Showing posts with label SAPP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SAPP. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Parti Kelentong Rakyat?

Sebagai seorang yang sudah lama memerhati tikam-tepis politik, saya cukup faham niat PKR apabila pemimpin-pemimpinnya kadang-kala melakukan perkara yang kurang munasabah. Memang kalau hendak merebut kuasa, kadang-kadang kenalah buat benda yang kurang masuk akal, asalkan popular. Tambah pula kalau parti politik yang terlibat mengamalkan prinsip 'matlamat menghalalkan cara' seperti PKR.

Malang bagi PKR, ada tindak-tanduk kepimpinannya, termasuklah kepimpinannya yang tidak rasmi, yang tahap tidak munasabahnya sudah semakin sah kelentong.

Contoh yang paling dramatik adalah tindakan Raja Petra Kamaruddin (RPK) yang baru-baru ini membuat deklarasi statutori tentang kes Altantuya yang kurang munasabah. Mana lojiknya membuat deklarasi yang ada orang memberitahu beliau tentang sesuatu. Kalau macam itu, saya pun boleh buat deklarasi statutori yang DS Anwar Ibrahim sebenarnya agen Zionis dan melakukan pelbagai korupsi serta berlaku tidak bermoral ... !!

Kemudian, bila dibaca dengan teliti, dibilangnya Pak Lah tahu, KJ tahu, siap ada Sultan tahu tentang apa yang dia bilang! Tambah lagi, apa yang dia kata semua orang ini tahu? Bahawasanya isteri Timbalan Perdana Menteri kita yang lazimnya sibuk dengan majlis di hotel-hotel mahu pula meredah hutan (tempat tu dekat Meru, bukan di pekan beb!) semata-mata nak tengok 'penterjemah' Mongolia yang paling terkenal di dunia diletupkan dengan bom! Tak lojik! Kelentong!

La Jeffrey Kitingan pula mula buat kelentong. Dia mungkin iri hati sikit tengok RPK dan Anwar sahaja yang glamer. Di Sabah pula, sekarang Yong Teck Lee semakin hari kian menghero lebih dari dia. Maka si Jeffrey ni pun
tulislah surat kelentongnya sendiri. Saya sebenarnya tak boleh komen tentang hal minyak kerana kerja saya, maka memadai sajalah saya mengutarakan pendapat peribadi saya yang Jeffrey kelentong! Tak lojik, tak munasabah beb!

Parti PKR memang sudah banyak kali kantoi kelentong sebelum ini - ya lah, dengan U-Tube kenyataan Tun Dr M yang dipotong sesuka hati, gambar-gambar palsu Altantuya yang Tian Chua menjaja sangat dulu, lepas tu bila wakil rakyat PKR berbasikal 'simbolik' ke Parlimen pun, dekat-dekat je, lepas tu naik kereta balik! Tetapi kelentongnya yang terbaru semua terlalu hebat!

Ini belum campur kerja kelentong rasmi kerajaan pimpinan PKR di Selangor lagi! Saya tahu yang DS Anwar Ibrahim, seorang yang memimpin PKR walaupun bukan seorang ahli parti, memang pakar kelentong sana-sini, sampai ke peringkat antarabangsa sekalipun! Kalau tak hebat kelentong, macam mana lah Anwar boleh begitu dikawani kedua-duanya Arab dan Yahudi!

Tetapi pemimpin PKR yang lain harus sedar, mereka tidaklah sehebat Anwar dalam hal kelentong ni. Lagipun, mereka bukan sahaja ahli, tetapi pemimpin parti tersebut! Jadi, janganlah kuat kelentong sangat sebab nak mengebat dalam usaha merebut kuasa, membadawikan diri! Risikonya... Parti Kelentong Rakyat dikenalnya nanti!

Monday, June 23, 2008

RPK's SD, Khalid Ibrahim's PA, Pak Lah's Subsidy Cut... And The Return Of An Anti-Hero...

The country awakes to several unworthy tid-bits of news today, including Raja Petra's on-going publicity-mongering on the country's first ever 'Statutory Declaration' based on hearsay and rumour, news of the suspension of Khalid Ibrahim's scapegoat for his first scandal as an MB and Pak Lah's successful blocking of the no-confidence vote against him.

Of these 3 bits of news, certainly the most pathetic is the one where Pak Lah and co engineered this nonsense parliamentary debate and vote on the recent fuel subsidy cuts. Past cuts, whilst debated, have not required a vote by parliament as it is unnecessary and somewhat spurious, as of course, all the MPs voted along party lines! Not at all a good proxy for the MPs' 'confidence' in Pak Lah.

And all this just so the MP's would be distracted from SAPP's effort to bring a vote of no confidence against Pak Lah. Interestingly, the DAP, fearing the no confidence vote would reveal their hypocritical support of Pak Lah, had also prepared a motion on RPK's SD to distract parliament. It should concern us more that the SAPP MP's now appear to fear for the safety of their loved ones!

However, of greater interest to UMNO stalwarts is the return of an anti-KJ hero to active party politics. Tan Sri Isa Samad, suspended former senior VP of UMNO who won the highest vote in the last UMNO elections on an 4B and anti-Khairy platform, ended his period of membership suspension yesterday. He made a low-key statement confirming this yesterday.

Had he not been suspended on trumped-up charges of money politics engineered by KJ, Isa would have been the likeliest candidate for DPM now, as he had been consistently critical of KJ, if not Pak Lah, even when he was in the Lah cabinet. Datuk Seri Najib had attempted to bring Isa back earlier, but such was KJ's fear of Isa, these efforts were vigorously opposed, with some success.

The return of Tan Sri Isa Samad, the 'Anti'-Hero; as far UMNO politics and the future of the country's leadership is concerned, that's news!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

SAPP And The Week's First Can Of Worms... Some Observations

SAPP will likely try to open the first significant can of worms of the week. This is of course the highly expected vote of no confidence in Pak Lah as PM.

There's been much said by Pak Lah's supporters, both sincere and appointed, of SAPP's move to oppose Pak Lah whilst remaining in BN as hypocritical. Actually, it isn't. Perhaps many of Pak Lah's supporters are so unfamiliar with how a parliamentary democracy works; there have been many leaders of other democracies that have been removed by their legislative allies before, only to be replaced by another ally. It should actually be easier than a 'lompat pagar' act!

This effort should nicely open a whole lot of can of worms though, such as:
  1. Will the speaker allow the vote to proceed? If not, this may be yet another confirmation of Pak Lah's weakness that he dare not allow 'his' BN MPs to demostrate their confidence in him... or otherwise...
  2. If called, a vote will test the sincerity of the opposition. My suspicion is that Pak Lah will win as the opposition is split on this issue. PAS wants to see Pak Lah go for the sake of Islam, Malays and the nation. PKR wants Pak Lah to go as it would like to see Anwar or his wife as PM. DAP however would prefer for Pak Lah to stay! Note how they are defending Pak Lah against Tun Dr M? DAP would let the country suffer so they can win bigger in 2013!
  3. The vote will also ultimately test the resolve of many on the BN bench who are sick of Pak Lah. Interestingly, even Pak Lah's BN opponents may be split. KuLi has already declared he will vote for Pak Lah thinking he can beat Pak Lah in UMNO elections come December.
  4. It would also be interesting to see how Pak Lah then manages the aftermath. He may now threaten BN MPs to ensure all vote for him, but even if some don't and if he survives, Pak Lah can't punish these 'traitors' to him anyway as he needs every MP he can get to stay on the BN side! Sack SAPP from BN? Rubbish!

Enough worms from one act for the week perhaps? More coming...

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