UPDATE: Arroyo appoints 75-year old Jose Melo as COMELEC chair

before, he appointed corrupt partisans and crooked operators as commissioners. Now she appoints a way too old person for the job.

Can't find anybody who's at least 20 years younger? the ole COMELEC operators, if they want to, can run rings round this geezer.

UPDATE: Notice the members of the search committee here and here? I don't see any Opposition or Anti-GMA personalities on the list. I see a lot of church people (as if the CBCP is not predominantly pro-Arroyo), and I see some who are blatantly Arroyo apologists. Some are for "reforms" but have a difficult time telling it like it is (i suspect he's a closet arroyo supporter (his wife is) but wearing a "moderate/independent" clothing, just like this phony).

So a bipartisan search committee these ain't. Excluding people who you don't agree with politically is not the way to go.