Peachie pie

The burning question: should the Senate proceed with the impeachment trial or not?

- Joseph T. Gonzales

Pretty much all the editorials are saying the same thing --there is no other option for the Senate to take but that of proceeding against Vice President Sara Duterte. To do otherwise is, to put it delicately, to shirk from its constitutional duty. Others who aren’t as delicate have put out descriptors like chicken-poop and yeller-skinned. We’re classier than that, but you get the drift.

So who’s afraid of Sara Duterte? Or if not Sara, then the legions of rabid Duterte fans? You know. Those who made sure certain candidates were propelled to their seats during the last elections, and sank other hopefuls. The noisy ones. All fire and fury.

The surveys might show that a majority of Filipinos agree with the arrest, extraction, and criminal trial of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte at The Hague, but that majority sure didn’t lord over the entirety of the nation at the last elections.