Kumustahan blues

Hurt na hurt daw sina SP Alan Peter at Sen Pia Cayetano na walang nangumusta sa kanila matapos ang putukan sa Senado. With matching crocodile tears pa si Ate Pia. Ayun pala, kinumusta sila ng ilang minority senators sa group chat. Anong drama yon?

Kitang kita pati sa news reports at mga FB live at selfie nila mismo na the guys and gals of the new majority were unharmed. Even, that they were all quite pleased with themselves, having successfully established the Duterte Bloc as the majority — thanks to the four balimbings and the ICC fugitive who made a surprise appearance, and disappearance  — which means hawak ngayon ng DDS ang impeachment trial, ligtas na si VP Sara.

Yun naman talaga ang point, di ba? To take control of the trial, find devious lawyerly ways to archive the case again or, barring that, to disallow the body of evidence that show probable cause? Kaya hindi kapanipaniwala ang chismis ni Sen Imee na ayaw din ni  PBBM na matuloy ang trial dahil maa-acquit lang si VP at mananalo sa 2028 — mas gusto daw ni PBBM na mabawi ang majority at pagkatapos ay mag-ConAss para no-elections na lang sa 2028, or something wild like that.

Bottom line, ang mantra ng DDS ay: huwag nang ituloy ang trial dahil maa-acquit naman, sayang lang ang gastos at oras at pagod.

Sey ko naman, kahit pa mangyari na maa-acquit lang ang VP, importante pa rin na masaksihan at masubaybayan ng bayan ang paglilitis, marinig ang mga ebidensiya, gayon din ang mga depensa ni VP Sara, sapagkat iyan mismo ang hinihingi ng bayan, na ipinapahiwatig ng overwhelming YES to impeachment ng 214 (of 254) congressional district reps and 42 (of 64) partylist reps. Sigaw ng SuperMajority across the archipelago ang Impeachment Trial, no ifs or buts.

Kaya ang masasabi ko lang sa Cayetano sibs na nagtatampo dahil di sila kinumusta after the putukan na wala namang nasaktan: Wala ring nangumusta sa aming mga madlang pipol matapos kaming bulagain at galitin ng panibagong kudeta sa senado para protektahan na naman si VP Sara. Akala ba ninyo ay puro kami closet DDS na pumapalakpak at nagdiriwang? Nakakapanlumo, sa totoo lang. Hurt na hurt din kami. Kumustahin niyo naman kami.

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Asa pa…

Kung hindi na babalik si Bato, ibig sabihin 12 na lang ang DDS bloc. At kung hindi na bumalik si Robin (?), 11 na lang. No majority, either way.

Here’s praying that all seats are declared vacant on Monday, and JV Ejercito and Migs Zubiri rejoin Sotto et al instead of abstaining again, and that the Villar sibs and Legarda-cum-Leviste come to their senses and redeem themselves by making balimbing again. Para ma-convene na ang impeachment court. #Forthwith

37 shots fired!

Habang hinihintay natin ang official report ng  PNP at ng NBI sa naganap na putukan sa Senado kahapon on Day 3 of Cayetano‘s SP gig, heto muna ang Facebook post ni Mon Tulfo at ang news report ng Abante tnt.

Ramon Tulfo (Mon) 6:48 a.m.
https://www.facebook.com/isumbongmo.kaytulfo

Ito ang tunay na nangyari sa putukan sa Senado kagabi, ayon sa aking tweety bird: The 37 shots fired came from personnel of the Senate sergeant-at-arms under Mao Aplasca.

No shots were fired by NBI agents.

Aplasca and Bato were classmates at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA).

Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano and, of course, fugitive of justice Sen. Bato staged the commotion.

They wanted to gain public sympathy and call on the stupid DDS to gather outside the Senate.

Ayaw rin ni Cayetano na matuloy ang impeachment ni VP Sara kaya gumawa siya ng scenario, ayon sa aking tweet-tweet.

Basta bading madrama, sabi ni tweety bird.

Bato nakaalis na sa Senado?
ABANTE TnT https://tnt.abante.com.ph

Nakaalis na umano sa gusali ng Senado si Senador Bato dela Rosa nitong Huwebes ng madaling-araw, Mayo 14, ayon sa impormasyong nakalap ng Abante.

Ayon sa mga source, namataan na magkasamang umalis sina Dela Rosa at Senador Robin Padilla bandang alas-3:00 hanggang alas-4:00 ng madaling-araw mula sa Senate complex.

Dagdag pa rito, ayon umano sa Senate security log, eksaktong 2:35 ng madaling-araw ang log out ni Padilla.

Kasunod ito ng nangyaring insidente ng putukan at nangyaring lockdown sa loob ng gusali noong Miyerkoles ng gabi, Mayo 13.

Kung hindi na babalik si Bato, ibig sabihin 12 na lang ang DDS bloc. At kung hindi na bumalik si Robin,  11 na lang. No majority, either way.

Here’s praying that all seats are declared vacant on Monday, and JV Ejercito and Migs Zubiri rejoin Sotto et al instead of abstaining again, and that the Villar sibs and Legarda-cum-Leviste come to their senses and redeem themselves by making balimbing again. Para ma-convene na ang impeachment court. #Forthwith

The Senate shift

Hindi naman ako nagulat, pero nadismaya nang lubusan, when on the very day that the Lower House approved overwhelmingly (257 of 318 ) the Articles of Impeachment vs. the VP ay saka naman nagkudeta sa Senado — biglang naging majority of 13 ang dating minority DDS bloc of 9 (ImeeMarcos, ChizEscudero, JoelVillanueva, BongGo, Bato, RobinPadilla, RodanteMarcoleta, JinggoyEstrada, AlanPeterCayetano).

Hindi lang napasipot napaapir ng Cayetano siblings (it would seem) si Bato from hiding, napabaliktad rin  ang apat na dati’y nasa Sotto majority: ang magkapatid na Villar, ang Pia na kapatid ni APC of course, and the political butterfly Legarda-cum-Leviste, mother of the kulangkulang solarboy. Dynasties all, with axes to grind, legal cases pending, staking their political futures on a Duterte comeback, kapit sa patalim.

I hope Ronald Llamas is right, that it’s a manipis, even a shaky, majority that could shift yet again, sana soon.

Sana rin sumuko na si Bato, stop giving the Senate an excuse to delay the trial. Then we will see what the Cayetanos are up to, really. They’ll be calling the shots, these two lawyers, and I imagine there’ll be a lot of legal hair-splitting over objections already raised by Sara mimso, that the charges lacked proof, the hearings were a fishing expedition, and the complainants were politically motivated.

I hope they don’t do a Makoy circa 1985. Back in the first Sandiganbayan trial of Ver et al in the Ninoy assassination case, Marcos managed to disallow all the evidence unearthed by the Agrava Fact-Finding Board that found Ver et al indictable, eventually acquitting all the accused in November ’85. We know what happened not too long after that.

Kung maniniwala tayo sa surveys taken at the height of the Justice Committee’s hearings, it would seem that the madlang pipol have heard enough allegations, and now they want to hear from the VP, there’s just no getting away from it. Never mind what Cayetano’s Bible says. I’m sure we can find another saying the exact opposite. #Forthwith