Is the Speaker being objective or partisan

ARCHIVES 2009

By admin-s On Dec 16, 2009

By talking this way, is the Speaker inferring his preference that the opposition should just keep quiet, roll over and comply, and by extension the rakyat of Malaysia?

By Lee Wee Tak

While RPK has his own piece of mind about the absent 20 MPs, I am attracted by this.

“The opposition should not have taken advantage of the situation when there weren’t enough BN MPs,” he said when commenting on the narrow 66-63 approval for Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s first Budget as prime minister.

Whether PR has a tactical decision to make it is up to them.

By talking this way, is the Speaker inferring his preference that the opposition should just keep quiet, roll over and comply, and by extension the rakyat of Malaysia?

and we do not call opposition opposition for nothing. Remember Najib’s infamous “MPs cannot vote according to their conscience” remark following Shahrir Samad’s agreement with Lim Kit Siang’s motion?

If BN’s MPs are just towing the line ala-feudal fashion, did Teresa Kok get a hairdryer from Lim Kit Siang for below?

Ucapan Perbahasan Bajet 2010 Oleh Teresa Kok, Ahli Parlimen Seputeh Pada 3 November 2009 di Dewan Rakyat

Datuk yang diPertua, memandangkan saya hanya diberi 20 minit untuk berucap dalam perbahasan bajet 2010, saya ingin terus menumpu kepada isu-isu yang dekat pada hati saya.

1.Pembangunan Teknologi Hijau: Feed-in Tariff Adalah Penting Datuk yang diPertua, di antara cadangan yang dibentangkan dalam ucapan bajet Perdana Menteri merangkap Menteri Kewangan, saya amat bersetuju dengan cadangan kerajaan yang memberi penggalakan dan insentif kepada pelabur teknologi hijau, kerana penggunaan teknologi hijau merupakan ‘trend” atau hala tuju kebanyakan negara di dunia ini sebagai langkah untuk menghadapi krisis tenaga.

The Speaker’s rant continues…

“It should not be a question of catching the government with their pants down because that would not be a gentlemanly and honourable kind of thing,” Pandikar explained to reporters in his chambers here.

He added that Parliament is a gentlemen’s club for both the opposition and the government to debate questions of national interest.

– gentlemen’s club? What has the Speakers done about the infamous “bocor-gate”?

The Speaker then did not raise a fuss and only after much public outrage, Bung Mokhtar and the other offender sat glumly next to Sharizat and apologised, “if only people are offended and not to the opposition” (correct me if my memory is playing tricks on me, there has been too many conditional apologies from Barisan National leaders, except Ahmad Ismail, not a product of SRJKC)

– and what about the UMNO Youth’s jantan action on Karpal Singh