Smells like opportunity from crisis EDITORIAL 04/14/2011

Smells like opportunity from crisis

EDITORIAL

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04/14/2011
Speaker Sonny Belmonte is resurrecting ugly memories and along with these, nasty speculations with his inordinate offer for Noynoy to assume emergency powers even before he had asked for it.

The House should have been the countervailing force in government on such instances, such as the President seeking extra powers beyond that guaranteed him under the Constitution. But the Speaker was practically offering these on a silver platter to Noynoy.

The Speaker did not actually say it, but his statement that the House is open to proposals for Noynoy to assume extra powers is practically telling Noynoy that these are his for the taking.

The emergency powers that the House broached to Noynoy were supposedly meant to address the effects of the surging fuel prices on the country..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110414com1.html