Defining the presidency of Pres. Aquino

For our special presentation on our talkshow Straight from the Sky, we continue or return to our travelogue that we inter-rupted in order to interview those first responders to the Super Typhoon "Yolanda". So tonight we bring back our Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Delmar Tours & Travel, The Footsteps of our Lord Jesus Christ. This time we visit Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel and motor to the ancient city of Caesarea that was built by King Herod.

Then we finally went to Jerusalem, passing through Ein Ka-rem in the Church of the Visitation, the traditional house of Zechariah and Elizabeth, the mother of St. John the Baptist and cousin of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who visited her for six months. You can watch this very interesting travelogue on SkyCable's channel 61 at 8 p.m. with replays on Wednesday and Saturday and MyTV channel 30 at 9 p.m. on M-W-F.

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I was watching the TV reports on Pres. Benigno "PNoy" Aquino III's visit to Tokyo, Japan and I was aghast when once more he lashed at his critics, blaming the media for the problems happening in our country, then he let go a statement that will forever define his presidency when he said, "Bahala na si Lord sa inyo, Busy ako!" Translated, "Let the Lord deal with you, I'm busy." Yes, this is the very statement that shows the Aquino arrogance and devil-may-care attitude that has now defined his presidency. Come now Mr. President, since when were you ever busy? The word "Noynoying" became a byword in this country for your do-nothing presidency!

Is being busy the president's reason that more than a month since Super Typhoon "Yolanda" struck the Visayas, this president has never showed his face to our brethren in Northern Cebu which was just as badly devastated as the rest of Leyte and Panay? We Cebuanos would never forget the last time Pres. PNoy came to Cebu, a couple of days after the Oct.15th earthquake where he visited the rubble of the fallen belfry of the iconic Basilica del Sto. Niño, yet he never cared to drop by the crisis center that the City of Cebu set up just outside the Sto. Niño, just a few meters away.

Apparently Christiane Amanpour was correct when she asked Pres. Aquino whether this natural disaster and his lack of response to it would define his presidency. Of course, the presi-dent didn't respond directly to that question. But like what we've been writing about the president since Super Typhoon Yolanda struck, this natural disaster exposed the incompetence of PNoy (actually we already knew it) and brought it out into the world stage. Now the world knows that the Philippines has no leadership at all.

This includes PNoy's sidekick DILG Sec. Manuel "Mar" Roxas who at the height of CNN's coverage of the relief operations in Tacloban City revealed to the nation what stuff is Mar Roxas made of. For instance when he was asked by a CNN reporter why there were still bodies lying just a few meters away from them, Sec. Mar Roxas retorted, "No, those are not the same bodies, they were already removed. I don't know where these bodies came from." When I heard him say that I was totally aghast that he would lie before the world stage, which CNN covers.

Then last week during the joint congressional meeting of the Oversight Committee on the 2010 National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Act of 2010, where Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez was present (but Sec. Roxas did not attend despite being invited), it revealed a lot about the politics that permeates the mind of Roxas. His now infamous words, "You are a Romualdez and the president is an Aquino" will forever reverberate in the hearts and minds of the Filipino people.

Of course Sec. Roxas called a presscon to deny the state-ments of Mayor Romualdez, but the social networking sites only showed that YouTube dialogue between Sec. Roxas and Mayor Romualdez a few days after the typhoon struck, where Sec. Roxas wanted the mayor to sign a document to turn over political power of Tacloban City to the DILG Secretary. Seeing that Mayor Romualdez refused, Sec. Roxas said: "If you refuse, then bahala kana sa buhay nyo!"

What the Filipino people saw with the officials of the Aquino Regime is not just their incompetence and their being drunk with too much politics; it also revealed how arrogant they have become. As I said earlier when PNoy said in Tokyo addressing his critics, "Bahala na si Lord sa inyo, Busy ako!" And when Sec. Mar Roxas replied to Mayor Romualdez, "If you refuse, then bahala kana sa buhay nyo" these are words of sheer contempt and arrogance from the very people who call the Filipino people as "The Boss". In my book, such kind of arrogance has no place for those people who are elected to serve the Filipino nation. If they continue in this path, it won't be long before the Filipino people will march into the streets in protest against them.

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