Re: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080331-127382/Cabinet-to-skip-Senate-inquiries

On Mar 30, 10:37 pm, Socratibo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 30, 6:17�pm, Dirty Sick Pig <drtysicpig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

just the crab wrote:
my op � is that gloring has managed to subvert the sc with her
political appointees. now who knows where the sc will go. even the
chif justice has his apprehensions. maybe it is about time to make the
sc less political and more �civl service �oriented in choosing by its
peers.

You rejoice when the Supremes censure PGMA and when they toss out her
pet cases; but you call them names when things don't go with your "op."
� When are you going to open your mind?

she has been busy  replacing  justices with her  political  stooges
these past  few years.  therefore  it might be a good idea to just
promote  sc justices  using  non political means  to  make it more
proffesional .

thats ex general ermita

MANILA, Philippines -- Senate Minority Floor Leader Aquilino Pimentel
Jr. has called for the replacement of Executive Secretary Eduardo
Ermita with the new bar topnotcher for his alleged “double talk” over
the implications of the Supreme Court ruling on executive privilege
last week.

“[It's] time to change Ermita for engaging in double talk. Earlier he
said OK. [I] can hardly fully blame him because as he says he's not a
lawyer. Anyway I propose Ona for executive secretary,” he said Monday
in a text message to INQUIRER.net, referring to Mercedita Ona, the
Ateneo law graduate who topped the most recent bar examination.

Opposition Senator Panfilo Lacson also lambasted Ermita for his
statement that Cabinet members were no longer required to attend
Senate inquiries since upper House rules were invalid because they had
not been published.

“Malacañang is now interpreting executive privilege as the privilege
of the chief executive to steal [the] people's money, [and] then cover
the truth behind the crime. Executive Secretary Ermita's tepid
arrogance in saying that Cabinet members won't be allowed to attend
Senate hearings is the sad consequence of the Court's expanded meaning
of executive privilege,” Pimentel said.

At the same time, Lacson maintained that the Senate, as a continuing
body, did not need to publish its rules every year. “This has been
resolved by the Court in past oral arguments involving similar issues
raised against the Senate,” he said.

Ermita’s statement came a week after the high tribunal ruled in favor
of former socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri who sought the
high court’s opinion on his right to invoke executive privilege
against the ongoing Senate investigation into the controversial
national broadband network project.

The court also ruled that Neri could not be arrested for refusing to
answer some of the senators’ questions on the $329 million
telecommunications transaction, particularly on his conversation with
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on the agreement that had been
forged with China’s ZTE Corp.

Neri was implicated after key witnesses in the Senate inquiry named
him as a participant in the project.
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