The harsh exchanges between Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Senator Antonio Trillanes IV showcased to the public the good, the bad and the ugly, not only of the person, but what politics is all about.
What started to be a privilege speech by Trillanes on personal and political issues careened into an embarrassing subject that should have been better keep under wraps than being exposed for the international audience to see the recklessness and folly of our politicians when it comes to matters deserving of utmost confidentiality.
The clash between the two senators of the realm was not a classic battle of the titans, but rather, it was more a war of words between the impulsiveness of youth and the cautiousness of the overly matured; between a neophyte legislator and a veteran parliamentarian; between an amateur politician and a professional one, many times over; between the ambitious and the fulfilled.
At the end Trillanes, the inexperienced, stormed out of the session hall rattled up, after calling the Senate President a bully, while Enrile, the grizzled one, stayed behind, calling at the fading sight of Trillanes a coward.
But, that is going ahead of the story.
The national issue raised by Trillanes that made him call Enrile “a lackey of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA)” is not something new that we haven’t heard before. Trillanes, however, perceives that Enrile is pushing for approval of the controversial bill seeking to divide Camarines Sur province in time for the 2013 elections upon instigation of GMA.
Least we forget, anything that has got to do with GMA and family is anathema to Trillanes. After all, she was the reason for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny and the 2007 standoff at the Manila Peninsula hotel in Makati City, where he called for GMA’s ouster. Whether you call all these patriotism or intrepidity, the fact is that he had to spend seven and a half years for it in jail.
No doubt the Oakwood incident has clearly defined who Trillanes is as a soldier and as a person. His lack of respect for authority and the learned, bordering on defiance and superiority, has been very glaring and despising.
Sad to say that this soldier turned politician haven’t learned to shade off these unfavorable traits and to this day continue to exhibit and flaunt it anywhere he goes. It even looks like that his narcissistic demeanor has gotten worst now that he is a senator of the realm.
For what better proof is there than when Trillanes himself confirmed that it was him who was behind the ouster move against Enrile, when speculations were rife that somebody wanted the latter to be unseated?
And so, while Trillanes was curtly disparaging at Enrile in his privilege speech, the latter had also prepared a bombshell that he wanted to drop on Trillanes face. And without much ado, he started questioning Trillanes about his role in the territorial dispute the country has with China.
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