Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Editorial: Self-centered and selfish move
IS impeachment so sweet and political discord so dear that some sectors have to sacrifice our republic’s economic peace and national survival?
It does seem cruel and masochistic for a group to file once again an impeachment complaint against President Arroyo amid one of the worst financial crisis that has ever swept through the globe.
While impeaching a President who “may truly be impeachable” is a democratic right of the governed, still there is need for timing.
The economic backdrop of the fourth impeachment complaint is hardly conducive to a supportive public opinion.
The nation’s economy, while showing a measure of resiliency to the ongoing global economic downturn, is hardly the sort that allows anything to divert attention and focus of our leaders and our people from the dilemma at hand.
Wrong time
Indeed, while impeaching Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is at the moment a generally desired goal, doing it at this time could only make matters worse.
Members of the House, who enjoy presidential goodwill, think “the latest complaint is a ‘selfish’ move.”
This is because the impeachment complaint was filed at this time when the nation’s economic stability is imperiled not due to Arroyo’s mismanagement but due to a global financial crisis that is also not of an Asian country’s making.
This is on top of the fact that the 2010 Philippine presidential elections is not very far away.
Need to reconsider
It is an ill-timed move by any group or person who wants her out of the Palace.
To undermine our nation’s political fortunes at this time is to put at stake the general well-being of our impoverished many, making them suffer, and compromise their material survival.
If this national circumstance be so, then let those who want to rock the political peace of the nation, and draw the attention of Congress away from the imperatives of our current economic condition, to please reconsider their stand.
There can only be one phrase to describe the group who would not consider the implication of their move against Ms. Arroyo at the moment: self-centered and selfish.
