Complaints have since been filed by aggrieved OFWs against Bertiz at the House ethics committee. For his outrageous behavior at the airport, the House, quick to protect one of its own, is giving him a mere reprimand. He had earlier complained of chest pains and had managed hospital confinement—an old trick in which seasoned politicians like Speaker Gloria Arroyo, a former president, are experts.
And here we are in the political silly season. It will once again be made painfully obvious that, but for a small number of esteemed lawmakers, Congress, its two current leaders each with a checkered past, continues to be a mockery. In the House, for example, most members represent vested interests, family businesses, landed clans, and political dynasties, and the party-list system has been bastardized as easy entry for billionaire businessmen (for one, 1-Pacman Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero), privileged progeny (Arroyo’s elder son Rep. Mikey Arroyo of Ang Galing Pinoy, a party-list group for security guards), and, yes, types like Bertiz.
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