The Lims overdoing their act with PAS
(FMT) – The DAP leaders need to go slower with PAS as Lee Kuan Yew would have done with Umno given a second chance.
DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang and his son, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, have been virtually running amok even before the PAS Muktamar passed a motion without debate on withdrawing co-operation with DAP.
Guan Eng still shrieks hysterically at PAS almost on a daily basis. He seems to have difficulty in deciding where party politics ends and good government begins.
His old man appears to be suffering from verbal diarrhoea and keeps running to the computer throughout the day to dash off yet another piece against PAS.
The Muktamar motion was patently a tit-for-tat move following DAP’s earlier resolution withdrawing co-operation with PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang. PAS leaders have pointed out, not entirely without basis, that DAP withdrawing co-operation with Hadi was tantamount to withdrawing co-operation with PAS.
PKR meanwhile thinks that “silence is golden” although jailed Opposition Chief Anwar Ibrahim has expressed his concerns on the DAP-PAS feud and dashed off private messages to Kit Siang and Hadi.
If the Lims keep this up against PAS for much longer, Pakatan Rakyat supporters are likely to decide that Lim Senior has not only lost the plot but, even worse, was misleading Junior, who has been throwing tantrums in Penang because his administration still includes PAS members.
The state seats don’t belong to any party but the individuals who hold them. That’s the law. Penang doesn’t belong to the Lims for them to carry on with a strong sense of proprietorship. Even Lee Kuan Yew was not as terrible as the Lims and was extremely careful not to suffer from delusions of grandeur for no rhyme or reason.
The Lims prove that there can be such a thing as too much success for one’s own good or letting it all go to the head.
The PAS motion on DAP was patently symbolic especially since it was passed without debate. It’s probably not “binding” at all as the PAS Assembly does not have prerogative and discretionary powers.
That’s within PAS President Abdul Hadi’s domain and he doesn’t have to share such powers – read veto – with the Dewan Syura, an advisory body, or the Central Committee, which merely reports to him unless they take a vote.
