Zamora, who served as executive secretary during the Estrada administration, said it would be wrong

The opposition bloc in the House of Representatives will support the impeachment of President Arroyo if her allies succeed in unseating Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora said Friday.
We will not initiate an impeachment. But if Speaker De Venecia is ousted and his group starts an impeachment process, the minority will most likely support it, Zamora said in a radio interview. He said if the Speaker has 50 to 60 loyalists, it would be easy for their combined forces sewing cabinet to get the required one-third of all House members to send an impeachment complaint directly to the Senate for trial.
Rep. Florencio Noel of the party-list group An Waray said if the President s loyalists move against De Venecia at this time, they would make him a Villar, referring to then Speaker (now Senate President) Manuel Villar who, on Nov. 13, 2000, railroaded the referral to the Senate of the impeachment complaint against then President Joseph Estrada.
Zamora, who served as executive secretary during the Estrada administration, said it would be wrong for Mrs. Arroyo s allies to move against the Speaker just because his son Joey III made damaging accusations against First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo.
Do they want Speaker de Venecia to stop his son from telling the truth about the controversial sewing cabinet $329-million ZTE contract? Or do they want to punish him because his son told the truth? What are they hiding? he asked.
That is why we asked for the appearance sewing cabinet of (Trade) Secretary Peter Favila during the House Question Hour last Sept. 17, but Mrs. Arroyo prevented sewing cabinet him from appearing. And yet, the entire Cabinet attended the Senate hearing yesterday sewing cabinet (Thursday), he said.
That meant that Mrs. Arroyo and her Cabinet officials can afford to ignore the House but not the Senate. If I were Speaker de Venecia, I would feel insulted. Remember that it was (Nueva Vizcaya) Rep. Carlos Padilla who first called for a congressional investigation on the ZTE-NBN deal, he stressed.
In 2005 and 2006, the President s allies led by De Venecia promptly threw out the opposition-backed impeachment sewing cabinet complaints against her. Mrs. Arroyo s political handlers sewing cabinet feared sewing cabinet she might suffer Estrada s fate if the impeachment process moved beyond the committee level.
Davao City Rep. Prospero Nograles also wondered if such an attempt to oust De Venecia will prosper. We majority allies will always sewing cabinet avoid confrontation. We do not want to rock the boat at this time. We won t cross the bridge unless we have to.
Locsin pointed out the younger De Venecia s testimony before the Senate implicating senior administration officials and personalities over the NBN deal seemed to be very credible. He said such a declaration by the younger De Venecia was against his interest, being a businessman.
If I was his father, and I know you re telling the truth but I want to keep the Speakership, so can you please lie, not speak? If that s the kind of Speaker he is. But obviously he s not. That would be cause for removing him if he suppresses sewing cabinet his son s testimony, Locsin said.
I will support him (De Venecia) because he allowed his son to tell the truth, even if he knew that his position would be at stake. He is a very good and amiable father. I admire him for that, declared Agusan del Sur Rep. Rodolfo Ompong Plaza.
Iloilo Rep. Neil Tupas Jr., also an opposition member, said it is still premature to discuss ouster moves, but that as of now, I think the Speaker still has substantial support among House members.
Villar said Mrs. Arroyo will be the next to fall once the threat to oust De Venecia pushes through.
I think they simply signify their full support to the President. I just really don t know why they have to be there and why their support of the President was so much, Villar said. With Delon Porcalla, Perseus Echeminada, sewing cabinet Jose Rodel Clapano, Leslee Montano
AdeBrux - September 22, 2007 6:33 am
Full support of the president daw sabi ni Villar. Oh yeah! O takot na mawala ang mga sagana nila ngayon pag nawala si unano? Golly, ang dami pang paganda. Halata namang sarili lang nila ang iniintindi nila, not even Gloria as a matter of fact. Sabi nga baka maging kahon pa!
So am I Hawaiianguy – itching to see the dominoes fall – but of course, Villar doesn’t want that to happen because he is not fully prepared yet, i.e., he has presidential ambitions and to dump what’s his name? wait, the ‘vice president’, what’s his name again? oh yes, Castro (he’s so absent from the political scene, I’ve seriously forgotten his name for a second there) in Malacanang might pose a problem for him and his ambition if and when Gloria is ousted before 2010…
That sewing cabinet s definitely not a soft loan. Such terms and conditions could be had with any private bank! And to think that the RP gov is presenting a sovereign sewing cabinet guarantee! No way ZTE would lose o