They really have run out of good sense.

Despite stepping on the reverse gear in full throttle, congressmen pushing for the con-ass remain unrepentant about their role in what would have been a monumental rape of Philippine democracy. It is disgusting really. Here you have a cook dropping off the potato that has gotten extremely hot and yet refusing to take any blame for heating it in the first place. That's our congressmen for you. Going by the way they put out their arguments, it would seem like we even owe them gratitude because they discontinued the con-ass “in the spirit of Christmas”. Indeed, how ungrateful have we become? What they are telling the Filipinos at this point is that after a rape try is aborted because the would-be victim decided to fight back, it is the duty of the latter to thank the former, profusely if it can be arranged. At least, Cebu Rep. Antonio Cuenco had the good sense to apologize for being part of the con-ass.

He made it appear that he was merely towing the party line but he actually wanted a con-con. It's really getting clearer that Speaker Jose de Venecia didn't have the numbers but that he was merely bluffing, as Sen. Joker Arroyo put it. The good senator is merely being diplomatic. De Venecia was lying, and all his congressmen went along with that lie. Now that events overtook Congress and Malacañang, the administration wants to make light of it. Just like in the aftermath of the shameless resolution of the impeachment resolution in Congress, they have the gall to urge the people to “move on”. Just like that? Maybe it's because we are still celebrating Christmas and Lenten is still a long way to go so people are in no mood to be penitent. Or maybe it is just because people have grown so callous that they no longer feel any compulsion for remorse. “I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in “Death in the Afternoon”. Hemingway obviously did not have the Arroyo administration and the de Venecia Congress in mind when he wrote that. Certainly, this definition does not apply to people who can afford to feel good even after the act. It was apt that it took church leaders to stand up and say “We've had it!” Just shows that God does intervene when the people have had more than enough.