Same turncoats next election year FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/24/2010

Same turncoats next election year

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/24/2010 Not surprisingly, with Noynoy Aquino now in Malacañang and Gloria Arroyo out of it, the Liberal Party (LP) that claims to be the non-trapo party, disdaining trapo politics, is now showing its true trapo color, swearing in the turncoats coming from Lakas-Kampi-CMD, to build up its party members and become the dominant political party in the House of Representatives. But turncoatism is expected, with congressmen then allied with the outgoing Malacañang tenant, making a beeline to join the party identified with the new Malacañang tenant. Quite frankly, no matter how big the LP becomes, due of course to the fact that Noynoy Aquino will be sitting in Malacañang, these same turncoats and some more, even from the LP, will also be swearing in as party members of whoever wins Malacañang in 2016, or earlier, in the event the chief executive is ousted, resigns, or, as the Supreme Court ruled, has “constructively resigned,” is permanently incapacitated, or is impeached. This is how trapo politics always goes, since the party system in this country is very, very weak and unprincipled, with no ideology but to stay in power and position and allied with the new administration. During Cory Aquino’s presidency, the biggest political party identified with her was Ramon Mitra’s LDP (Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino), which later lost virtually all its LDP members when Cory endorsed Fidel Ramos instead of Mitra as her presidential bet.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100624com2.html

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