Noynoying or Noynoyism--the state of doing absolutely nothing

In case of a supervening event, who will ascend the highest rungs of power if both the President and the Vice President are incapacitated of holding office? According to the Constitution, it is the Senate President who succeeds, and if he is also incapacitated, the Speaker of the House.

No where is there a provision which says that the Supreme Court's Chief Justice would actually be a viable constitutional replacement. 

However, during the time of former Chief Justice Reynato Puno, suggestions flew high and thick, about a plan to install the Chief Justice at the top. At the height of calls for Gloria's resignation, people entertained the idea of the Chief Justice as head of government, a government not necessarily like this existing one, but a different political animal altogether. 

I am referring to suggestions before of establishing a Council of State which is imagined to be the ruling power in a revolutionary government. Meaning, proponents of this plan imagined striking Gloria with another coup cloaked as a revolution, and entirely erasing the government and supplanting it with a revolutionary government. Under a revolutionary government, anything is possible. It's like rebooting the entire system and setting it to zero. 

Those whose ideas of change rests in surgical operations think this is the best option there is for change to really occur in our lifetimes. Imagine the opportunity of really changing things for the better by erasing some of the anti-people provisions of this Constitution and having the power to unilaterally cleanse the bureaucracy of misfits. You not only manage to oust the Most Corrupt Power--you also secure the very future of this country by changing the Basic Charter.

Of course, this did not happen since elections occurred and the people reportedly elected in an overwhelming fashion, President Noynoy Aquino. Nearing three years in office, and you have a country embroiled in very serious troubles: skyrocketing oil prices, consumers losing the value of their peso and food stuffs distancing themselves from the reach of consumers faster than an increase in monthly wages. 

Above all these, we have right now a government willing to sell all its assets to the right price just to generate revenues for its existence. This government is on a selling mode. Instead of using its monies to build industries that will last a lifetime and secure the futures of many, this government is scampering and looking for buyers for services which this government is supposed to give to its constituents. 

This is what people meant when they say "noynoying" or "Noynoyism"---the state of doing absolutely nothing.

" Leave everything to the fates", or " Let's see where this will lead to"--are oft-repeated lines of this administration. There is no assurance that this is the final version of this Executive Order or this is the final construction of the Executive in deference to an existing legislation. 

There is a perception really that things have really worsened that this administration does not know what to do anymore. We are in deep shit, but, we are not being told the real situation because this administration fears the worst---an outburst of emotions in the streets. 

Do we need another rebooting, the kind that would really test our wills and would eventually lead us to the right path?

Noynoying--the new form of governance

What better way to describe what this government is doing than parody the very popular photo of Noynoy in a pensive mood? That photo, which was used during the 2010 elections, became somewhat a symbol, an attraction if you wish, to convince the middle classes that Pnoy is the "one", a some sort of Pinoy Obama, who has the skills and the wherewithal to push this country into progress.

Now, two years and a half into office, and nothing seems to move at all, except perhaps the cash registers of Big Business who is now cashing in on the somewhat catatonic state of this government. Big Business suffered under Gloria, since only those fair-haired boys who are used to the wheeling and dealing of an elite mafia, benefited from the largesse.

Malacanang tried to mitigate the effects of this latest tirade against the President by releasing photos showing, again, a President, reportedly busy reading and signing stuff. This is no lazy president, says Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda. This is a working president. 

Yeah, true, this President is probably working but for whom? For whose interest is this President interested on fulfilling? Is it the interest of Big Oil players who continue to rake in billions of dollars worth of profits by exploiting the Oil deregulation law?

Is this President interested on knowing what government projects are to be given to his Big Business associates and what projects are still to be planned and again, be given to close business associates.

Seems like Noynoy and his cohorts are busy preparing government for sale to whoever is interested.

That's why Noynoy is interested on shaking up the business climate, like a petty baron does in his small fief.

What Pnoy is forgetting or is consciously unmindful of, is the suffering of his people. The people is supposed to be his boss, and what I know  bosses is that they are supposed to be pampered.

Pnoy is really busy, busy on knowing what other interesting things government has to be sold to Big Business. While he's busy, Pnoy has forgotten his initial vow when he accepted the people's verdict.