Someone once said that “politics makes strange bedfellows.” For Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco it’s, “I’ll screw you, you screw me and together let’s screw the nation.” There’s a better word than “screw,” but I wouldn’t want to offend the sensibilities of the growing readership of this humble blog.

Gloria and Danding don’t only make strange bedfellows, they make it sleazy as well. Like pornography, this one has its victims and they happen to be the whole Philippine justice system!

It is alleged, and it’s difficult not to believe it, that Gloria and Danding conspired to have Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. impeached. The President dangled court cases against Danding to have him and his party ally with hers. The exchange deal was Justice Davide, with whom Danding has an axe to grind.

Davide is the sacrificial lamb. After risking life and reputation to legitimize Gloria’s assumption to the presidency, he’s no longer needed as Gloria has been virtually endorsed as supreme leader by the visit of George W. Bush and the Philippines’ inclusion into the UN Security Council.

“Santa Barbara!,” as my uncle would exclaim in moments of incredulity. The thing is, it’s again the ugly traditional politician mentality that Filipinos are stupid and can be fooled.

Not anymore. That’s exactly the reason why Joseph Estrada was ousted and Gloria entrusted with leadership. Now she’s out to screw the nation by shoving it up the Supreme Court, the last bastion of democracy in this topsy-turvy nation we call the Philippines. And against Davide, a soft-spoken man even when he’s angry.

In a televised interview he called the impeachment plotters in Congress “evil.” That’s an understatement. They’re an orgy of nation wreckers under the direction of the power-lusting duo of Gloria and Danding. They should be booted out of Congress next election … that is if we would still have a Congress.

The Philippines just might drown in their sleaze.