It's a marathon, not a sprint

Nobody said this was going to be easy. This is not going to be a cakewalk ala Edsa Dos.

From the Malaya Editorial.

This is why Arroyo’s allies in the House are keeping the option of strangling the impeachment complaint at the House committee on justice. "Creeping" impeachment has been successfully blocked. There will be no automatic transmittal to the Senate even if the magic number of 79 endorsers is reached.

The committee on justice has 60 session days to come out with determination on the sufficiency of form and content of the complaint. That gives the committee time to dribble the ball possibly well into December.

After that, the findings go to the plenary. Whatever the findings, a vote by 79 members of the House is still needed to send the complaint to the Senate for trial. And if Gloria could steal an election wholesale, she could buy House members retail.

The Palace game plan is obviously to stretch out the proceedings in the expectation that the public will in time weary of the whole thing. If her allies can pull this off, Gloria would be in the clear all the way to 2010.

It’s not a bad game plan. But it’s based on the assumption that Gloria can continue fooling all the people all the time, an assumption difficult to make given the widespread perception she is the queen of lies and deceit.

Obviously, gusto nilang maging "endurance match" itong Gloriagate issue. Patagalan. Stretch it out.

Of course, kaya nila yan because they have unlimited resources and taxmoney to do that. Ang problema lang nga, ang pera na kukunin ng admin na pambayad sa mga witnesses at mga "damage control" efforts nila ay manggagaling sa bulsa nating mga taxpayers.

But GMA and her administration don't seem to mind since hindi naman nila pera yan eh.