HOODWINK

The opposition had done the impossible. They have managed to hoodwink the admin senators to align with the opposition in electing Sen. Villar as Senate President and Sen Pimentel also of the opposition as Minority Floor Leader. Now they have complete control of the Senate with Francis Pangilinan as Majority Floor Leader.

HUMAN SECURITY ACT

I dont know why they still want the Anti-terrorism Law repealed. The various amendments inserted by Senators Nene Pimentel and Jamby (the turtle) Madrigal had already made the law toothless and a joke to the terrorist. Considering that the law will be suspended before & after every elections is the first in the world and will easily qualify in the Guiness Book of Record and the penalty for wrong arrest at Php 500,000.00 per day of confinement will surely deter not the terrorist but the police and the other law enforcement agencies from applying the law. The law exist only for propaganda purposes of labelling the NPA and the Abu Sayyaf as terrorist organization which was already done by the USA and the EU.

A WELL LAID TRAP

Senator Villar runs as an opposition and should be the Senate President with the votes of the opposition. If he can't beat Senator Pimentel, then he should be happy to sit as an ordinary member of the majority and let the administration senators occupy the minority position. He's tricky and treacherous and so ambitious of becoming the next prez that he will do anything to get the senate presidency, using it as the platform to launch his presidential campaign in 2010. The admin should not fall into the trap of seeing a senate majority and minority in the oppositions hand.