Dancing Oreta Strikes Again

[galileo]

The Dancing Oreta Strikes Again

Tessie Aquino-Oreta, the senator who made herself despicable in the eyes of the anti-Erap populace through her kind of shindig during the impeachment trial is making moves again. Not that she has stopped her irritating antics brought by her own personal political persuasion (although, admittedly she had ebbed a little in redeeming herself from her “pok-pok” image) but this time, her move to urge the President to call for a snap election is equally infuriating of her impeachment merrymaking. That’s a clear trait of a dirty trapo (a superfluous term for dirty politician?).

It is pure nonsense to announce such a call for snap election just because the President no longer enjoys the support and trust of the Trillanes faction or that an accusation of corruption is hurled at the First Gentleman. Her reason was that these destabilizing events are causing divisiveness in the country. What divisiveness was Oreta talking about when the opposition, of which she belongs, is being charged as a party to the machination to overthrow the government via the Oakwood mutiny? Isn’t it too preposterous to utter such a plea from an oppositionist herself?

What makes the call more laughable is that the Arroyo administration has barely nine months left before the national elections. Snap election in Philippine setting is not as snap as Senator Oreta might have thought it to be. Of course, it will count time for preparation and campaigning before the actual exercise takes place.

Can Senator Oreta assure us of a stable socio-economic milieu if the President accedes to her call for snap election? In all likelihood, calling for a snap election will just make matters worst for this too politicized country. One observer described the kind of our present opposition as destructive rather than a catalyst for fair governance. Indeed, we have become inured to their flows. And Senator Oreta’s call for a snap election is another parody of what this nation fought for some 17 years ago.

[xorexx]

Mauna ng magresign si Oreta,tutal wala naman siyang nagawa sa senado.

[sadirmata]

marami daw unconstitutional na ginagawa o gawain ang rehimeng arroyo. kaya dapat mag-resign o magtawag ng snap election. eh yung snap election mismo unconstitutional naman yan eh. di ba yan alam ni oreta?

[bjmanabat]

sana wala ng malokong mga botante si oreta. silang dalawa ni butz nanggaling sa respetadong angkan pero nagpakasira dahil nasilaw sa pera...........

[whyte]

as what they say, you cant teach old dogs new tricks and definitely Oreta is an OLD DOG!

[jpmontoya3]

she doesn't deserve to carry the name aquino sayang lang yung nangyari kay ninoy dahil binababoy niya yung pangalan i hope she gets to read this para matauhan siya...she shouldn't have been elected in the first place...multuhin sana siya ni ninoy!!!

[lech0n X]

Da B!tch is still around.

[husky150]

I saw Tessie Aquino-Oreta's grinning mug - along with the rest of her dubious cohorts - in this morning's paper and it just ruined my day. One reason why this country keeps going around in circles is that no one ever gets punished - no one in government anyway. Maybe the Romanians had something going when, instead of hauling Nikolai and Elena Ceacescu to court, they just shot them on TV instead.

I wonder how long before Miriam Defensor-Santiago starts popping out of the electric socket, as well.

[renz]

Originally posted by sadirmata
marami daw unconstitutional na ginagawa o gawain ang rehimeng arroyo. kaya dapat mag-resign o magtawag ng snap election. eh yung snap election mismo unconstitutional naman yan eh. di ba yan alam ni oreta?

parang constitutional ba ang edsa dos. state of rebellion na ilang beses na ginamit ni gloria to crackdown the opposition, constitutional ba? edsa dos supporters should stop using the constitution dahil you are the foremost violators.

snap election will not only bring legitimacy to whoever wins but also save our country from further sinking. what are you afraid of? backlash from the people you robbed of their rights?

[Rosanna]

Originally posted by renz
parang constitutional ba ang edsa dos. state of rebellion na ilang beses na ginamit ni gloria to crackdown the opposition, constitutional ba? edsa dos supporters should stop using the constitution dahil you are the foremost violators.

snap election will not only bring legitimacy to whoever wins but also save our country from further sinking. what are you afraid of? backlash from the people you robbed of their rights?

In a way, California's special election on Oct 7th is a snap election. We have 135 of our citizens, some naturalized, running for Governor.

[lech0n X]

who let the dogs (b!tch) out!!!woof...woof...woof

http://www.passthison.com/dogs/?exit=no

[Cerberus]

What a fool.

[tough_guy]

This lady has certainly lost her credibility to serve the people. By the way, being a benchwarmer in the Senate for the past six years, I supposed we have already learned our lesson. Her Senate stint not only tainted Ninoy's image of a true leader and brightest political mover of his and the present time, it has also showed her lack of common sense and commitment to serve the people who voted for her.

Below is a brilliant piece from the main editorial of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, today.


