By Robert B. Roque, Jr.
Senator Robin Padilla and his emphatic argument on a husband’s right to be served by his spouse in bed whenever he feels the urge for sex has made him look foolish and stick out like a sore thumb in the Senate once again.
Patiently explaining to him across the session room the problematic stance from which his questions originate was lawyer Lorna Capunan.
In a nutshell of wit and grace, she sent a slap across the room to Sen. Binoy’s face by stating that such a man who insists on having intercourse with his wife even if she says “no” needs psycho-social counseling.
She then lectures the dumb and dumber who may be listening in that since the Family Code was written in 1988, the obligation of a wife to be obedient to her husband has been stricken off the Constitution; and replaced, instead, by a clause on mutual respect.
Next time, the senator needs a cold shower first before facing such hearings. His mental attitude when entering these discussions needs to be doused with ice water, perhaps, to freeze his carnal disposition.
Even the direction of his language and his playing with the idea of translating their conversations on sexual matters into straight Tagalog is abominable for public discourse.
Next elections, let’s carefully choose the kind of people we elect to sit in Congress, please. Okey na po sigurong minimum requirement yung disente; yung hindi nakakahiya at hindi bastos.
Shocked Pebbles
What comes as a shock to Sen. Ronald dela Rosa is that those who sang praises at the height of his boss Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and their vaunted “Oplan Tokhang” are now pointing fingers at them for human rights abuses.
But there’s nothing to be shocked about really with the sudden change in tune from lawmakers. Duterte’s time is up.
As for Senator Pebbles, here, let’s state the obvious: When you peddle fear, people clap in public but whisper doubts in private. That’s what the former PNP Chief-turned-senator is all too oblivious about.
Now that the winds have shifted, there’s no use in lamenting their opportunism, Mr. Senator. Perhaps, the right thing for you to do is reflect on the reasons they’re now distancing themselves.
If not before the world court or the bar of your peers, then maybe you still have a chance at least at making peace with The Man Upstairs.
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