every Trapo's spiked bed

Only the naive believe that the overthrow of JDV was motivated by altruistic or nationalistic reasons. There was hardly any pretense that this was being maneuvered for the sake of national interest.

all this fig leaves meant to disguise the naked greed of the congressmen, all the orations about "reform" and "change" were shibboleths, words long stripped of their real meaning, concepts long ago discarded as outmoded by the House. they were excuses which time and again the congressmen who rose to register their votes revealed as secondary. To what? their projects, their pork. of course, if they wont supersede what the arroyo admin wants, they can make it really hard for you - AND YOUR PORK BARREL!

its a cautionary tale about power. But De Venecia's fall is not the cause for public revulsion at what transpired in the House. Instead, its the sight of old and young leaders united by avarice and blinded by ambition. The baptism into congressional politics received by the 84 neophytes at the House makes it truly deserving of what was said by Arsenio Lacson of Ernseto Maceda, who ironically sat as witness to the Monday night rub out: "SO YOUNG, AND YET SO....." ALL OF THEM.

It was a sign that what the House has because will persist: a lapdog institution, with no sense of independence or integrity, heedless of its constitutional prerogatives. And of a unicameral pseudo-parliamentary system to come, ruled by ruthless First Family of political buccaneers. No one can have any illusions, at this point, that their appetite, always unbounded, is now out of control.

These are "TRAPO'S;" through and through, the word "trapo" or rag nowhere being more appropriate. Rag are the repository of dirt whose ultimate destination is the garbage dump, or should be. We've excoriated entertainers for polluting politics with their breath. Well, "trapos" are worse, far far worse. Entertainers stop being entertainers when they are elected into office. Traditional politicians stop being traditional when they are elected into office, only in the sense that they blaze new paths in crookedness, murderousness and ripping off the public. PRAY, HOW DOES PROSPERO NOGRALES REPRESENT AN IMPROVEMENT IN OUR LIVES IN PLACE OF DE VENECIA??

For us, public, they don't really care what we think, we are just viewers of their catastrophic actions. Jun Lozada was right, Pilipino does not simply constitute one family, it means one nation. And sometimes, its worth taking a risk for, for this country.

The trapo's trapo has fallen from his perch, but is there reason to hope that a statesman has been born in his place? Looking at Nograles, i say THERE'S NO HOPE.

They are the ones making spike at their beds, when will the people make them lie in it?