And The Midnight Appointments Continue

Well that shouldn't be the case according to the Supreme Court. In a statement by court spokesperson Midas Marques, the Supreme Court said that Malacañang cannot use their recent decision allowing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to appoint the next Chief Justice to justify the recent spree of so-called midnight appointments.

A little to late for that now I would say. Arroyo’s flurry of recent appointments, which were disclosed last week, drew criticisms that these were midnight appointments - and of course it doesn't help that Malacañang would not say when each appointment was signed.

Very fishy indeed. If they wanted to clear matters up they should outright say that these appointments were made prior to the ban or something to that effect. Of course whether the people believe them or not is another thing entirely.

And look she appointed her college classmate Cynthia Carreon as head of the Tourism Promotions Board. She sure made a lot of last minute appointments, changing our Ambassador to Germany who only learned she was being replaced when she got an award from the president.

Wow, did not even have the decency to tell them they were being replaced until the last minute and during an awards ceremony at that. What a slap in the face.

Deputy presidential spokesperson Gary Olivar said that the appointments made “over an extended period of time” were all legal and was only now being reported.

Well if they were only now being reported then doesn't it go without saying that they were only now being made. I don't think the replacement of an ambassador to a major European country and the sacking and replacement of a lot of people at the same time will not constitute news if they were indeed made the time frame they said it was made.

If nothing else show proof so it will all come to rest.

Of course it will not remove the fact that it is all highly questionable. But then again since they are presidential appointees the incoming new president should just replace them all as is usually the norm.

Oh wait, what am I saying, there will not be any new president because we will be having a failed election. My bad I forgot about that - DUH!