NAKAKALOKA!

"Aquino in no hurry to sign RH Bill" -- news!  That, after certifying the bill as "urgent" in the dying days of this year's legislative agenda, and after sending his top Cabinet Secretaries to the House to ensure passage of the Bill -- in turn, probably the first such happenstance in this country's political history.  Alas, the badings would say: "Nakakaloka!"

Truth is there are a number of nakakaloka things in our midst and times.  For example, some 32 congressmen voted No! during the second reading of the RH bill in the Lower House, only to be be absent and not to be counted in the third reading.  In the same breath, one congressmen had been previously quoted in the news as saying "I would rather die than vote for the RH Bill."  Of course he fulfilled that promise:: he abstained from voting in the third and final reading.

In an unrelated subject matter, President Aquino during presidential inauguration also promised  there was not going to be any new tax measures in his regime. He has just signed the highly controversial Sin Tax Law.  After doing so, he said many Filipinos would be liberated from the vices of smoking and drinking -- well, except the President himself and several of his Cabinet ministers and close friends who are well known to be chain smokers and heavy drinkers. .

Probably the most "nakakaloka" of them all would be if -- repeat, would be if --the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines had failed to make good a threat voiced out sometime in September 2010 to call a civil disobedience as soon as the RH Bill finally became a law.  Or to not excommunicate PNoy.