As opaque as Gloria EDITORIAL 05/26/2010

As opaque as Gloria

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 05/26/2010 Noynoy Aquino, already unprepared for the presidency, appears to be even more unprepared to form his Cabinet, which is an important task, since his choices — or at least his “screening” committee’s recommendations — are to be providing him guidance by way of policies and more importantly, of going about the ways of governance. Earlier, he had admitted that he was ready to appoint the late Gov. Rafael Nantes to his Cabinet but that the offer had come too late, as the governor died in a plane crash. He also offered the Department of Justice portfolio to retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno, who had declined the offer, preferring instead to be some kind of a consultant.  But if, as vowed by Aquino, he would be doing away with all the presidential advisers to trim the budget, Puno as a consultant or presidental adviser would not come about, unless Noynoy backtraks. Names for his Cabinet are being floated, and they seem to be composed of some old Cabinet hands, from the Ramos administration as well as the Gloria Arroyo administration. At least two known Gloria Arroyo Cabinet ranked officials have been more or less named by Noynoy: Former Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman who quickly accepted the portfolio, just as she did when Gloria announced, even before her swearing in last January 2001, that Soliman would be her DSWD secretary. The other Cabinet-ranked Gloria official, Teresita Deles, has also been tapped to head the peace process of sorts. What it is beginning to look like is that there will be more of the same under a Noynoy presidency — assuming that he will be proclaimed by Congress as the president-elect. And it will in end be the Cabinet that will be controlling Noynoy, if not manipulating him, given his vast inexperience and his utter lack of constitutional and legal matters, not to mention his laziness, given his no-production record even in legislative matters.... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100526com1.html

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