I left the country more than two weeks ago, and the central focus then of Senators Antonio Trillanes 4th, Alan Peter Cayetano and Aquilino Pimentel 3rd and their principal media ally was the alleged wrongdoing and ill-gotten wealth of Vice President Jejomar Binay when he was still mayor of Makati. I came home yesterday from that short trip, and the same parties were still focused on the same thing. Only the intensity of the assault seems to have changed.
For the past few months, this has been the single most important issue confronting the three young terrors of the Senate, and their principal ally in the conscript press. Everywhere else, everyone has managed to discuss other things—Ukraine, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Hong Kong, China, Russia, India, BRICS, Ebola in West Africa and the United States. But not here, and not our three senators.
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