Wish it were…well…oops!?#@…!!

The festive mood of the holiday season is in the air. The whippy breeze bristling through the rubber tree in my backyard tells it all–cold and persistently strong–normal breeze during this time of the year.

I couldn’t stand it and not with a recent bout with fish poisoning. Perhaps this how some lawmakers feel when tasked to do what is right in the consideration and review of substantive measures over the last six years.

But, alas, it was more important then to ascertain reinventing Romeo in hopes of catching an unsuspecting Juliet. My buddy Mike Geisinger calls it “stylin` it, dude!” I knew then that we will be in for a long ride with alleged and vacuous leadership. And my buddy is right when he uttered, “They’re stylin` it, dude!” Agreed. But I wasn’t enamored by all the “stylin” for in the process they missed the train, completely.

There was hopelessness in every corner of this American archipelago not so much for the discrimination leveled against us under Uncle Allen’s agenda, but the obvious inability of leadership to read a clearly legible map they’ve stared at for, well, six years. Even I came to the brink of throwing in the towel, but there’s a thin ray of hope in the back burner yelling faintly, “Hold on, someone is coming along!”

What really bothered my conscience in the adolesency with which the previous legislative leadership has handled substantive issues is the delay to mitigate the onslaught of the Asian crisis, not to mention their role in fueling a raging fire! In other words, for every year that they failed the people of these isles, the obvious delay translates to three years. In total, this adolescency in leadership (if one could call it that) is not less than 18 years.

How sad that as ASEAN countries affix their digital signatures on cooperation pertaining to e-commerce born by the Information Technology, we’re still talking about federalization, incoherent legislation on minimum wage, or, in short, trivia that seem to be the hallmark of previous legislative leadership. Strangely, too, this cabal has the gall to seek higher public office hardly wary that they just don’t have the wherewithal to lead the governance.

But for all the longer than lifetime frustrations that I had to endure, that faint light at the end of the tunnel has brighten up by the day. It went through both chambers and is on its way to the chief executive. At least, the Warrior of Hope has forced the entrenched upper chamber to give its ascent on the investment incentive measure to reboot a steadily deepening local economic crisis. What a sigh of relief that this measure finally made it through the dark chamber of the Senate.

Perhaps this legislation ought to enable others, other than the Luggage Squad, to hold on final decisions to close shop. Yes, I also ask that you give yourselves the opportunity to review the new measure. I am sure that your voice has finally been heard. Well, so far the weather has been damp and wet. The blue skies have been covered by fearfully dark grayish cloud.

Well, I say Si Yuus Maase` Speaker Fitial for your persistence to push through such measure and other laws that have at best, encouraged closure of more than 2000 businesses; at worst, a major decline in revenue generation. Again, Si Yuus Maase` yan ghilisow!

Strictly a personal view. John S. DelRosario Jr. is publisher of Saipan Tribune.