With the leadership credibility of PGMA damaged to the fore, she, as usual, takes every opportunity to fix it. We have noticed the covert control in her latest photo ops with children for the celebration of the World Breastfeeding Week in August. It feels refreshing, but not her words that agonize on her predicament.

Of course she’s devastated. It appears that whatever she does after the Gloriagate fiasco veer to the unfortunate. She has not met the expectations of the CBCP, the civil society. What keeps the masses out of the streets is their tolerance to their own plight in order to keep their body and soul together. They pass it on the experience, a nightmare.

One after the other the opposition builds its impeachment chips to get her before pro-administrations legislators who seem to languish in retardate gusto their political affinity to the powers-that-be than to the people they represent, a peg in a round hole, you may say. This is normal though to the recalcitrant, a step is a toil and to walk more is behaving like laborers they are not accustomed to do. It’s awful when you’re in the clouds, you see minute landmarks rather than branches bending to the wind and mothers strolling in glee with children at the park. It’s just that.

But the real score and its gradual unfolding in our midst is more disturbing. That majority of us don’t believe in La Excellencia is the very quantitative basis she has to use in repairing her distorted image in order to gain some grounds, which is overtly personal. In this case, the impersonal suffers, I mean the official functions.

An instance evidently seen in government is the preoccupation of the alter-egos of PGMA doing every known job to counter the moves of her opponents. Naturally, at the end of the day, exhausted energies are evaluated in that regard with activities of legitimate department receding at the background. The trekking of accomplishments mostly laggardly done by central office subordinates, if by luck there are any, do dredge down to their channels in cities and towns at a suspect level. Take every other subalterns and intimate sympathizers of La Excellencia and their office manhours plus resources at superior or near-excellent conditions. You can attribute millions of pesos being lost in a day. For what it’s worth, government service becomes inutile in an eager patience to keep one in the choicest seat of Malacañang.

We heard it from PGMA herself when referring to her enemies as “those who are always in need of money.” That’s it. How do you react to that? You should bet more and there are proofs of them right in the halls of Congress. Congressman are being bought to nod, shake head, and say something.

My gosh, this is a terrifying downtrend. And the terrified poor count their loose change at night hoping that it will be longer so that they can keep the coins for a little while till dawn. The bad thing is when there are no longer of this dearth of money to hold.