Impeachment 2006: Born Dead

The current buzz nowadays is the second impeachment against Gloria Arroyo, and she is being bombarded by one complaint a day. Just to cover all bases, they say, since this House of Reprehensibles, er Representatives will surely resort to a technicality again. Knowing how creative Nograles and Lagman are, heck, they can even use the one-a-day complaints as a technicality to dismiss most – if not all – of the complaints outright.

And then Nograles began shooting is mouth off, ridiculing the impeachment complaints as wastes of time. Tell Nograles that if and when the complaint goes to the Committee on Justice, he should inhibit himself, since he has already made a judgment on the complaint. But being a congressman, that’s wishing for the moon.

I think this year’s impeachment will not prosper, again. We have the same cast of characters, and their intentions and loyalties are clear. So expect a repeat of last year. Unless there will be a concentrated effort to convince the lethargic citizenry to convince their rapacious congressmen to at least hear it out, the impeachment is dead even before it is born.

If that happens, those for Arroyo’s impeachment should campaign for an impeachment Congress. Make sure that those who will participate in the murder of the spirit of law (the rule of law is long dead, way back 2001) pay for their stubbornness. That’s the only way to do it.

So I end my speculation about impeachment. The next weeks will be again buzzing with political punditry. The apathetic ones will once again roll their eyes, and call anti-Arroyo as destabilizers. Straight from the Arroyo playbook.