Who’ll believe any report by the Senate on its inquiry into the three lists where 11 incumbent senators are alleged to have received kickbacks from their pork barrel funds? The chamber has been tarred and feathered by the lists, and has lost all credibility. It can regain some of its lost luster only by concentrating on its primary job, lawmaking, and giving up the inquiry into the pork issue.

The Senate blue-ribbon committee lost its sheen when it turned yellow under Sen. TG Guingona, who doesn’t believe that anomalies like those in the previous administration could happen under the “tuwid na daan” of President BS Aquino 3rd. It’s already a foregone conclusion that none of the close allies of BS Aquino will ever be recommended for prosecution by this administration’s faithful in the Senate.

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