SOME RATHER "STUPID" IDEAS

I regret I had been unable to activate my blog for more than a week.

Anyway, there were a couple of political developments in the news that intrigued keeps intriguing me endlessly.
Firstly, I consider it rather odd that P-Noy's lawmaker-allies are racing to give the President emergency powers to deal with the Mindanao power crisis even if he has practically admitted not knowing what to do to successfully address it.  As far as I know, any "emergency" power of the president must, nearly always,  suspend the implementation of certain laws or regulations, such as prior public bidding in the purchase of materials and/or awarding of contracts for services or projects.  After coming out of the Energy Summit conference in Mindanao -- Armando Doronila calls it a monologue because it was P-Noy's thoughts that overwhelmed the meeting, more than those of the stakeholders -- the President said the Mindanaons must learn to bite the bullet by paying exceptionally high bills for their electricity consumption.  That was of course too elementary a solution that any child in the street knows any way.  Of course the President assures the nation that his successor would inherit from him a stable power supply in  Mindanao after all of the long-term solutions the administration has  lined up shall have been implemented.  Why then is Sen. Trillanes still filing a bill to give the President "emergency" power in that regard?  And worse, why must Sen. Chiz Escudero still insist on granting the President "stand-by emergency powers" to do something that the President does not really know what, in the first place.  Methinks, both senators should have applied plain common sense in this respect.

On the other hand, that the Philippine Medical Association is poised to file a P1-billion class suit against Mar Roxas and the DOTC for the latter's failure to implement the Clean Air Act with respect to motor vehicles may be  good news.  As a matter of fact, such class suit is specifically authorized under Rule 52 of this law.  But only on the surface.  The problem is, will the sheer filing of the class suit really improve the kind of air we breath in our thoroughfares. I mean, I seriously doubt that the court could immediately order the closure of the inept ignition emission testing centers scattered over the archipelago -- such, I think,  is what the class suit asks -- without due process.  At any rate, let the public wait and see.