Yellowidiot journalist Ana Marie Pamintuan is disappointed that the House of Representatives fucked up their public crucifixion of the Dutertes focusing on Vice President Sara Duterte’s use of her confidential funds thanks to the national budget mess they created.
The controversy has occupied the news cycle since the bicameral conference committee made public the enrolled budget bill, which also cast President Bongbong Marcos in a bad light because his “review” turned out to be largely for show and he didn’t have the balls to return it to Congress for revision.
Pamintuan writes in her PhilStar piece “Doable solutions” how “the impressive investigation” into the VP’s spend “went up in smoke”…
This was due to public indignation over the 2025 budget that turned out – after just a few session days at the hands of the bicameral conference – to be a barely concealed outlay meant to finance patronage and the election campaigns of Marcos 2.0’s super majority allies in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Overnight, the skewering of the Dutertes and their minions in the bloody war on drugs, the scandals over fake Pinoys and Alice Guo were eclipsed by indignation over the budgeting hocus-pocus that led to substantial cuts in funding this year for education, health, agriculture and the conditional cash transfer, among others.
He who is without sin should cast the first stone is now the operative principle and claims that the impeachment of the vice-president has public support is flimsy at best.
This also affects the re-electionists congressmen and senators who were privy to the bicam’s brazen heist of public funds for their own benefit. The 2025 surveys should reflect this unless Filipinos find it acceptable that they are being fried in their own fat before their very eyes.
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