President Noynoy said that in his first three weeks of serving the Filipino people he was able to unearth anomalies committed during the previous administration. To mention a few:
The first six months of the current year, Arroyo’s administration spent more than what it has collected in terms of revenue resulting to an increased deficit to P196.7B. Of the targeted revenue collection, the shortage was P23.8 B. The expenditure exceeded by P45.1B.
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Please find following my eyewitness account of a town hall meeting last summer. The frustration I witnessed there is part and parcel of the Tea Party Movement. Here are my commonsense conservative views on the people called Tea Partiers.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have been active in conservative politics in Tennessee pretty heavily for the last 10 years. While I saw some familiar faces in the crowd, most of them were either new faces or people I had seen around town but never at a political event, much less a protest. Contrary to what you may have heard, many of them were Democrats, and most of them were older -say 40 and above. These are people who had never really called a congressman before. As they became more and more concerned about the issues I mention here, they called their congressman. Many for the first time. They were shocked at the reception they received. They really thought they would get to speak with the congressman. They really thought they would get an answer. Of course, they got the totally normal double speak and evasion. They called people they knew vaguely locally, like a mayor or county executive. They called their neighbors and urged them to call the congressman. They checked back with them and found out all these people received the same run around they got.
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Republicans are basking in the victory of Scott Brown in a heavily Democratic state. The red dogs are barking loudly at the blue dogs. Democrats on the Hill are already recanting on some of the policies they just last week backed fervently. All in an attempt to woo voters back to them and keep their jobs. Nothing much has really changed. Politicians trying to morph into the candidate they believe their constituents want them to be.
Scott Brown’s successful campaign was no different than those before his. Brown seized on the anger and fury of the voters in his state, much like Obama did just a little over a year ago. This is typical American politics. When one party seizes the swing of favoritism of voters, the other party simply sits back and waits until the party in charge screws up. Once the party in charge does screw up, the other party pounces on the hot issues and proclaim they possess the change that is needed. The problem with this philosophy is that the “change” is always short lived. Once the other party comes back into control it is back to business as usual. And thus the never ending cycle of swing politics continues.
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