BS Aquino the senator as unproductive as BS Aquino the president

Those who continue to believe that the Senate is the best training ground for the presidency should look at the case of former senator, now President, BS Aquino The Last. They’ll find out that this leader whom his followers want to call “The Best Philippine President Ever” had a forgettable three-year stint in the Senate.

Aquino was a congressman for three terms before he was elected to the Senate in 2007. He seemed to believe that the culture in the Senate was the same as that in the House. I sensed this before the 2007 Christmas break of Congress when he asked Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, sponsor of the bill creating the Civil Aeronautics Administration, to defer his sponsorship. Aquino’s reason? He was absent when Enrile started sponsoring the measure the day before and he hadn’t read the bill yet.