VICE PRESIDENT Sara Duterte, in her recent statement on the state of the country today, said she is doubtful if there will still be a Philippines by 2028 in time for the next Presidential elections. She was short of saying that from the way the country is governed by incumbent President, Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. she doubts if the country will survive.
Saying it without batting an eyelash could not be interpreted otherwise. That is, as far as the VP is concerned, the government is going to the drain, the way it is being run now. And that is exactly what the VP meant.
On the other hand, VP Sara has also ramped up her activities these days, and she is being built up by her well-organized groups, while actively criticizing the present leadership, all of which are clearly geared toward her Presidential run in 2028.
So, if she suspects that there might be no more Philippines by then, for what country will she be running for President?
Does VP Sara expect that if she wins the Presidency, her first order of the day is to resurrect the country? Or, if, as she claimed, there will be no more Philippines, from whom will she get the country and bring it back to life? From the US, China, or Japan?
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Senate President Vicente Sotto III is asking the question why he is singled out in a case filed by some “die-hard” DDS lawyers with the Supreme Court petitioning that he be cited in indirect contempt for issuing negative comments about the SC ruling.
The subject ruling questioned by Sotto was the one that the Supreme Court issued declaring the impeachment of VP Sara, which actually did not see trial by the Senate as “unconstitutional” for violating the one year bar in the Constitution. The same resolution was not reversed in the High Court’s ruling on the House’s Motion for Reconsideration.
While Sotto’s position gained supporters from several law experts like former Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, former Associate Justice Adolf Azcuna, College of Law deans and professors, the DDS lawyers led by Ferdinand Topacio, former Negros Congressman Jacinto Paras, non-lawyer and PGMA’s lackey Mike Defensor, and several others, decided to zero in on Sotto.
Our take on the issue is that they know that if the Supreme Court will be true to its mandate, the accusers can never win in their case. Why? Because they know that Sotto merely criticized the ruling and manifested his disagreement on it. Nowhere did Sotto make any statement recommending that Congress should not obey the SC ruling.
However, Sotto is just like any other citizen of the Republic who is Constitutionally-guaranteed of his freedom of speech and expression.
So, by zeroing in on the Senate President, what the complainants will certainly fail to get from the Supreme Court, they’ll get it from Sotto who will be subjected by them and their hired trolls to vicious political attacks, the most scathing of which is Sotto’s supposed lack of moral authority to comment on the SC ruling because the Senate President is only a graduate from the fictional “Wanbol University” of the defunct television comedy sitcom, “Iskul Bukol.”
Our position though is that Senate President Sotto will possibly have the last laugh. And the complainants –mostly lawyers – could end up “ma BULAGA” while they EAT their lunch, courtesy of …
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Now we will know whether Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go will do a Senator Bato dela Rosa.
Yes, Go is now officially included as one of those “enablers” of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs that allegedly resulted to the killings of thousands of suspected drug addicts and dealers.
Go, along with Senator Dela Rosa and some others, was implicated in the alleged crime against humanity by a former police official-turned General Manager of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) P/Col. Royena Garma.
But even before Dela Rosa’s name was officially mentioned by the International Criminal Court (ICC) he immediately “vanished” from the public’s view and stopped attending his Senate duties. He did the disappearing act with barely talks of an arrest warrant already issued against him minus the proof.
Go, however, preferred to show his innocence by continuously making himself visible both in the Senate and elsewhere in the country.
