This Ain't Your Granddaddy's Congress Anymore...

Inquirer.net editorial on members of congress and their product endorsements.

What got me laughing was this statement:

The Senate began to lose its gravitas when it was “invaded” by actors, comedians, basketball players and some nonperforming assets whose voices are seldom heard in sessions or committee hearings. Now, the chamber is further losing its gravitas, with several senators becoming glamorized hucksters for certain products. In the past, one would never see, or even imagine, a Sen. Claro M. Recto, a Lorenzo M. Tañada, a Jose W. Diokno or a Jovito R. Salonga endorsing a soap, a detergent, a health product or a facial care center....

I sincerely believe that the Senate lost much more than its gravitas hehe. Frankly speaking, the collective wit, candor, eloquence and intellectual brilliance of the past five Congresses cannot even reach half of Claro M. Recto's or even that
of Lorenzo Tañada's.

Gone are the statesmen of yesteryears from the hallowed halls of Congress. What replaced them as legislators are misfits, miscreants, pampered dilletantes, shady powerbrokers, criminal kingpins, bloodthirsty warlords, ass-kissing sycophants, diminished scions of political families whose only sole claim to fame is THAT appellido, retired actors and athletes with nary an idea of the legislative process, neurotic babblemouths given to paranoid delusions, the list of 'unmentionables' goes on...

It's a bit ironic to note that the word democracy in its original Greek meant 'rule of the common people.'However, for the Greeks, the term 'common people' was not meant as a compliment...