Gloria's constitutional crisis

President Arroyo is in deep doo doo...
Remember I blogged that telephone conversations on CD's were being sold by street vendors? The taped conversations were about stealing elections...

So taking a clue from her fellow classmate at Georgetown, she has "apologized"...

In the meanwhile her relatives have been getting bribes. Last week, she said her husband was going abroad until things cleared up...today the papers say he'll be back next week, it was a vacation. And she is reshuffling her cabinet...musical chairs of the same politicians ....

Some mild demonstrations, and the country is split on whether or not she should resign.
Corie and the bishops say: Pray...
Well, that would help.

However, what helps the most is the knowledge that the guy who would replace her is just as crooked as she is.
In the Philippines, it's like Chicago politics....you pick the best crook for the job.

Gloria got in by throwing out the last president, the film actor (nickname Erap) for takng too many bribes.
Erap was hugely popular with the non elite, who didn't care if he took some bribes, because they knew all politicians stole...and at least he knew people outside of the Manila power structure...

She was vice president, and swore when they impeached Erap that she wouldn't run for president, but of course she did...

And now she is being shown to be just as corrupt as Erap...or at least her husband.

Too bad. Her father and grandparents had poor people in mind, but she was brought up as a debutant who went to the US elite colleges, including Georgetown...so her knowledge of poverty is limited to her BA in economics.