Did he really mean it?

Iba na ang tono ni Doronila ngayon:

The tapes created a crisis of legitimacy for the Arroyo presidency that was not resolved by the May 2007 midterm elections, seen as a referendum on her administration. The poll results gave the administration’s ruling coalition an even more overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives and the opposition a slim majority in the Senate.

Kung ikukumpara mo sa mga isinulat niya dati:

On June 7, Ms Arroyo gave a speech at the closing session of the outgoing 13th Congress, thanking its members for saving her from two impeachment attempts. More than that, she acknowledged the overwhelming victory of the coalition in the House and the local governments in the May election, the 25th since the seminal 1907 parliamentary election.

Ms Arroyo recognized only one overwhelming result -- that for the House and local government offices -- although the Senate election results were equally overwhelming. She said the House election results were a “continuing mandate of reform, unity, more work and less politics. We all have a mandate to look forward to and leave behind the contentious past.”

Was doronila sincere when he wrote that? Or this?

Annihilation

First posted 01:58:20 (Mla time) June 08, 2007
Amando Doronila
Inquirer

The impact of the overwhelming opposition sweep of the Senate election was so shocking to the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration that it took more than a week after the 8-2-2 result had firmed up to recover from the shock and to concede it had lost control of the Senate.

O pambobola lang ito to make the opposition feel good about themselves?

Because when the opposition tried to fulfill their mandate by holding the admin accountable for Hello Garci, parang galit si Doronila. Eh kung ipina-imbestiga rin ng oppo yung Maguindanao at yung extra-judicial killings, magagalit na naman si Doronila?