UPDATE: De Quiros does have a point (erm... or maybe not)

What is dismaying about all this is not the opposition’s inability to consolidate their victory at the polls by having a Senate president who would distribute the spoils among them. What is dismaying -- no, disgusting -- about this is that this so-called opposition can think of nothing else. What is dismaying about this is not that the opposition cannot get its act together in the simple matter of choosing a Senate president, mounting one failed meeting after the other. What is dismaying -- no, disgusting -- about this is that this so-called opposition should try to mount one meeting after another to discuss nothing else....

What is the mandate of the opposition? The mandate of the opposition is to oppose. The voters put them there, not so they could oppose the fact that they are not in power while their administration rivals are. The voters put them there to oppose the fact that an illegitimate government is mounting a dictatorship on this country. What is dismaying -- no, disgusting -- is that at the time the opposition was busy opposing one another on who should step into the shoes of the Senate president -- and presumably the president three years from now -- was that they did not lack for more life-and-death things to oppose. There was the impending reign of terror in the form of the antiterror law, there was the unrelenting spread of the culture of impunity in the form of the killings, there was Edita Burgos, mother to a disappeared child, who could not find justice in a land her husband helped to free.

Hell, they were so busy opposing one another they could not even oppose the horrendous iniquity of one of their own, Koko Pimentel, being muscled out of their fold right before their very eyes.

Bakit hindi ipinaglalaban ni Senate President Villar at ng mga iba pang taga opposition ang panggagago na ginagawa ng COMELEC at ng Supreme Court kay Koko Pimentel? Here's the rest of the Article.

Yan ang una nilang dapat asikasuhin, IMO. Else, magiging tatanga-tanga ang bagong Senate "majority" na ito.

UPDATE: OTOH, Hindi ba naiisip ni de Quiros na kaya gusto ng opposition na ma-resolba muna at makuha ang Senate presidency sa panig nila ay dahil kapag napunta ang Majority sa administration ay hindi na magiging ganado ang Senate sa pag-imbestiga sa mga abuses, extra-judicial killings, at ang katarantaduhan na ginawa ni Bedol sa Maguindanao?