It’s perplexing to me that for all the expert counsel and strategic direction that Vice president Jejomar Binay is allegedly getting from foreign and local strategists and advisers, the Binay camp up to now has evidently not bothered to do one iota of research on the demagoguery of Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the US Senate and on the menace called “McCarthyism” and on how they were effectively stopped?

It’s even more mystifying to me that despite the black eye that the three senator-stooges—Antonio Trillanes, Alan Peter Cayetano and Koko Pimentel—have given the Senate and the nosedive of the chamber to the bottom as the least trusted government institution in the country today, not a single one of our 23 senators—whether male or female—has complained that what Trillanes and company are doing in the subcommittee hearings is a derangement of the Senate’s powers and responsibilities.