Anwar’s Crumbling Credibility
Citizen Times
First, he tried to topple Dr Mahathir Mohamed, and failed. Then he tried to topple Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and failed. Finally, he tried to topple Najib Abdul Razak, and failed as well.
Even as Malaysia faces crisis after crisis, Anwar Ibrahim has now decided to set his sights even lower, and focus all his energies on toppling Khalid Ibrahim. Good chance he will fail there too.
Anwar’s credibility is crumbling almost as fast as his integrity is disintegrating.
Anwar’s announcement that Wan Azizah will be the next menteri besar immediately brought to mind Sept 16, 2013.
It seems that once again, Anwar is bluffing. Instead of getting the numbers and then creating hype, he is creating hype in a sad attempt to get numbers. Once again, it is shoot first and ask questions later.
Anwar’s hope for Sept 16 was that if he could make everyone believe he had the numbers to take over the federal government by the crossover of parliamentarians, then more and more parliamentarians would join his cause and make the myth he was selling a reality.
When Sept 16 came, all of Malaysia saw Anwar revealed to be the fraud that he was – that he never had the numbers, and that he was doing nothing more than gambling with the nation’s future.
Tearing Pakatan apart
Instantly after Anwar announced PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the next menteri besar, PAS Selangor denied it had agreed to this move.
This slams home the point that every anti-Khalid effort since the Kajang Move has achieved nothing except to tear Pakatan Rakyat apart.
At a Pakatan meeting that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang (right) chose not to attend, Anwar failed to win the Islamist party’s endorsement for Wan Azizah, and was only able to achieve a joint statement saying “we’ll talk about it”.
PAS is very understandably asking why it should support PKR’s candidate (especially given how divided PKR is at this point), when it could very well push to take on the menteri besar’s position.
PAS appears to have had enough of browbeating and bullying by an ‘ally’ it sees as being all talk and no substance – the same party that PAS always has to support on the ground in elections because of PKR’s persistently hopeless or non-existent party machinery.
What would happen if PAS and PKR continue to be at loggerheads? Or if PAS decides to take the extreme measure of uniting with Umno against PKR and DAP on the question of the menteri besar?
Then, throughout Malaysia, Pakatan dies an early death at the tender age of six years.
All about increasing payout to water firm?
Already, as it is, one of the worst parts of this crisis is having to read sense from people we are so accustomed to spewing nonsense on. It is heart wrenching to see that, for once in their lives, it is the likes of Ibrahim Ali, Hassan Ali, Shamsuddin Lias (Umno opposition leader in Selangor), and even Utusan Malaysia taking the right side.
I’m sure some will be against what they say merely out of habit, but if we look at this objectively, it is painfully obvious that Pakatan leaders are bending over backwards to justify the unjustifiable.
(I have already written no less than six articles addressing all the key issues used to criticise Khalid and ‘justify’ his removal.)
A theory that this coup d’etat has a lot to do with PKR favouring certain players in the water restructuring exercise that I alluded to some time ago is now breaking with even greater detail.
Raja Petra Kamarudin has been wrong about a great many things, but he has been right on some; and I’m betting he is right on this one as well.
Consistent with this view is Rafizi Ramli’s blatant statement that the valuations of the water deal will change. I will bet significant sums of money that in this change, one water concessionaire will get a higher payout.
