Pursuing the ‘tulirong daan’

WHAT kind of president is this that he could give honor to a deceased policeman who served as his security for a few years but couldn’t even say any good word on the death of a patriot like the late Sen. Joker Arroyo who had been unquestionably a friend of the Aquinos for more than 40 years?

Now, is the President trying to fill the void in the Senate left by Joker by fielding the son of Sen. Lito Lapid as official senatorial candidate of the supposed “Tuwid na Daan” slate? Perhaps, the President wants the son to continue the “legacy” of Senator Lapid. After all, Senator Lapid has “authored” one law in the 11 years that he has been a legislator. I placed “authored” in quotation mark because Lapid’s supposed law is an exact replica of an archived bill of Senate President Franklin Drilon. What’s more, Senator Lapid never stood up on the floor to defend the bill that he now crows as “Lapid Law.” That duty fell on Sen. Chiz Escudero who was then chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice.