Senator Miriam Santiago in Letting her Anger out
After learning that Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago had been removed from the shortlist of candidates for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, she wasted no time in lambasting at the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) and blew her top….
“I am irate. I am foaming at the mouth. I’m homicidal. I’m suicidal. I’m humiliated, debased, degraded. And not only that, I feel like throwing up to be living my middle years in a country of this nature. I am nauseated. I spit in the face of Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban and his cohorts in the Supreme Court.”
Foaming at the mouth How hilarious! Miram can be so funny in her anger. She is someone who doesn’t mince words. Yes , her anger is a process she has to undergo. Feeling angry and sometimes the act of blaming is a natural and necessary part of accepting loss and change. Anger is a part of life. We need not dwell in it or seek it out but we can’t afford to ignore it.
In recovery, I have learned that I can shamelessly feel all my feelings including anger, and still take responsibility for what I do when I feel angry. I don’t have to let anger control me but it surely will if I prevent myself from feeling it. Being grateful, being positive , being healthy does not mean we never feel angry. Being grateful, positive and healthy means we feel angry when we need to.
You know , I have a soft spot in my heart for Miriam only because I feel her pain over her son’s death a few years ago. Even if she looked really “crazy” during her priveleged speech, I give her some slack knowing she will be okay tomorrow. At some point, she will be done with her anger. I know Miriam can release her anger constructively and take responsibility for her actions.
Even if she takes it personally, she might even produce positive effects. Let’s see…
“I will say that I resent it very deeply. I take it very personally and I will see to it that while I remain in public office that every member of the JBC shall eventually be held to account for their partisanship. For this reason, I will participate in the Con-ass (constituent assembly) for the main purpose of abolishing the JBC for corruption,” she told the Inquirer.
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Senator Miriam is such a character I just can’t imagine the senate without her. With her I tend to go beyond the issue because there’s something about her that you would tend to remember in the way that you do Melanie Marquez. Also with her hair-do yesterday, she looked like, and was as hysterical, as Mogatu (Will Ferell) of Zoolander
@poppycock - yes she looked really mad. Her hair, her eyebags….but it’s good she let it out.
indeed, politics would be boring without her. such a strong character, a principled feminist.
@aileen - Senator Santiago has a point too you know.
what will you do if you are the best candidate for the job, showed up for the interview but was asked to go home because the other interviewees cowardly backed out and then you learned you were just crossed out of the list because some geniuses just made up a rule that only insiders should get the job?
doing injustice to an applicant for chief justice is the worst injustice in the world!
If I were Miriam, I’m gonna ask Panganiban for a DEBATE.
Laos Ka na Miriam, kung ano ano pinapasok mo ! Matinti ang delusion sa utak mo ! Kailangan mo na sigurong magpatingin ka kung may Personality Disorder ka na kahalo ng Major Depression para di ka pinagtatawanan !
Ricky alam mo, kung ikukumpara ka kay Miriam, isa ka lang insekto! Paano mo nasabi na si Miriam ay laos? Di sana siya nanalo ulit bilang senador kung hindi siya sikat. Sigurado ako na ikaw ang may Personality Disorder at Major Depression. Tapusin mo muna ang iyong elementary education bago ka magsalita ng ganyan hahahah.
Miriam is highly qualified na maging Chief Justice. She is recognised by the United Nations as one of the Experts of International Law in the world.
Kung hindi man siya naging Chief Justice, surely she will make it to the presidency ngayong darating na 2010. At isa ka sa mga aalisin niya sa lipunan upang mabawasan ang mga taong katulad mo hahahah.
sana ganito din ako ka involved like these peeps here, just that i can’t relate to politics…so saD!:C
Yes! I strongly believe that senator Miriam can still make the best of her performance as a senator of the land. I feel her motherly sound and action. She is good senator….mga kababayan let us not judge her like that she is crazy, etc. Because we are not God, let us wait our time that God judge us. Because God is genius unlike us.
I tell you frankly, without her in the senate, senate really tedious, lausy. Maganda ngang nandiyan ang senator kong Miriam because she can be a lecturer or Prof. to all senators specially to the new one’s because most of them are out of tune. Buti nga sakanila….God Bless nalang sa mga senator na atik-atik…….thank you
Ricky kawawa ka talaga..
Kung sa ilong ni miriam, kulangot ka lang..
You must be proud somehow of having miriam born as filipino.. or else lahat ng pinoy siguro kagaya mo..
Ulihi nalang buli mo kay daw baho gid tae..