Villar resigns-It's election time

[cottonmouth]

For me, all of them are laughing matter. Mao nga Bayani Fernando gihapon ko.

We'll see kun modagan sya sa congress (lower or upper houses). Di pa man tested imo idol...but I give him the benefit of the doubt, I like his policies though. He's a big fish in a small pond, it remains to be seen how he will perform in the ocean.

[godsaint]

Sakto ang iyang gibuhat.Sa tanang aspiring candidate for president,si Villar pa lang gyud ang open.Meaning sya lang gyud ang tunay nga naay tumong mo serbisyo sa mga Filipino.Dapat lang gyud mo resign sya di parehas sa uban politiko dha nga kapit tuko sa pwesto.

[cottonmouth]

I have no problem with M. Villar for 2010 president. He is a good businessman and that is what this country needs. Leave the lawyers in the courtrooms. We need a business minded president to spur growth and development. We can have our own Thaksin but hopefully not the same tragedy.

[spectre]

every one of them has an agenda.

[giddyboy]

I highly doubt about the palace's influence on his ouster as senate president. First of all you have to determine who are the guys responsible for his ouster. And amazingly, it was spearheaded by the opposition senators themselves -iya ra sad mga panyero sa opposisyon. Do you think the palace can command these opposition senators to fire Villar? Of course absolutely not. In fact gamahay man gani cya nga si Chez and the younger Estrada also abandoned him. But as what he said,"that's understandable".

that i think is the best logic. simply put, he no longer has the support of the majority of the chamber. Period.

it has been mentioned even in the article. He lost support since the C-5 scandal as they thought the issue could affect whole Senate negatively, perception-wise.

People, pls read & digest the article before u concoct any bad chismis...unsa gud tawon labot sa Malacanang ana? The senate is a separate branch and even the opposition were the ones pushing for his ouster via Senate coup...nana sab padung nasab ni tingali ni GMA noh? ...LOLs

and btw, his candidacy for 2010 is not even the issue here...LOLs

in fact, he could be in a much better position to run for 2010 president if he still remained as the senate president and has still the support of the majority...but unfortunately he can't...his resignation via Senate coup could be detrimental to his candidacy obviously due to the lost support he got. maayo nlng gani iyang gi unhan ug resign to save face.

[mata_hari]

^^ the senate may be a separate branch but this does not discount the possibility that Malacañang may have something to do with it... 7 pro ad and 7 opposition senators voted off Villar in favor of Enrile... some of the oppositions who voted against him are vying for the 2010 presidential elections. and please don't forget about Sens. Joker Arroyo, Benigno Aquino III, Alan Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan and Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. abstaining, fellow oppositions.

what's the hottest news around... Jocjoc Bolante, which SEn. Villar so wanted to prosecute, if there's a perfect timing for the political revamp, why now? how perfect is the timing!

why enrile? though a very well known opposition, now Pro-ad na ni siya..

hmmm.. chismis, anyone?

[cottonmouth]

why enrile? though a very well known opposition, now Pro-ad na ni siya..

hmmm.. chismis, anyone?

Welcome to the dog-eat-dog world of politics. Where nobody is a friend or enemy. Where only the strong survives. Ain't no place for the faint-hearted.

You think it's politically motivated? Well, the senate is a political institution on the first place. What goes around comes around.

[godwhacker]

^^ the senate may be a separate branch but this does not discount the possibility that Malacañang may have something to do with it... 7 pro ad and 7 opposition senators voted off Villar in favor of Enrile... some of the oppositions who voted against him are vying for the 2010 presidential elections. and please don't forget about Sens. Joker Arroyo, Benigno Aquino III, Alan Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan and Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. abstaining, fellow oppositions.

what's the hottest news around... Jocjoc Bolante, which SEn. Villar so wanted to prosecute, if there's a perfect timing for the political revamp, why now? how perfect is the timing!

why enrile? though a very well known opposition, now Pro-ad na ni siya..

hmmm.. chismis, anyone?

Forget about the 7 admin senators they are just fillers. 7 opposition senators would be too much to fire Villar if Bolante is the issue and for what? Because Bolante is playing it smart and they look stupid? Ug sa tagalog pa naisahan! And 7 opposition senators would be too much if they fire Villar because each of them are running for president. If this is true it would result in the opposition's failure to get a president elected in 2010. No wonder until now they are deeply fragmented.

If you dig up the news, Lacson admitted that the "works" was hatched long time back even before the arrival of Bolante in the country. And what works was this? Of course the C5. Even if all the admin senators voted to fire Villar because of harassing Bolante and no one from the opposition agrees because Villar was doing it good to their satisfaction, Villar would still be the senate president until now.

Suko lang siguro ang iyang mga kauban sa opposisyon kay C5 would add more financial power to his political war chest, then he announced his candidacy well to early. Namentaha ba.

[giddyboy]

^^ the senate may be a separate branch but this does not discount the possibility that Malacañang may have something to do with it... 7 pro ad and 7 opposition senators voted off Villar in favor of Enrile... some of the oppositions who voted against him are vying for the 2010 presidential elections. and please don't forget about Sens. Joker Arroyo, Benigno Aquino III, Alan Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan and Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. abstaining, fellow oppositions.

what's the hottest news around... Jocjoc Bolante, which SEn. Villar so wanted to prosecute, if there's a perfect timing for the political revamp, why now? how perfect is the timing!

why enrile? though a very well known opposition, now Pro-ad na ni siya..

hmmm.. chismis, anyone?

when u say, "does not discount the possibility that Malacanang may have something to do with it", it can be called an assumption, a guess, and has the tendency to lead to rumors/chismis. even if 7 pro-admin voted in favor of his ouster, the fact that this plan of ousting him has been hatched even long before Bolante arrived here. It started off sa start of the C5 controversy. and who made that issue out in the open? SEN. LACSON.

Sen Cayetano even believed the 2010 presidential elections is behind the move against Villar.

"They have been saying from the start of the 14th Congress when Villar was elected Senate president that the playing field should be leveled," Cayetano said.

So it would be much better to say instead that "THE OPPOSITION may have something to do with it, NOT MALACANANG".

and WHY ENRILE? is this some sort of questioning his character and capacity to lead the senate? it's not even debatable.

Sen. Panfilo Lacson nominated Enrile to be Senate president after Senate president pro tempre Jose "Jinggoy" Estrada reopened the session. The nomination was seconded by Sen. Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan.

Out of the 23 senators, 14 voted for Enrile while six abstained.

It is not a question of whether one is in the admin or opposition as long as he gets the support of the majority.

why can't some anti-PGMA's accept the fact that not all that is happening in the country PGMA is involved huh? even if we say the opposition and critics are the ones doing it, some would still have the thinking that PGMA is behind it? i just can't understand why. maybe chismis mode? LOLs

here's what Malacanang said in an official statement:

Malacañang said it has nothing to do with the change in leadership at the Senate.

"We respect the independence of any action taken by the Senate regarding its own organization. The Palace has no involvement whatsoever in the senate's leadership change," said Presidential Political Adviser Gabriel Claudio in a statement sent to reporters.

but then again, if u r in a chismis mode, anything goes...

[godwhacker]

Ingon man gud si Manny Villar, "Dumating ako sa ganito dahil sa sipag at tyaga^"
Pero ang mga tagalog dili man ilang tan-aw gud sipag at tyaga, C5 at taga^ man!