BEFORE proceeding, many thanks to Sen. Gringo Honasan, for returning my call last Saturday despite his loaded schedule that day, and a weekend at that!

Thus, I am obliged to put in here the “rejoinder” that he wants added in my interview with him as regards the trooping to the MILF of former (read: veteran) fighters of the MNLF.

Needless to say, this should be cause for worry although GPH lead peace negotiator, Marvic Leonen, in his reply to me thru OPAP media director, Poly Cunanan, said the MILF’s confirmation still has to be “verified.”

Ewan ko ba sa inyo d’yan sa OPAP, mga bosing. “Ipinagyabang” na nga ng kalaban “for verification” pa sa inyo, tsk,tsk,tsk.

But going back to Sen. Gringo. Mainly and just like his other colleagues, this former-destabilizer-turned-law-abiding-citizen, is already “eager” to see the impeachment trial against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona concluded the soonest time possible.

“Without sacrificing due process, I hope we can finish the trial very soon. There are other important national problems that we have to deal with like peace and order and poverty,” he added.

However, Honasan conceded that with only one article of impeachment being heard by the impeachment court thus far (there are eight of them), nobody can yet predict on how long the whole trial would last.

“Wala pang makapagsabi kung gaano pa tatagal ang pagdinig pero, importanteng matapos na rin agad ito dahil napakarami pang problema ng ating bayan ang dapat tutukan ng lahat at asikasuhin.”

Amen to that, Sen. Gringo, as your “gem of wisdom” as to what the country’s priorities must be somehow reminds me of the January 12 news briefing at the Manila Hotel given by the camp of ex-PGMA.

I am those who were surprised to learn that in her spare time while incarcerated at St. Luke’s Hospital, GMA was not only busy planning her escape, oops, attending to her need to seek medical treatment abroad.

As many of us in the media learned that day, she found the energy to write an assessment of the economy (she has a doctorate on the economy at the UP) and, without the benefit of solicitation, offered her conclusion on what must be done these days to P-Noy, her former student on the subject at the Ateneo de Manila.

But the kind and gentle person that she is, Elena Bautista-Horn, GMA’s spokesperson who was at the news briefing, declined to comment on where P-Noy was actually sitting in the room while GMA, the professor, was propounding on the “mysteries” of the economy.

Saan nga ba nakaupo si P-Noy noon? Sa first row, second, third, or last row na malapit sa basurahan? Hindi rin sinagot ni Madam Bautista kung anong “grade” ang nakuha ni P-Noy, sa klase ni GMA, sayang, hahaha!

Her official standing in the public’s eyes and the present administration notwithstanding, GMA made no bones in telling P-Noy to focus more on the economy and not on the “politics of division” that GMA felt is what P-Noy and his gang, err, officials, have been promoting since “Day One” of his administration.

Now, Sen. Gringo and GMA are coming from two separate side of our body politic but their message is the same -- the more important, urgent, politicking that everyone wants to happen is less of the politics of division being blamed on P-Noy.

Stated differently, what everybody now wants to see is more of the “politics of the stomach” focused on the “bread and butter” issues like employment, poverty reduction and the bedrock by which they can be made to stand -- peace and order in every corner of the country.

Of course, P-Noy boasted that the year just passed, 2011, has been a “good” one. But then, statistics in the economic front and elsewhere runs contrary to what he was bragging, err, saying.

This “shift” in the public’s mood cannot be helped if we are to consider how P-Noy’s congressional allies are making a joke of their performance in every hearing of the Senate impeachment court.

After all, the electorate deserves a far better deal -- employment, peace and order, among others -- than to be entertained every afternoon by the bunch of clowns that P-Noy sent over at the Senate to crucify, ehek, persecute, opps, prosecute, CJ Corona.

And how is P-Noy reacting to what he has been seeing so far, “Kuyang” Jimmie Policarpio?

Aba’y “pinapatay” na raw ni P-Noy ang telebisyon kapag nagsimula na ang hearing, hehehe! Ano ’yan, kahit ba siya ay “nahihiya” sa kanyang nakikita, hahaha!

Gusto ko tuloy paniwalaan ang “tsismis” na sa kasagsagan ng pinapakitang kahihiyan sa Senado ng mga prosecutors noong isang linggo, isang malapit na kamag-anak ni P-Noy ang nag-text sa kanya ng “Congratulations!” Aber, “nang-asar” pa si uncle, hahaha!

And my word of caution is that the continued intervention of P-Noy’s group of senator-prosecutors, ehek, senator-judges, to save the day for the amateurish prosecution panel can only backfire on P-Noy and his credibility as a leader.

May “tulog” sa 2013 elections ang mga kandidatong itataas ni P-Noy ang kamay, ito ang nakikita nating posibilidad kaya... abangan!

Eh, paano ba naman, Mr. President, na hindi maiwasang “magkalat” ng mga bataan mo sa Senado samantalang hindi lang isa, bagkus, DALAWA ang bar flunker sa mga umuusig kay CJ Corona, mantakin mo ‘yan, hahaha!

On this, you may want to ask lead prosecutor, Neil Tupaz III and prosecution spokesman, Erin Tañada, who these guys in their group might be. Sigurado ko, kilala nila!

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