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Let's count the eggs now that they are hatched.

In GE2008, the BN won 140 seats, while opposition parties won an unprecedented 82 seats. The Opposition now outweighs the BN backbenchers 82-77.

These are what the BN has in political capital, pointing to the fact that Ketuanan Umno is still dominant and minority groups could do nothing to strike a ground-rule change in the incumbent's political system:

- Umno (79 seats)
- MCA (15)
- PBB (14)
- SUPP (6)
- PRS (6)
- SPDP (4)
- UPKO (4)
- MIC (3)
- PBS (3)
- SAPP (2)
- Gerakan (2)
- LDP (1)
- PBRS (1)

And now, this is why the Sabahan politicians are considering themselves as the King Makers of Malaysian politics -- they helped Umno to retain absolute power, but they get the crumbs when it comes to payback time, counted in the currency of ministerial posts and pork barrel economics that come with it.

Another Sabahan leader has put it in a crass and crude manner: You move into the bungalow, but you are given room next to the toilet.

EXPIRY DATE. On the other hand, the King Makers do have an expiry date, Quote Yong Teik Lee of SAPP on why he set an August deadline for Abdullah:

"The fasting month will be September, Hari Raya in October and Umno elections in December. I think the maximum we can go is August for our issues to be settled. After December, Sabah will be forgotten again.

We in Sabah, will go back to our subservient role, quietly go on with our lives, or it will explode, other players will come in. Other players will come into the Opposition, people from outside the BN will take the forefront, not us."

What is left unsaid is that Umno will come after the 'disloyal' component parties once the tai ko puts its house in order after the party election by the end of the year. BN/Umno should have a file on each of them. That's why I said should Operation Moving House take place, it has to be swift and clinically decisive.

In the final analysis, Umno is the dominant party in the 14-party BN coalition. It's a fact. As the tai ko in the Ketuanan Umno agenda, the 62-year-old party occupies 22 ministers' posts in a Cabinet of 27 members -- not forgetting that Umno commands and controls a whooping 81% of the Cabinet representation though it only contributes 56.4%, or 79 out of 140, of the seats collectively won by BN component parties.

Is this BN's "power-sharing" formula that Ong Ka Ting is talking about? The more it changed the more it remained the same for Malaysian politics, or so it seems.

But there is a way to drastically reduce, if not totally remove, Ketuanan Umno in Malaysia. Hijrah to where political tsunami has resulted!