Pakatan still can’t shoot straight on dissolution day
CYNICAL fools hounded and pounded the Prime Minister for years with inane and insane bunk on why he should dissolve the Dewan Rakyat prematurely – to the Opposition’s advantage of course.
Nevertheless, the misanthropic guesswork that preceded yesterday’s dissolution was diabolical: Opposition leaders goaded the PM to announce D-Day on almost every quarter since 2011, hoping an earlier snap election could convert their March 8, 2008 concessions into bigger gains.
Azmi Anshar, NST
But Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak dismissed the contemptuous bait-and-switch tactics by focusing on an unstoppable momentum to further advance the nation’s socio-economic fortunes that has defined his administration.
So, it was easy for him to ignore the Opposition hogwash that whined incessantly about a dissolution that didn’t arrive to their convenience and one that went beyond the emblematic March 8 date.
But when he finally did yesterday, it was Najib’s sentimentality that guided the decision – the live telecast to announce Parliamentary dissolution also marked the fourth anniversary of his swearing-in as PM. Who would have thought?
Nevertheless, the misanthropic guesswork that preceded yesterday’s dissolution was diabolical: Opposition leaders goaded the PM to announce D-Day on almost every quarter since 2011, hoping an earlier snap election could convert their March 8, 2008 concessions into bigger gains.
When Najib refused to even nibble their bait, the opposition denounced him “cowardly” but when it was obvious that Najib would look beyond March 8, his March 8 snub was “shameless.”
Despite the constitutionality of his actions, Najib still endured claims of illegitimacy, no less than by the biggest cynic of them all, Lim Kit Siang.
Lim’s sneers was hypocritical: if illegitimacy and not legality was the imperilled issue, then he should have ensured that the Pakatan Rakyat state governments of Penang, Kedah, Kelantan and Selangor dissolve on March 8 as a mark of “virtuous principle.”
Was it a surprise that he didn’t? Lim blasé argument that Najib had lost moral legitimacy and credibility after March 8 was as flaccid as his jowls. Wouldn’t the status of his son the Penang chief minister and the other Pakatan mentris besar be just as morally illegitimate and incredible?
The response to Lim’s cynical calculation was whooping incredulity that recognised Lim’s familiar theatrics cannoning off cynical hyperbole in sound-bite loops that repeats itself to fit his self-preservation.
Like his son, Kit Siang would forever – even if he unthinkably ever held Federal power – assumed the bunker mentality of paranoid victimology that suspects lurking dissenters in every nook and corner desperate to sack them from their hypocritically dynastic high horses.
However, in the father-son tag team, their paranoia is actually valid: everywhere you go, conscientious DAP state and branch leaders have rebelled so greatly that Guan Eng will now realise that Penang is no walkover and Kit Siang risks political seppuku in Gelang Patah.
But why would Lim Kit Siang and son, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his Pas’ ilk, these people bray for rule of law, hyperventilate at the thought of a Government optimising its five-year constitutional tenure?
Simple: this longest stint recorded is as long as the rope that the PKR, DAP and Pas used to hang themselves as they bicker, backstab and undercut in such juxtaposing bedlam, chronicled assiduously in 30 ways by Anwar’s former lawyer, Datuk Zulkifli Noordin, in his blog.
Just a sample of Zulkifli’s censure of Pakatan’s daft potboilers leads to another cynical theme: anything less than the takeover of Putrajaya will deem GE13 as being fraught with fraud and irregularity.
Anwar and his minions have harped on the idea of uncontrollable street demonstrations if Pakatan fails to grab Putrajaya on the delusion that majority of Malaysians will vote for them.
In the euphoria of that delusion, Pakatan entered into a paradox of sorts when they proclaimed in their Hail Mary general election manifesto that they will ensure a free and fair election once they win Putrajaya.
Hold on! If they win, then wouldn’t the general election conducted by the Election Commission be more than fair! So why keep carping on a fraud poll?
Other than Pakatan implying that they will win elections which themselves rigged, such incontinent self-flattery is the textbook excuse to justify their continued existence even after the majority voted them out fair and square.
But for the likes of Pakatan Rakyat’s scandal-prone, infirmed, cynical and uncouth leaders, losing objectively and equitably is a nightmare that will truly expose their Orwellian characters and hurtle them down the road to oblivion and, heaven forbid, retirement.
