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Should Pak Lah hold on to the post of Interior Security Minister or Internal Security Minister?

Should Pak Lah hold on to the post of Interior Security Minister or Internal Security Minister?

Pak Lah really has not talent whatsoever to drive any of his portfolio. What did he do with Finance Ministry, other than reading and presenting the budget report, he has done little but leaving the work to the 2nd Finance Minister. As in the Internal Security Minister, the crime index rocketed upward, the discipline of the PDRM and Rela comes into question for all the wrong reasons. And as for the Prime Ministership, the country overall has shown very little progress, his cabinet ministers seems to have own ideas, even his son in law who is not an elected representive seems to be calling the shots.

Pak Lah is going into the history book as a very insignificant PM of Malaysia.

A dozen innocents have lost their lives to rape and murder since the oil hike. Come first quarter next year, months only ahead, there will be another price hike. And more brutal killings.

With so many people in the cabinet, they must be more proactive, not wait for bad things to happen to the rakyat before they start to pour resources in or clamour for solutions.

If a pm doesn't even know what his racist sil has said or done, how can he hold three ministerial posts at the same time, and tackle such critical situations?

Let go of both internal security and finance. Put new fellas in both, not deadwood or political bullshitters. Outsource if you must - it doesn't matter anymore if the guy's not brown or white or yellow just so long as he can catch the mice that eat the rice of the rakyat.

If he can't get a kick-ass guy to quickly handle rakyat safety, then outsource to the austrians - messrs heckler and koch. They'll do the job quick and clean.

I believe anyone could not concentrate in so many posts. So, I agree he should let go for the good of the country and to show that he is a PM that cares.

Eventhough he has got the deputy to help him, but work slows down a lot since all the thinking by his deputy has to get his approval before it gets executed. The efficiency of the departments and the country is affected.

Most crimes succeed because of the lack of efficiency in counter measuring.

"It's the economy stupid!" seems to come to mind every time I see disgruntled comments about the administration of Pak Lah. It does not matter if you are a good person, if the economy is broke, then chances are that you will go down as a lame duck PM.

Mind you. Recovering from years of overexuberence in our own country, the Asian Crisis, a globalised world (flat but not necessarily all even), unprecedented oil prices, terror round the world, a rising China and India and furthermore a perceived son in law who has skewed ... it is probably a blessing that we are not in worse shape.

We now have proposed mega projects that you can count with one hand (five fingers)... maybe that is already the one significant thing that Pak Lah has done.

The former Prime Minister gave us amongst many significant things the North South Highway, something we all agree we no longer can do without. I relate this significance with being something good for the Malaysians.

Prudence has its place in history but maybe we now need to go forward. Two and the half years of consolidation, of detoxification, may have been in hindsight needed. But in the end we still have to take the next step and move forward or get left behind.

Pak Lah does seem to want to move forward albeit wanting to move forward does not mean one can or knows how to move forward.

Pak Lah likes to analyse things from the perspective of soccer.

Maybe he will then visualise that he cannot be the striker, defender, midfielder and goalkeeper at the same time.

His cabinet, his people are his football team, maybe he should liken himself to being the coach? Who are his strikers? His defenders, the army? The Police force?

Not only can he not play all positions, but he also needs to have the best players on the field. Team players even.

Do we have the likes of John Terry in our defence?

Do we play this football clean or are we like the league in Italy?

While in all reality we will never play the real football like Brazil or France. The playing field for this analogy is entirely different and yet similar.

If we continue to play on a bumpy field, our football will be crap. If our home pitch is beautiful and smooth, we will be able to learn to play and others will want to come and play too.

Quest said it all...

Since he's not good in finance, he should not hold the FM post. Give it to the guy who's working till 2 am everyday on your budget Pak Lah. Just reading it is not good enough. And it's high time that we have a criminal law minister on its own to bring down the number of criminal cases which is higher than the number of spectators at Pestabola merdeka. Come on Pak Lah, you have too much to handle, too much to swallow, don't you trust your own Malaysians?

The right thing for Abdullah, in terms of holding Cabinet post, is just to be PM and give up all other posts . At the same time the DPM's post should be abolished.Abdullah then will have more time to monitor other Ministers who, it is very obvious to everyone,need very close supervision and guidance and see how it works.

Aiyo, want to be goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and striker at the same time. Pergi-lah, even one position also cannot handle well. Shows lack of confidence in other people, or a control freak who needs to control for his personal benefit. Which one is AAB ?

Woah - he got PM pay plus 2 minister pay ha?

Anyway im not paid extra for multi-task job given by my boss. Sigh!

Sorry for the off-track Jeff

pak lah need to show some leadership and learn to delicate the right job to the right people based on merits and not on politics alone. perhaps it's time to have another non-malay finance minister? let him prove that non-malay is also capable of bringing prosperities to all malaysians and real development to the needies - malays or otherwise.

Does Badawi draw three full time salaries when he is performing part time in each job? Does he also get three pensions (tax free) eventually?

Granted AAB may just be following the foot step of TDM,there is little doubt that he is trying to handle too many things at the saem time.

For his perosnal calculation,I beleive that he should give up the finance portfolio,and just keep the home affairs.

Ideally he should give them all up and just be a boss,but IN Asia,the leaders do have very funny way of calcultaion.