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Talk about stupidity...

Yesterday, Puerto Rico Senate President Kenneth McClintock (NPP, at large) forwarded five letters asking Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (PDP) to withdraw five of his nominations for cabinet posts. Among these is Roberto Sanchez Ramos, nominated by the Governor to head the Island's Department of Justice. None of the nominees have been to a confirmation hearing.

Apart from the anti-democratic disposition of not even allowing the formality of rejecting the nominees in a Senate's hearing, the mere fact of the letters' timing is quite revealing. They were sent at 6:15 on the evening of March 10 after all TV news headlines had passed. He got his wish; one only has to take a look at the headlines of all major newspapers on March 11th:

El Nuevo Día (also here)

A complete account is also available in Primera Hora, also here. Notice the stupidy of senator Jorge de Castro Font's declaration at the end of the article.

Also read El Vocero's damning editorial.

The driving purpose behind these letters is mere political stupidity. Senator McClintock is in a precarious position in his own New Progressive Party, a political organization, which endeavors to make Puerto Rico the 51st state of the United States and now dominated by political activists with fascist inclinations. In the past three months he and other senators from his own party have been subject to tremendous pressure by an NPP faction who wants him to resign as senate president in order to leave the way open for former governor Pedro Rosselló (now a Senator for the northern district of Arecibo) to occupy the position.

As everyone is more or less aware Pedro Rosselló and the NPP's mob that follows him around only want the Senate presidency to block every major initiative that comes from the governor's office without so much as a second look. All part of the unnerving arrogance of this defeated politician who is incapable of being without power.

But if Dr. Rosselló's actions are unnerving, Senator McClintock's simply defy reason. It seems that the senator is tired of consensus politics and trying to appease the mob in the NPP in order to preserve his post as Senate President. Acting in this manner evidences a certain political desperation that in the end will amount to naught but the further weakening of his position and the alienation of voters that do not share or are flabbergasted by the actions of the NPP.

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