Dirtier than dirty

Looks like the Liberal Party (LP) still tries to project a holier-than-thou image, which is quite hypocritical, besides which, the cleaner than clean image they tried to project in 2010 no longer works, considering the even greater corruption in the Aquino government today.

LP bigwig Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad, reacting to news reports of VP Jojo Binay’s party, having coalesced with Erap Estrada’s party to form the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), said the LP is at this time not thinking of coalescing with other parties, saying, it is too early to make any conclusions, “no matter how tentative, about possible coalition arrangements among parties and personalities.”

He added: “For sure, the Aquino administration will not forge any coalition with parties and personalities where its anti-corruption and good governance will be compromised and weakened,” which was a dig at Binay’s UNA, which apparently may be accepting and fielding the allies of former President Gloria Arroyo.

“That’s why (LP) is careful to choose its candidates in 2013. If it can, the LP can forge partnerships with other parties and groups. But if and when it does, the relationship has to be value-based and programmatic,” he said.

Just who is Butch Abad trying to impress with the LP’s anti-corruption claim, the voters?

Just who did Noynoy and his LP recruit in 2010 to build up the LP if not the allies of Gloria Arroyo, who all were her partymates in Lakas but who are now LP members?

Speaker Sonny Belmonte was certainly a Lakas stalwart then, Lakas chairman of Quezon City chapter. So were all other LPs today in the House, all of whom have allied themselves with Noynoy and the LPs.

Were they recruited because this party and its personalities do not “compromise and weaken” the hypocritical “anti-corruption” drive of the LP?

Gimme a break. These old Lakas now new LPs are the same corrupt politicians who now try to wear a halo. And they are the very ones being protected by their latest master, Noynoy — simply because they are his allies today. But for how long, given their track record of being political butterflies multiple times over?

In Cory’s time, they were with the Laban ng Demokratiko Party (LDP) headed by Ramon Mitra Sr. — the biggest political party then, when Cory was in power.

LDP crumbled when Fidel Ramos, with his paper party, Lakas, won the presidency, and suddenly Lakas, the party of perhaps just five politicians, became the biggest political party, during the Fidel’s reign.

Then came Erap Estrada, with his Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino and his then unified umbrella Lamp, which did not last too long, as his term was aborted after a coup d’etat mounted by the then opposition and its evil civil society spearheaded by Lakas.

And so came the second coming of Lakas, with about the same politicians who were with Mitra, then Ramos, then Erap and again with Gloria, and naturally Lakas grew even more — until it was presidential elections again, and with Gloria stepping down from Malacañang.

Then came the death of Cory Aquino, and cashing in on her death, Noynoy the son, ran for the presidency with the LP as his banner. With the yellows as well as the Lakas politicians, tasting political power with the LPs, there was suddenly a beeline for these same politicians to be sworn in as LP members.

It’s still the same doggy politicians, now wearing the LP collar, which collar will again be discarded, for a new collar — probably the UNA, or the PDP-Laban of Jojo Binay, who seems to be on his way to becoming president in 2016 — that is if the LP, now in power and position, does not use the PCOS cheating machine to get its weak candidate elected through fraud. –Ninez Cacho-Olivares, Daily Tribune