and contolled by their government. The commercial accomplishment of Chinese in the philippines happened because they are already Filipinos not anymore Chinese.

Duck Vader said,
September 29, 2005 @ 12:10 pm
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Brilliant? Don’t oversell yourself, kid. At best, they’re groups of obvious observations; at worst, they’re flawed generalizations. Either way, they offer no real insight into what the real problems are and what need to be done. You give no reasons as to why those traits that you criticize so roundly came to be (assuming that your criticisms are correct). My guess is that you’ll say “culture.” So the question is, what creates or sustains this “culture”? You haven’t answered that question.

You speak in generalizations. But it’s easy to mouth motherhood statements. Formulating the proper policy interventions is much more difficult — and in that your brilliant slides are obviously lacking.

For instance, you say that we Filipinos are not as entrepreneurial as the Chinese. The question is why? Was there a genetic lottery that gave the Chinese entrepreneurial genes but not the Filipinos? Or was it some other factor, and what aspects of it created an entrepreneurial culture? Can we replicate the conditions? What are those conditions?

Pag nasagot mo yan di may naitulong ka sa debate, imbis na tawagin mo simply na culturally deficient ang Pinoy at superior ang Chinese di ba?
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Great questions tatang! 😀

As to the why part, I propose a theory of how this disparity in success and failure in this little parable here (that is of course if you have the time to read it):

http://www.getrealphilippines.com/solution/

Other authors such as Samuel Huntington and Jared Diamond also propose more comrehensive and more scholarly theories about how the disparity in commercial success between cultures came about.

On the other hand, one simple fact remains regardless of the WHY part — that we are what we are today — a society on the brink of failure, a chonic laggard, and subservient to commercially successful subcultures within our society. A situation shared by a country like Malaysia. The only difference is that they have the degree of introspection to recognise this situation in an official capacity as Mahathir himself articulates in his “Malay Dilemma” rantings here:

http://www.geocities.com/benign0/agr-disagr/17-1-newmalay.html

Kung baga, we can rack our brains and point fingers at every doodad to explain why we are what we are today, but it won’t change the fact that we are what we are, that we need to RECOGNISE this, and to build solutions based on what we have come to terms with as our national character.

Here’s an excerpt from some of Mahathir’s writings on this issue (from the article pointed to by the abvoe link):

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“When I wrote The Malay Dilemma in the late 60s, I had assumed that all the Malays lacked the opportunities to develop and become successful. They lacked opportunities for educating themselves, opportunities to earn enough to go into business, opportunities to train in the required vocation, opportunities to obtain the necessary funding, licences and premises. If these opportunities could be made available to them, then they would succeed. ……

…. But today, the attitude has changed. Getting scholarships and places in the universities at home and abroad is considered a matter of right and is not valued any more. Indeed, those who get these educational opportunities for some unknown reason seem to dislike the very people who created these opportunities. Worse still, they don’t seem to appreciate the opportunities that they get. They become more interested in other things, politics in particular, to the detriment of their studies. In business, the vast majority regarded the opportunities given them as something to be exploited for the quickest return. …… They learn nothing about business and become even less capable at doing business and earning an income from their activities. They become mere sleeping partners and at times not even that. Having sold, they no longer have anything to do with the business. They would go to the government for more licences, permits, shares, etc. …. ”
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Happy reading! 😀

Kaya nga pakapal nang pakapal ang mukha, este…make-up niya.

sabi nga nila… can’t correct a mistake by making another one folks.. that’s just not the way it should be done.. those who are advising the president and being paid with our taxpayers money… if you were in the tv series the apprentice.. donald trump will echo what were going to tell you know.. YOUR ALL FIRED!!!!!!

Majority congressmen back the EO. Talagang rubberstamp congress na ito. I wouldn’t be surprised that we’ll all wake up one morning only to discover that martial law has bee declared and approved by congress. Yehey! Instant Cha-Cha and FVR, JDV, GMA all stay in power. So sleep tight my dear kababayans and pray that a tsunami from the Pasig River swallows Malacanang.

What’s new? That’s the style of ATE GLUE kung alam nyang mabubulgar na naman ang mga baho niya she will do everything to conceal her evil deeds,THE END IS NEAR TO THIS EVIL ADMINISTRATION coz people are now realizing how evil GMA was.Hindi lahat ng oras mag tatanga tangahan lang ang tao,Ngayon pa,that some of the military men are withdrawing their support to this fake president,basta peke hindi magtatagal mabibisto rin at itoy kukupas.Mga pinoy magkaisa na sa pagbabago para sa bayan.

EO Evil Order or Executive order ???
Hindi na kailangan i-challenge sa supreme court yan, it is an obvious veiled threat sa mga potential witness against Un-Gloria.

