Give MCA the boot

My blogger friend Aspan Alias has written a very penetrating article. See here. If we can characterise the speech given by the BN chairman, we can likely say it’s a speech with all the gegak gempita and goga. With all the pomp and aplomb and browbeating.

The problem here is: the people voting for us are not only those in the dewan. Those in the dewan number a miniscule portion of the voting masses. The voting masses are those who have to incur rising commodity prices and petrol and those who are revolted and repulsed by the cancerous corruption that has permeated all levels of our country’s governance.

If there’s value in the speech, it is because it meant more for the mosquito BN parties — the parties who have nothing. They’d better sing to the tune of Shirley Bassey’s famous hit.

The Gerakan, the PPP, the MIC. For them, the speech may be uplifting. These are hoping for the crumbs for having something is better than nothing. The PPP’s Kayveas @ KVS Maniam wants only a ministerial post. That would be his personal fin-de siècle. (End-of-his life chapter, the climax of his climaxes). Koh Tsu Koon will be eternally grateful if he can have a safe seat. His loss of Penang has exposed the emptiness of his rule over Penang those years. These are the people who get wet dreams during the daytime.

Meanwhile, the mother to the Penang Gerakan Youth head in Penang is a fan of Anwar Ibrahim. She never misses the Permatang Pauh feller, sodomy charges notwithstanding. What can we do if some people derive pleasure from pain? What do you call this? Sadomasochism? One person derives pleasure from giving pain to the public; the public gets high from being pained by that person. How can Gerakan even win Penang again?

So Najib’s spirited talk can only bring cheers to the mosquito parties.

The MCA would have none of that. They don’t want Umno to big-brother them. They want to decide equally. Chua Soi Lek’s MCA flails against anything Umno these days. Decision-making at the Umno supreme council, the 30 per cent wealth owned by the Malays, but never on who owns the 70 per cent wealth. Indeed with everything Umno has accomplished, does and will do.

So why do we keep the MCA around anymore? Send it to pasture and let’s see what those MCA ministers without office and governmental power can do. Let’s see what Ng Yen Yen can do in Raub or Liow the unhealthy health minister can do. By the way, why hasn’t he been given the big stick for allowing dengue fever to reach epidemic levels and he hasn’t come out openly about it. What happens to the millions of ringgit purchases for the H1N1 antidote when the disease is under control? Why did he insist H1N1 is still around as if to justify the millions of ringgit spent to purchase the medicine?

Since the MCA cannot deliver anything to the BN, it should be let loose. Probably it’s time for Umno and BN to cultivate allegiance with other Chinese-centric parties. Or from the Chinese directly. They are a practical and pragmatic lot. Just show and implement what they want and the MCA is irrelevant.

The bigger problem is with Najib himself. Is he made of sterner constitution to have that fortitude to tell the MCA, go and fly kites? He says different things to different audiences. To the Malays there is no one who loves the Malay more than he does. To the nons, he is the quintessential liberal, accommodating and inclusive.

He wants to be all things to all people. I don’t know what term people use to describe such a personality. But the term that is widespread now is ihelpyouyouhelpme personality. Maybe they should add this to the psychology lexicon.

The Umno president can remain to be the benevolent father figure. But let him be surrounded by people with sterner stuff who are not afraid to do battle with the likes of Chua Soi Lek.

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