THE exchange of insults between Malacañang and UNA can only intensify after Vice President Jejomar C. Binay’s “take-no-prisoners” speech in Indang, Cavite on Monday. Beyond scoffing at Binay for belatedly attacking what he had uncritically supported as Aquino’s Cabinet member for five years, Malacañang will now move for his ouster, some Palace insiders have revealed. They will press the presidential electoral tribunal to resolve the five-year-old electoral protest against Binay in favor of Mar Roxas, whom President B. S. Aquino 3rd has just anointed as LP standard bearer. Binay had challenged Roxas to withdraw the protest after his anointment; the exact opposite is what could happen.

More sparks will likely fly from the Binay camp if and when Roxas forms his presidential ticket and announces PNoy’s polyamorous sister Kris Aquino as his running mate, and the boxing champion Manny Pacquiao as a senatorial candidate. These two items now seem to shake the political rumor mill and turn some heads.

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