Yabang lagi ni Bunye, kept on saying sa Korte natin pag-usapan yan. He kept on saying it whenever GMAs position is being challenged. Style bulok talaga si GMA and her alalay.

Siguro, hinde na nila kayang hawakan ang senado that is why ate Un-Gloria started using EO as a “Soft Touch” approach.

Yung EO means ENTITLED OBSTRUCTION while CPR means CURTAIL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE. These practices only shows us how far the administration will go to cling on to power. Basura na talaga ang gobyernong ito. This EO was issued to protect the rights of the people in the executive branch, but what about the CPR, sila lang ba ang may “rights”? As far as I know, the Bill of Rights is not exclusive to a few but to all.

GMA and her spindoctors told the pro-impeachment congressmen to bring the complaints against her to the proper forum and refrain from using media to try her by publicity.

Look who’s using the media now…. The dept. secretaries who were invited to the senate to shed light on the controversial NorthRail project did not attend citing EO 464. These secretaries instead held a presscon and explained this project to newsmen. Why not explain your side in the proper venue. Stop using the media daw, pero pag sila pwede. This administration is full of liars and cheats out to grind our country to the ground.

Palace spindoctors also said that Pres. Aquino had used this EO before…Another lie, it was a Memorandum Order, meaning an internal matter and is only limited to dept. secretaries and has attached guidelines.

GMA is a tyrant by refusing to be transparent. The public deserves to know how the gov’t. spends regardless of how these informations are revealed or acquired. Her continuing blunders has put her on the defensive again.

Once again GMA has painted herself to a corner. She’s running out of options. She may have survived the impeachment in the lowerhouse but the series of hearings in the senate has brought out the allegations she had managed to avoid in congress. I don’t care anymore if these hearings were in aid of legislation or to “fry” GMA, for as long as the truth will come out. Her attackdogs and mouthpieces can bad-mouth the senate for all I care, like I said, “truth comes out even in the weirdest ways”.

Konti na lang at babagsak na si pandak, kaya mga kababayan ko, konting dasal pa…..

How long will it take for the rest of the countrymen to wake up and stop supporting this REGIME?

EO was crafted by no other than 2 secretaries and her legal counsel, and AGAIN, “Raul Gonzales”, the upholder of Law and Justice (supposed) was one of the 3 crafters.

WHEN will this end? 2010? Sure?

i’ve read a line that goes: The first thing that the devil will do is to convince the world that he does not exist.

apply natin sa presidente niyo: The first thing that the cheater will do is to convice the world that cheating does not exist.

so there she goes, convincing the world that she won fair and square up to the point of bribing the doggies that are now loyally making silip inside her palda for more and more cash. and then the EO 464 which will keep mum the secretaries for fear that they might squel her secrets.

“gloria” does not exist, di ba? impyerno, meron tsaka GLUE-ria.

which reminds me of boy abunda’s political ad for GMA during the 2004 elections na parang kulto ang dating… musta na papa boy a?

EO 464 is definitely repressive and therefore unconstitutional. Besides, what is there to clear from the office of the president when someone is called by congress to shed light on certain issues? Not unless the president is trying to cover-up something the public should not know.

[…] Critics have also been talking of an "undeclared martial law" as they point to "draconian measures" that have already been imposed in succession through executive decisions, from the "calibrated preemptive response" (CPR) in dealing with rallies and demonstrations, EO 464 to the Philippine Army’s reported shoot-to-kill orders against recruiters for destabilization. […]

[…] Colmenares stressed that Panganiban should inhibit himself from all cases involving the President. These cases include the Calibrated Pre-emptive Response Policy and Executive Order 464, which bars government officials from testifying in congressional inquiries without permission from the Palace. […]

[…] A senior officer said that if Executive Order No. 464 will be lifted, a lot of those who might have personal knowledge of what happened might come out and follow the lead of Gudani and Lt. Col. Alexander Balutan. […]

[…] EO 464, which prohibits senior executive and military officials from appearing in Congress without the president’s permission, was issued by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on September 28, 2005. The order was issued as two military officers appeared before the Senate Committee on National Defense which began an investigation on the “Hello, Garci” controversy. It also came a week after National Security Norberto Gonzales testified before the Senate on the equally controversial Venable LLP contract. […]

[…] EO 464 requires Cabinet members, police and military generals, senior national security officials, and “such other officers as may be determined by the President” to seek President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s approval before appearing in any inquiry of the Senate or the House of Representatives. […]

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[…] EO 464 was issued on September 28, the day Brigadier General Francisco Gudani and Col. Alexander Balutan testified before the Senate on alleged electoral fraud in Mindanao during the 2004 elections. […]

[…] further added that the attempt to muzzle government executives through Executive Order 464 and the executive privilege are two examples of how the government clamps down on vital information […]