For those born before WiFi and smart phones, I am not talking about the retro way of communicating during the 70s and 80s. It was the Jurassic time when you practically had to beg your inconsiderate partyline, usually your annoying neighbor, to put the phone down so you could be able to call and talk to somebody, for ten minutes, after three hours of waiting for your phone-line-hogging partyline.

I am talking about the recent statement of House Majority Leader and LP stalwart Rep. Neptali Gonzales II that 26 of his partymates are up for possible disciplinary actions. Their atraso? Saying NO to the RH Bill.

Just Last Friday, their party standard bearer, President Aquino, certified the bill as urgent after the House of Representatives approved it on second reading with a tally 113 to 104. Gonzales reiterated that the LP has made its stand clear, and their 92 members in the Lower House should read the message as crystal in their minds come third reading this Monday.

Now, with the recent imprimatur of the President, the controversial bill, which the CBCP Pastoral letter recently called as a gift-wrap packahe of greater crimes against women, has been passed in the Senate.

Now, let me ask Representative Boyet Gonzales a question, since when has voting according to the dictates of your conscience become a serious violation in a political party? The 26 LP members made their choice, whether their NO vote was conscience-stirred or because of the threat, prediction or promise of the Catholic Church of political damnation this election time, we will never know.

What is certain right now is that the 26 No voters to the RH Bill may now be the LP’s WPs—Walang Pakisama.

Our population in 2011 is as big as the recent 6-55 Lotto Jackpot, going north of 95 million. Our unemployment rate is still pegged at 7 percent. Five months before the May elections, as one line goes, what this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Just the same, the pro RH people got what they wanted. The bill made it through Congress and the other day 13 senators against 8 of their colleagues said yes to the reproductive health bill.

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