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DON’T blame President Gloria M. Arroyo.
As long as the discussion is confined to
politics in purely materialistic, social science terms, stop blaming
President Arroyo for the sudden disappearance of the political
balance of power among the three branches of government.
She and her allies—including those honorable
justices of the Supreme Court who voted to exalt her and Secretary
Romulo Neri’s executive privilege at the expense of the Senate’s
right to conduct an investigation of a government deal tainted with
bribery and overpricing attempts—have only been taking advantage
of rules, laws and Constitutional provisions that give the
Philippine presidency huge powers over the other two branches of
government and the entire width and breadth of the executive
department.
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