Well, what can I say? In recess was in recess.
Which is not to say I’ve not been a congressman while Congress was not in session. Here, in the Philippines, a congressman is expected to take on the schizophrenic roles of legislator and (I guess) local executive, who should be not only filing bills on behalf of his constituents, but actually paying their bills of an entirely different kind.
I mean, at least in Congress, a bill goes through three readings. Outside of it, a congressman is expected to approve, say, a hospital bill, without first reading it.
But who’s complaining? When we claim to speak for a constituency, we try to take care of its needs. I’d rather be saddled with all these requests than claim to speak for a constituency for which I haven’t done anything. I am a member of Congress, after all. Not the Black and White Movement.
Does that make me a traditional politician? If the opposite of traditional is Leah Navarro or Enteng Romano — who claim to speak for people whose calloused hands they haven’t touched — then I certainly hope so. To them I say — moderate your creed. . . with a little action.
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WillyJ // February 27, 2008 at 2:54 am |
Good to hear from you again sir.
Ms. Navarro now says the CBCP has chosen to be “irrelevant”. She says further that the B&WM will seek out more “truth-seeking” and “dedicated… Catholic Church leaders who are more open and not members of the CBCP, and we will look to them for guidance,..”.
The hierarchy in the clergy will echo the CBCP stand, that is what Pastoral letters are for. It is quite impossible to seek for guidance when the mind is already set.
pablojohn // February 27, 2008 at 3:10 pm |
I know. What does Ms. Navarro need “moral guidance” for anyway when she had long been convinced even before Jun Lozada splurged on Louis Vuitton bags in Hong Kong? But at least she’s allowing that there’s not just black and white, there’s also “irrelevant”.