Dalai Lama saves Noynoy men from Miriam’s wrath
By Angie M. Rosales and Aytch S. de la Cruz 11/20/2010President Aquino’s Cabinet officials who will hurdle the bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA) may need to pay homage to the Dalai Lama.
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago who earlier had threatened a massacre of President Aquino’s lightweight Cabinet has softened her stance in blocking the confirmation of some officials, saying she has decided to heed the advice of Dalai Lama about “compas-sion” on her threat to invoke the one-person veto in the CA.
Santiago said she learned the virtue of compassion in Tibetan Buddhism, after meeting the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled religious leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, last year in Rome and sometime early this month in New Delhi.
The senator emphasized that she is bound by the Buddhist virtues of compassion, peace, and non-violence, but she will press for the rule of law.
The Palace, however, is brimming with confidence over Cabinet appointees hurdlingthe powerful CA that indicated yesterday the question of reappointment or the use of a “two-strike” policy on those to be bypassed had yet to cross Aquino’s mind..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101120hed3.html
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