Joker, the quintessential lawmaker

HAS anybody read a Palace statement on the death of the much admired former Sen. Joker Arroyo? There was a report of President BS Aquino The Last’s going to Mindanao to attend the wake of policeman who had served as his security, but about Joker?

I may be wrong. A Malacañang statement could have been buried somewhere, but nobody should be surprised if BS Aquino considers Joker’s demise a non-event, not after Joker had made mincemeat of his legal pretensions in a plenary debate more than six years ago. For Joker’s “effrontery,” BS Aquino stopped talking to him although Joker had been a family friend for more than 40 years. Oh well, what else should we expect of an onion-skinned leader so full of himself?