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Friday, August 18, 2006
Seares: ‘Dead on arrival’
By Pachico A. Seares
News Sense
The most memorable sound bite in Wednesday's House justice committee debate on President Glo's impeachment didn't come from the opposition.
An administration man, Rep. Edcel Lagman of Albay, said it: "We did not kill the impeachment complaint. It was dead on arrival."
Odd, because opposition is the underdog. Tyrannized by numbers, it has suffered the kind of anguish that routinely inspires great thoughts.
Lagman's DOA spin was not exactly great thought. But it was apt, summing up the human condition when hope is as lifeless as cadaver rushed to an ICU.
Not to give up
Technically, the impeachment complaint is not yet dead. The blow dealt on it by the committee still has to be confirmed by a House plenary.
Oh all right, drop the pretense. It is dead.
Not unlike a victim of vigilante execution: shot in the head, taken to the hospital, shot again in the head to make sure, then taken to the morgue to be officially declared dead, maybe with a stake driven into its heart.
Won't work
The opposition need not give up the fight though. Keep the battle but abandon impeachment.
Impeachment won't work, at least not in the way it ousted then president Erap Estrada.
Not now when the opposition does not have the force---and the likes of Edcel Lagman who can say that their rivals' cause is dead and with a straight face intone: Look, no blood in our hands.
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