No backbone.

I am most amused recently by the news of the BN (Barisan Nasional to non Malaysians) big wigs jumping on the blog bandwagon, after it was announced that BN lost the cyberwar.

It's like the MasterCard ad, where the tagline is priceless, as prior to the election, the bloggers were heaped with insults. Now, everyone in the government is on it, and I am really curious what they have to say, or perhaps there isn't much to say anyways.

Then even more amusing is how the knifes are finally out in the UMNO circles asking Pak Lah to step aside. THis is politics to the max. Before its all for one and one for all, and now with a wee bit of encouragement, it's everyman for himself!

With this kind of leadership, I am glad that 60% of Malaysia's GDP is now in the hands of people not accustomed to such idiocy. Or is it?

We'll have to wait 5 years to see if my Philosophy prof was right in saying, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I certainly know it be true for the BN government.     

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Malaysian New Cabinet

I've actually quite neutral on this, but again a bit disappointed at the inclusion of one ex-Selangor MB who was caught with a bag full of cold hard cash in Australia years back.

Hasn't Pak Lah learnt anything from that episode?? The guy is tainted, worst still the only stupid reason he could come up with was that he couldn't understand the English used in the declaration form.

If someone that stupid can go on to become a Minister... oh well, we might as well have a cow being the PM since the IQ is not much better than that Minister.

Instead, I believe what the Opposition should do is to set up a shadow government, much like the UK and Australia. I believe this should keep the BN government on their toes. The same goes for those states where the Opposition is the state government and BN being the Opposition.

But the whole shadow government thing should be viewed through the lens of objectivity, and not just criticizing for the sake of criticizing. Good policies and execution should be lauded, and bad ones objected to.

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