They keep on trying

MANILA, Philippines - Try and try until you succeed.

This seems to be the underlying motto of the allies of President Arroyo in the House of Representatives in pushing for Charter change. After the Villafuerte resolution failed to muster the threshold number to bypass the Senate into convening Congress as a Constituent Assembly, the loyal Arroyo foot soldiers in the House of Representatives led by Speaker Prospero Nograles filed another resolution seeking to amend the Constitution in a manner in which an ordinary law is being passed.

The Nograles resolution is but a confirmation of the Arroyo allies’ desperation to keep President Gloria Arroyo in power even beyond 2010. The Charter change move appears like the desperate dance of deviants who do not know their left from their right foot the way they don’t know their Constitution and could not feel the pulse of the people.

Loyal soldiers as they are, the allies of President Arroyo are pulling all strings and inventing all schemes to justify the unjustifiable, knowing fully well that in 2010 will ring the death knell that sounds their political doom.

But as we all say, “there is no harm in trying,” maybe our supposed representatives are hopeful “baka makalusot.” — LLOYD IAN ZARAGOZA, Law Student