Now that the Senate is poised to formally kick out Cayetano as Senate President, he reiterated his worn-out scheme for “power sharing” with Senate President Pro tempore Sherwin Gatchalian. Of course, Gatchalian junked the idea. Cayetanism ‘til the very end, and it will never secure the victory the beleaguered Alan Peter thinks he deserves.
Marcoleta, despite his grandiose claim of being super-intelligent, couldn’t cut the mustard. His Senate hearing was a disaster and he, former Rep. Mike Defensor, the counsel Levito Baligod and the sponsors of the witnesses should be disciplined for the pulp fiction they dished out.
Coverage is coverage and it is the editorial discretion of newspapers how stories are written, edited and put to bed. Walang pakialam si Marcoleta kung ano ang isusulat ng mga pahayagan.
Even Cayetano and presiding officer Senator Loren Legarda had to concede that the determination of a quorum takes precedence over any motion on the floor. “I thought he (Marcoleta) said he is good with rules?” non-lawyer and Wanbol University alum Sotto taunted.
Will Bob Dylan visit us for a gig? Why not? Let’s bring him here to work on “Sara’s Impeachment Blues,” “The Seas They Are A-Takin’” about China’s expansionism and uncouth behavior, and “Murder No More” about extrajudicial killings. That would be the day.
Surely, the old rich want to get Sara out of the way since they would not relish being led by a President who cannot string her thoughts in three sentences and express them in intelligible English.
Alan Peter Cayetano and Pia Cayetano should stop pretending that their theory of a Senate “under attack” on May 13, 2026 is sustainable. The video of their sergeant at arms flubbing his shots and then having the rifle fixed before firing a volley of shots into a dark and empty room killed their ploy.
Let the people in their thousands weigh in on the trial and push the Senators to do their jobs. Let the political demands for justice and accountability be heard inside the halls of the Senate.
With what happened at the Senate, kahit lumuhod pa si Cayetano sa asin at ingudngod niya ang noo niya sa sahig habang nananalangin hanggang ito ay dumugo, walang tataya sa kanya.
“[W]hether the law exists merely as a shield for the powerful when accountability finally reaches them, or whether it still carries its highest purpose which is the attainment of justice. The law was never intended to provide an excuse for evasion, nor to become a weapon wielded only by those with power. It exists so that even the voiceless dead, whose cries never reached a courtroom, are not forgotten by justice.”
