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Sakit punya kepala OR kepala punya sakit ni?

BN backbenchers have staged a revolt against DPM and BN party Whip.

They hinted that the party whip did not give a directive when their former head supported a motion from the Opposition.

And, yes, nobody winked an eye at Jasin.

FLASHBACK...

First, you have Shahrir Abdul Samad resigned as the head of BN Backbenchers Club (BBC) because the backbenchers did not endorse his support of an Opposition motion to refer an MP to the select Committee of Parliament for intervening in a Customs seizure case.

Next, Shahrir's resignation was accepted by Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who is also the BN whip.

Next, you have Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, and BN's officeboy in parliament, Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz saying it was a rule that government MPs do not support the motions tabled by the opposition.

This was reaffirmed by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who said his deputy has done "the right thing".

SCENE 6 Act 1:

Today, a group of BN backbenchers staged an open revolt.

  • They said they wanted Shahrir to continue leading them and demanded greater powers.

  • They said the rule that government MP cannot support opposition motions must not be cast in stone. BBC secretary Rosli Mat Hassan (BN-Dungun) ead out a statement on behalf of his peers stating that "the unwritten rule that presently made it mandatory for BN MPs to oppose any opposition motion regardless of merit ran counter to basic parliamentary practice and infringed on the duties of MPs".

  • They said they did not accept Shahrir's resignation as the BBC head and will propose for his re-election at a special meeting tomorrow. Leading the pack is Kota Baru MP Zaid Ibrahim.

  • They said it was their right to decide on who leads them and, in an obvious snub to the DPM, added that it was irrelevant if others accepted the resignation.

EPILOGUE

Can you tolerate an outcome that is good but the principle and process are so wrong?

Kepala punya sakit lah ni... Sakit punya kepala lah tu...

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guess what,
TDM is striking back,
behind the movement.
(kopitiam story..i heard)

More politicians like Shahrir are needed in our country - he has the guts to do what he thinks is right. On the other hand, the PM, DPM & his jesters will not want anyone with brains to be in Parliment.
Shahrir should get back there & get the whip cracking - stem the corruption!

KenD

You beat me to the punch..I read the headlines in Malaysiakini and I was aksing myself if these backbenchers were aligned to DTM!!!..I guess we both see the elephant in the lving room and can't relly close an eye, can we!

poor Mission:impossible! THey chosed a worng time to launch that movie. They hv to compete with Parliament:BN:III also. With great actors such as these clowns no wonder MI3 isnt doing too well as expected. Is this aploy to cover up something even bigger and to draw our attention away? Maybe it is high time they accept back Shahrir as the leader for BBC and just close one eye on his furore.

No one has a monopoly on being right so it's rather odd why the incumbents should think that whatever the opposition proposes should be opposed by them.

After all, weren't both sides elected by the rakyat to do the right thing?

Secondly their rationale has been micromanaged that because they had opined against the police commission, they could not therefore vote to do the opposite on one of their members.

If that be the case, wouldn't it be tantamount they can't act on any incidence smelling of corruption, ever in the future?

It seems that although the Royal London Circus has already left town, remnants are still playing out their acts around.

The circus ringmaster is of course out of sight, having passed the whip to someone else only to concur that if A is not B, then whatever B does must be opposed by A, a decision that seems to say the interest of the party is bigger than the interest of the voter, or for that matter, the future of integrity of the country.

Has Badawi and the Cabinet and the rest of Parliament even till today failed to realize that the rakyat are not amused by such superficial kneejerk reactions? That they would expect people who're going to rule to show higher maturity of thought based on seeing things with wider peripheral vision, not the blowpiped silos best fitted for navigating the jungles of yesteryears?

They seem to forget everytime why they were elected in the first place.

In just four current examples, one get instances of what is wrong

- the decision to build a LCCT disconnected from KLIA is cannibalising KLIA, creating difficulties for customers, and blowing the megabillion investment in the airport;

- the reason given to erect the Ipoh flagpole at RM390K was that the funds came from the state, and not the city;

- the spending of millions again to celebrate PJ city status where the MB of the state can express dismay when one would expect such a ceo to have received the details before going to the press, and therefore have had time to do something about it, and,

- not solving the working conditions and policies decisively before calling for brains to return.

Denials, inaction, pretense, sandiwaras, kneejerk thought processes, juvenile spending, irresponsibility, no peripheral vision, blowpipe silos, eunuchries.

Want action; just take each trait and below it write down what must be done to reduce it. Then do it.

I'm confuse after reading the article. Was the New Srait Times being refer in the motion or the MP? o_O

What is this sandiwara about? Let me guess,
Sarawak elections?
some redistribution of "wealth"?
early "show works"for 2007-8 elections?
An diversion for more mismanagement?

Honestly, I don't see a noble reason that BN parliaments member straight up their spine overnight.


I wonder what will happen if the opposition put on a motion saying that ISLAM HADHARI is good Malaysia and put it to vote. Will the BN ASSHOLE's reject or support it?

Airsnort,

Why do you bring such arguments in here? Sounds similar to what one dude posted on another of such threads..asking if everyone striped and opposition passed a motion to put on cloths! Perhaps one can keep his/her opinion to a more objective nature, rather then silly comparisons!

I think most malaysians of all works of life support moderation in Islam! It would be only stupid for opposition to make such a proposition, they will loose their credibility!

Finally MPs are showing some balls. Very rare sight. Of course, they only tegak when they're in a pack. See what happens.

Airsnort,

I like your proposal, although we shouldn't bring up religion now.

How about this:-

Opposition proposes a motion that "TDM is WRONG in saying that Malaysia is a half-past-six country with no guts!"

Whooo... imagine our PM and DPM fighting to prevent our MPs from NOT voting FOR the motion! What a laugh!!

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