The issue is government effectiveness

Sen. Serge Osmeña has done the nation a world of good in calling attention to the under-performance and awful management of President Aquino and his Cabinet after nearly four years in office. Coming from an Aquino ally and key campaign leader in 2010, that’s a thunderbolt that could electrocute, or at least wake up everyone.

The public should get to the heart of the criticism and the issue. There’s a danger that some will dismiss the problem as just semantics; other observers and critics have indicted the administration more harshly as incompetent and clueless, barely a notch above a student council government.