Soliloquy

      What is a fetcher bill?  William Safire's  Political Dictionary defines it as "a legislative proposal designed to attract a bribe to bury it."   Another definition elucidates on it as "a measure that, by threatening to curtail some commercial interests, provides incentive for a payoff to obtain the death of the bill" .  The obvious flip side of either definition is that it can also be a bill that seeks to grant some advantage or privilege to identified individuals or sectors that are pre-contracted to provide incentives for the expeditious enactment of the measure.  Example of this is a proposed legislative franchise to engage in certain areas of business.  The other type of legislative proposal is an omnibus measure where many interests are affected, more often unfavorably, and they are prompted to mount  lobbies or representations for favorable amendments or deletions in the proposed law.  This is where the action is, so to speak, as many parties are

        That basic question signifies that of resignation to what is not possible anymore or the other implication is a despairing wish for a reason from anywhere so that the person who now occupies the highest position of power in the land can somehow become respectable as it should be.  It is simply that people have already given up on having a President in Mr. Duterte that one can look to as a model for propriety and decency as a person and leader.  Many even among those who voted for Mr. Duterte are now just hoping his era, like some awful winter, will sooner than later pass with the least damage on the humanist values and culture of the nation.  A few are still hoping for that the man would undergo some psychological transformation that would sensitize him with moral accountability in his governance and his objectives, some of which are positive and welcome, can be carried out forcefully but in civilized ways.                      There is no respect but there is fear for Mr