WHEN President George W. Bush came to the Philippines on a state visit some years ago, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was on Cloud 9. She probably could not believe that the most unpopular person in the world was being entertained by the most unpopular person in our country.
JAMES Madison, the principal drafter of the US Constitution, said that he did not pay much attention to the Executive Department, preferring instead to concentrate on the Legislative Department as the major agency of the government they were organizing in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
WITH the retirement of another justice of the Supreme Court next month, there is even now a scramble for the vacancy to be filled by the President from a list of nominees to be submitted by the Judicial and Bar Council.
THERE is now a suspect movement to impeach Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno for his refusal to promulgate a decision against a sitting member of the House of Representatives on the ground of non-citizenship.
DELAY is one of the worst defects of our government and is the principal reason why our society has not progressed much since our liberation from martial law.
I SHALL begin this column with cordial greetings for a Happy New Year with fresh hopes for a better future for our country. I pray it will be released at last from the corruption and machinations of false leaders who have reduced us to the bottom of the list of respectable Asian nations.
CONGRESS passed the other week a joint resolution extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) for another six months but excluding the compulsory acquisition of agricultural lands provided for under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) signed by President Corazon Aquino on June 10, 1988.