Snapped
http://www.inq7.net/opi/2003/sep/01/opi_editorial-1.htm

A WEEK after a grateful nation marked the 20th death anniversary of Benigno Aquino Jr., his youngest sister all but spit on his grave. Joining a funeral party of discredited politicians, Sen. Teresa Aquino-Oreta last Wednesday called on President Macapagal Arroyo to resign. Among her somber reasons: "things are already getting out of hand."

She then posed with the likes of martial law officials turned born-again democrats, such as Juan Ponce Enrile and Francisco Tatad, in a picture-perfect moment that was truly worth a thousand words. Sadly for the memory of Ninoy Aquino, the words were all from the wrong political dictionary. Oreta's staff called newspapers on Wednesday night to request that she be cropped out of the picture. Readers can judge for themselves who obliged her and who did not.

The very next day, Oreta picked up a shovel and started digging away at her revered brother's grave. She called for a snap election to replace Ms Macapagal.

"Marcos went through that. Why can't she?" Oreta said, blithely, with all the grace she displayed when she danced on the Senate floor the night she, Enrile, Tatad and other pro-Joseph Estrada senators voted to keep the second Jose Velarde envelope unopened.

Calling Ms Macapagal a "stumbling block" to progress, Oreta reasoned: "We have to take drastic steps to put [the country back on] track."

She did not say, or did not realize, that the drastic step she was referring to was both illegal and unconstitutional.

"It cannot be done," opposition leader Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said simply. Administration Sen. Joker Arroyo described Oreta's proposal as "very Marcosian." The reason the dictator Ferdinand Marcos could call for snap polls, he explained, was "because he could make the laws at that time."

"It's constitutionally impossible. Let's not talk about it," Arroyo said.

But talk about it we must, if only to point out that, by her statements last week, Oreta has disqualified herself from ever being taken seriously again.

She said the idea of a snap election was her own "view," but like a bad Estrada movie, her comeuppance is all too immediate and obvious. Last Thursday, Estrada's own People's Movement Against Poverty, through its president Ronald Lumbao, also called for a snap election.

Can this be mere coincidence?

It is a source of shame for some members of the Aquino family that Oreta today is more closely identified with Estrada than with her own martyred brother. Oreta is one of the "balato twins," who infamously received a P1-million gratuity from the mahjong-playing president. She accompanied Estrada on all his presidential trips, possibly something of a Senate record. She voted against the opening of the Velarde envelope and, with Estrada's original wife, is the deposed president's staunchest supporter in the upper chamber. In last week's funereal press briefing, she was in the elevated company of Estrada's politically active sons, JV Ejercito and Jinggoy Estrada.

Given this record, does Oreta really think the public would buy her I-thought-of-this-myself line? The dramatic but patently illegal suggestion has the exact shape and lack of weight of an Estrada idea.

Even opposition Sen. Panfilo Lacson, one of Estrada's post-plunder trial options, shot down Oreta's proposal --yet another indication that nine months before the next elections the political opposition is seriously riven.

Last Saturday, Oreta brought her trial balloon crashing down to earth. She found a face-saving excuse in Senate President Franklin Drilon's suggestion of a political summit. She said she welcomed it as a way to "help defuse the edgy political climate."

Mixed metaphors aside, Oreta would like us to believe that she has found religion in the idea of bipartisanship. Again, timing and her lack of respect for the people's capacity to think betray her. Drilon's proposal was aired the same day she called for a snap election.

The Aquino family has an important decision to make. Since 1967, an Aquino has served in the Senate. But Oreta is up for reelection next year. Will the legatees of Aquino's name choose equity of the incumbent over country?

Editorial
Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 1, 2003

[thehitman]

As if her dancing antics weren't stupid enough, she has to propose something so utterly ridiculous.

[whyte]

well, the country needs a sort "breather"of in times of crises and she lives up in providing them.

whats next
a tumbling routine

anyway, she did RETRACT that snap election in favour of POLIICAL SUMMIT, didn't she

[zzzodiac]

pokpok queen!

[unmee]

Oreta Ang Tanging Ina Mo.

Pautang Ama Mo Rin.

Pokpok Queen!!!

[Iron_Mask]

Originally posted by unmee
Oreta Ang Tanging Ina Mo.

Pautang Ama Mo Rin.

Pokpok Queen!!!

Ninoy Aquino is squirming in his grave. He wants to say Tessie is one Filipino who should have died before!

[Kaboom!]

I do remember that when she ran for senator, all her posters said vote for Tessie Aquino. She rode the Aquino name all the way to her current position. I do admire some of the senators since they seem to still have some semblance of wanting the best for the country but Oreta is definitely not one of them.

Just when you thought she was slowly slipping into the background, then she comes up with this snap elections stupidity. I think they're just so arrogant that they think nomatter how stupid and crazy they become, the Filipino people are still going to vote because reason doesn't come into play during elections. It's still the money.

Oh well, such is life here in the Philippines.

Peace.

[jpmontoya3]

dapat siya na lang yung inassasinate instead of ninoy kaya lang bata pa siya nung namatay brother niya but still dapat siya na lang talaga