Desiderata for PNoy and his Cabinet

Just go and fade away into the silence of oblivion. Pray that the incoming dispensation will hopefully be kinder and be imbued with some measure of compassion, than what you were in relation to your predecessors and political enemies. Pray that what you did to GMA will not be done to you, "bara y bara," "an eye for an eye" or "a tooth for a tooth." Just disappear and lick your wounds in silence, with Mar Roxas, Dinky Soliman, Butch Abad, and Jojo Ochoa. Be silent, for there shall be no more Sonny Coloma to explain the unexplainable and none to create a semblance of reason to your government's many imperfections.

Just be engulfed by the safety of anonymity and fade like a shadow. And never look back. For all your former allies have abandoned you, except a few who are still there and may soon follow. Even Governor Salceda, (don't ever say, " Et Tu, Brute") your classmate under GMA, has left you, first, for Grace and later, in double somersault, to President Duterte. The political opportunists are done with you. They have no more use for you in their trapo politics. Those butterflies have jumped ship when your once impregnable vessel was about to experience a wreck in last elections' LP Titanic. They have all joined the bandwagon of the new flavor for six years. Then, they will jump ship again. These insects are changing colors in a biological metamorphosis called adaptation.

Go and pray hard that the Ombudsman, the Sandiganbayan, the courts and the new Congress will not conduct investigations in aid of persecutions to give you a dose of your own medicine. Pray that new senators like your favorites Leila de Lima and Liza Hontiveros-Baraquel will never turn their backs on you and on your minions, including the Tesdaman, and revive issues in your closets, aided perhaps by such spurned former allies as Grace Poe and Chiz Escudero. Pray that they will rather forget the DAP, the Hacienda Luisita in relation to Chief Justice Corona, the Mamasapano and the Basilan massacres, the Yolanda funds and the alleged Trillanes dozen trips to Beijing in relation to Spratlys. Just pray that the gods in Mount Apo will be kinder to you.

Retire in silence in the Carribean or in some outlying tent in the peripheries of the Sahara. You have done enough for your country. Go and recluse yourself like a monk in Tibet and in Siberia. Avoid the limelight and shy away from TV interviews, lest you may say something that will trigger some suspicion or anger from the new gods in Malacañang. Just go knowing that you did your best and did not steal money unlike other presidents here and in other countries. You are rich enough and you are not the kind of politician who would stray from the straight and narrow path. But then, the new guys in the block may not be looking at you in more positive light.

When Don Sergio Osmeña was defeated by Manuel Roxas, he came back to Cebu which embraced him and crowned him with the accolade of being the grand old man. When Carlos P. Garcia was defeated by Diosdado Macapagal, he came home to Bohol and started writing "balak." When FVR retired and his man Joe de Venecia lost to Erap, he became a mature statesman in the mold of Mahatir Mohammad of Malaysia and Lee Kuan Hew of Singapore. When GMA retired she went straight to hospital confinement. And so, when you retire, where shall you go? Will the tenants in Luisita celebrate in jubilation to welcome you in loving embrace? I have my strong doubts. And so, to PNoy, we say, just go. What matters most is that you were an honest president who just missed what matters most, and was spurned when your boy lost to a provinciano.