Amid the Cloud of Crisis

The issue besieging the leadership in this country no longer needs a backgrounder. Rather, it needs clarity and proper perspective amid the smoke of propaganda and befuddlement of the issue being belched by some politicians and sectors of the society.

There is no doubt that President Macapagal-Arroyo no longer enjoys the moral ascendancy to lead this country. Assuming that she won the presidency last 2004, her mere actuation of trying to rig the election as revealed by the ‘Gloria-gate’ tapes is enough reason for her to resign. Her resignation is the only ethical way of giving back the lost trust this country has on the highest office of the land.

A lot has been said about forming a new leadership after her. A lot has proposed ways on how the government should be by the time she steps down. These are all garbage talk.

The Constitution has an installed crisis resolution program for an event such as this. The Constitution, obviously, gives the mandate to the Vice President to succeed if the President resigns. It is very clear.

Yet, we hear the Opposition, muddling the crisis even more by acting like a pack of wolves by trying to dictate who among on their likings should come next into power. They are nothing but power-hungry low-lifes that deserves the stake so as they could be burn.

The Opposition might have done the good deed of exposing the ‘Gloria-gate’ tapes, but choosing or dictating who should lead next, as if the revelation mandated them to be in power, is an absolute delusion on their part, a delusion that the likes of Rep. Escudero has been indulging himself throughout this crisis.

When asked whether Vice President Noli De Castro can succeed in the event of the President’s resignation, this holier-than-thou pretender brazenly replied: ‘Hindi pa sa amin nagpapakilala si Noli de Castro… We still don’t know his kind of government…etc.” What strong stomach he got there, eh. Rep. Escudero manifesting his presumptuousness to reveal the tail of power-lust demon he and his colleagues has within them.

Of course, this argument rest on the assumption that the President will resign. Something that she strongly denies she would ever do (as of press time). She thinks she can survive this storm with imperturbable indifference to the clamor of the people. Yet, can’t she see that her office has been buried without salvation by the catastrophic avalanche brought by the thunder of her own ‘lapse of judgment’?

This writer hopes that self-sacrifice wins in the heart of the President soon, and gives her the courage to let go. I hope it happens before this crisis is forced to end in an ugly resolution with the absolute certainty that it would be on the expense of the Filipinos in general.

Note: This should have been posted in the midst of the crisis besieging the Arroyo regime. Though it might sound passe since the Arroyo has survived the onslaught of calls for her resignation over the Gloria-gate tapes, this writer thinks it is still revelant on the issue of her damaged moral ascendancy over the Filipino people.