Call it Plan B v.2.0: House readies constituent assembly signed by 194 lawmakers.<\/a> the beauty of it is, it also absorbs Plan C (having to push through with elections). The Pichay B v. 2.0+C v. 1.5 would accomplish the following: achieve the proposal of amendments, submit it to a plebiscite timed to coincide with local elections (after, possibly, a brief postponement of the polls from May to November), permit the local elections to distract the plebiscite vote, and, nullify the way the local-national elections would be fought (to elect an impeachment Congress).<\/p>\n
It’s brilliant and possibly, foolproof.<\/p>\n
But in case that’s too clever, plan D (electing an administration-controlled constitutional convention) gets a fresh twist, too: Law calling for Charter Convention proposed<\/a>. An appointed, not elected, Constitutional Convention (call it Plan D v. 1.5). The law could be easily passed. And then the Palace could argue: what, One Voice, etc., you’re against even a convention? Why? You want to run for delegate? And it just might work with the public.<\/p>\n
News even from the official propaganda organs that seemingly portray dissent within the ranks of the faithful –like this one<\/a>– are causing them to be going great guns over at Malaya: and I must say, I tend to agree with what they say they’ve pieced together.\u00a0Love-hate relationship of GMA, JDV unfolds<\/a>, one story says, with the flipside being Mike’s boys sharpen knives against Joe<\/a>. Stories such as Malaya’s<\/em> Palace: There was no flip-flop on initiative<\/a> or the Inquirer’s<\/em> Cabinet men in row over Charter change loss agree to truce<\/a> are merely reports on clumsy damage-control, then.<\/p>\n
In the punditocracy, the columns of Connie Veneracion<\/a> and Alex Magno<\/a> are delightfully congruent today. the antidote to their columns is Tony Abaya’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n
John Mangun<\/a> is bullish on the stock market. But Newsbreak<\/a> reports on gin packed in sachets. This reminds me again: is the economy really doing well? Again, last night, a friend from the motorcycle industry says sales are down 30% this year, and no one can figure out why.This is an efficient and potentially, grow-grow-grow industry, and yet it’s best minds are stumped as to why they seem to have hit a brick wall. Is there a dangerous disjoint in our economy no one wants to, or can, see?<\/p>\n
Vanity Fair<\/a> has a probing feature on Carl Rove, enduring political genius or dinosaur?<\/p>\n
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