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Joker blames minority for delay in GMA impeachment.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Michael Lim Ubac
THE "INDOLENCE" of the minority in the Lower House has delayed impeachment proceedings, according to Sen. Joker Arroyo.
"You have to argue from a position of strength. If you don't have the 79 signatures and only promise to produce them later, you're arguing from a weak position," Joker said in a phone interview yesterday.
Apparently expressing the Senate's impatience over the continued failure of the minority to convince a third of the House to endorse the impeachment complaint against President Macapagal-Arroyo, the senator bluntly told the opposition to observe the dictum, "more work, less talk."
"What the opposition should do now is wake up, buckle down to work, shed off their indolence, stop talking and get the magic 79 endorsements. That done, they can wave the 79 ...
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