As the 2007 electoral campaign drags on slowly, the more Joker Arroyo shows what a joke he has become since the martial law days.

His political career from 2000 onwards has shown a path towards an inconsistency that is hard to understand. In 2001, his campaign ad showed his opening speech at the aborted Estrada impeachment trial, when he said that “we cannot have a country run by a thief.” This year, his ad states that he had defended the Constitution, the Senate, and the Bill of Rights.

So far so good. But he is now under the administration ticket, the administration being headed by someone that tried to bamboozle the Senate’s right to conduct investigations (EO 464) and the right of the people to assemble (CPR, PP 1017). In short, he allied himself with the very same person that he had opposed several times. He allied himself with someone that had tried to cost him his job.

Then he said that Gloria Arroyo is still the best defender of the Constitution. How many times did the Supreme Court declared several administration policies as unconstitutional?

Pag bad ka, lagot ka? Tell that to the Philippine Marines!

DJB has a very strong indictment of Joker Arroyo here and here.

(Absurd – inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense.)

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This is the first in the (projected) series on the 2007 senatorial candidates.