King con.

(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Byline: Conrado R. Banal III

JUST BETWEEN US GIRLS, SOMEBODY personally close to Gloriaetta told me that, definitely, she would have to get back at those who caused her some king-size political headache.

That was the time-well, the HEIGHT-of the "Hello Garci" tape scandal, that major pain in the political neck of this cute vengeful administration a few months ago.

Over cheap Japanese food in Quezon City, my source (who brought along an assistant) talked about the strategy of this cute administration to prevent its downfall.

I could believe our source even then. For one, the source had a reputation in political circles as one of the leading men in Gloriaetta's crisis management team.

Today, not just a few in big business say that, for this cute administration of Gloriaetta, it is definitely payback time.

Well, such a thinking even showed in the stock market, as prices the past couple of days went somewhere down there in the vicinity of the South Pole.

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