Arroyo defensive after impeachment

[dArKeR]

Speaking hours after opposition legislators filed an impeachment complaint against her in the latest move to force her out, scandal-plagued President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday urged Congress to change the constitution to shift to a parliamentary form of government to ease the Philippines' constant political instability.
"The system clearly needs fundamental change -- and the sooner, the better," Arroyo, the subject of an impeachment complaint filed earlier in the day, said in her annual state of the nation address to a joint session of Congress.

A parliamentary system -- where lawmakers can vote out a sitting government -- would ease the upheaval that accompanies ousting a leader who has lost the ability to govern.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/07/26/2003265077



These opposition/moral legislators LIVE in the PHILIPPINES! Do you know what that means? They live in a place where there is no law, no justice, NO PROTECTION from cronies, mafias... hired by Arroyo or Bush/Cheney. Their lives, their childrens, their spouses, their businesses... all in danger/threatened to be exterminated. But yet they have enough MORALITY to DO THE RIGHT THING!

It brings me back to my own country where our Democratic leaders and nothing but a bunch of SUCKING COWARD PUSSYS!

[redqueen]

1. I recommended this more for your commentary

than the substance of the article.

:applause:

[phusion]

2. 2007 - In other news

July 26, 2007. Washington D.C.

"Speaking hours after U.S. legislators filed an impeachment complaint against him in the latest move to force him out, scandal-plagued President George W. Bush yesterday urged Congress to change the constitution to shift to a totalitarian form of government to ease the country's constant political instability.

"The system clearly needs fundamental change -- and the sooner, the better," Bush, the subject of an impeachment complaint filed earlier in the day, said in his annual state of the union address to a joint session of Congress."

[merwin]

3. I wish we could vote out a sitting government

"You are the weakest link. Goodbye!"

[dArKeR]

4. No end in sight to Arroyo crisis

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's proposal for reform of the political system ran into opposition yesterday, delaying for perhaps months a solution to the crisis over an impeachment case against her.
A day after Arroyo called for a "great debate" on overhauling the dysfunctional political system, doubts were surfacing about whether the move was genuine or a diversionary tactic amid her worst political crisis.

Arroyo's allies and opponents alike were quick to pour cold water on the long-debated change to a parliamentary system from the US-style presidential system that many say has failed the country but benefits many politicians handsomely.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/27/2003265237