All for the presidency
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Doubts persist that losing VP candidate and now Transportation and Communications Chief Mar Roxas is seeking a congressional seat in his hometown as a first step to landing the Speakership, which position he will be reportedly using to launch his presidential bid for 2016.
The doubts are there, if the Speakership position is to be his launching ship to catapult him to the presidency, mainly because historically, no Speaker who made a bid for the presidency ever won that high seat. Speaker Ramon Mitra tried, but lost miserably, as did Speaker Jose de Venecia.
Also, if one eyeing the Speakership thinks that his stock will rise, on the assumption that being in that fourth highest position in government, he can junk that idea, given the fact that there has hardly been a time in our recent political history when a House leader gets a high performance and trust rating, since it is common knowledge that the House, its leaders and members, are merely the rubber stamp House of the Malacañang tenant.
Stated differently, the Speaker and his congressmen are puppets of the President, doing what he asks them to do, sweetening these “marching orders” with promises of pork and more pork.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111004com2.html
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