Omelette du Mahathir

The Star Online reports today (extracts):

Will I be like General MacArthur, saying "I came through and I shall return"? 

ALOR SETAR: Outgoing Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir claims that the move to oust him began 18 months ago.

Mukhriz declared he would continue to serve the people and remain loyal to Umno and he hoped the party would undergo a “drastic and dramatic transformation”.

He said he was throwing in the towel as the Regency Council informed him that he had lost the majority support of the State Legislative Assembly.

Poor Mukhriz. As I commented over at M2D, I personally believe Mukhriz is a nice bloke but nonetheless I'm glad he has been ousted, only because I want to see the real power behind him, daddy Mahathir, lose.

Hey, you can't make an omelette without breaking the egg. To rephrase, you can't make an omelette du Mahathir without breaking the Mukhriz egg, wakakaka.

Omelette du Loaf, wakakaka

Mukhriz's 'political' blood as collateral damage 

My dear dear Muhriz, it's your dad who has been the cause of your fall.

No? You don't think so? You think it's Najib?

Recall how after the 2008 GE you were appointed the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry while your Youth Head (KJ) sat by the side with his duck's egg, wakakaka.

How did you think you were appointed? I hope you don't believe it was your good looks? Wakakaka.

Recall in the pre-election nomination to be Langkawi's representative in the 2008 GE, 85 out of 91 branches in that constituency rejected you, yet you were still given a seat in Jerlun to contest. Indeed, given this, I wonder at your popularity in Kedah.

And guess how you joined the Airborne, wakakaka, to subsequently become MB Kedah?

2013 - oopsie, looks like I'm going to land on top of Ahmad Bashah's head

hope he won't bear a grudge, wakakaka

I believe Najib was trying to mollify your dad. But your dad has been a man who didn't/doesn't know when to give and take. He's the ultimate kiasu, or as RTA would have said, an ultrakiasu, a man who wants, nay make that, demands to win all the time, because he believes not only he is always right but he must be obeyed kau kau.

Mahathir's pompous hubris even extends to declaring that both AAB and Najib were bad choices as his "successorS" (note the word's plurality).

In August last year TMI published Dr Mahathir apologises for choice of successors. TMI reported (relevant extracts):

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the country’s longest serving prime minister for 22 years, today apologised for the choice of his successors, saying that he didn't know any better then. "Manalah saya tahu waktu pilih, saya minta ampun, minta maaflah pada semua (How did I know when I made the choice, I am sorry and apologise to all)," he said. [...]

... Dr Mahathir also took a dig at his immediate successor, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, as well as current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, without mentioning any names.

Omelette du 'Kepala Batas'

stuffed with potatoes for energy, wakakaka 

"We can only guess, when someone is known as 'Mr Clean', we choose lah, but once he entered the arena, he became dirty."

"So I tried to find a cleaner replacement, who knew, this new guy's idea (would be) 'cash is king' and if you give people money, they will like you.”

In a veiled attack at Najib, Dr Mahathir said: "But in giving money to people, we must have money. If don't have, can do business, but not if we are holding a position (in government), but stealing, can.”

His remarks drew laughter and applause from some 4,000 students, lecturers and the public.

Hadn't it been wonderful that even at 90 years old, Mahathir could still find the words to entertain 4000 students (a group who once hated him when he was PM) to such an extent that they laughed and applauded at his politically-titillating jabs at both AAB and Najib?

What he had said was he found to his surprise 'Mr Clean' (AAB) became 'dirty' once he became PM. OK then, so what did Mahathir do on discovering AAB wasn't the 'successor' he had wanted?

In his own words, "So I tried to find a cleaner replacement .....".

[Note: I was informed that his hatred for AAB had more to do with their sons than the crooked bridge, wakakaka]

The 'replacement' he sought for the ousted AAB was of course been Najib who has, he subsequently found to his shock again, engaged in 'stealing'.

Thus Mahathir apologized (with his usual sarcasm of course) for his choice of 'successors'.

Wait, don't bother me by asking me why Mahathir did not apologize for his many acts which hurt us, scared us, horrified us and disgusted us, like the dismissal of Lord President Salleh Abas, Ops Lalang, unilaterally declaring Malaysia as a fundamentalist Islamic state, Forex, Maminco, BB, MAS and various other lamentable acts and events.

I don't want to go into those right now as they have been dealt with endlessly by so many other bloggers, reporters, journalists (including foreign ones) and a host of websites and news portals.

But while everyone would acknowledge it's an undeniable fact AAB had been his "final" successor, (note my use of the word "final"? Sorry Mr Manmanlai, wakakaka again), I wonder how Najib became his 2nd succesor?

According to Mahathir's own words, Najib was considered as a'cleaner replacement' for a 'dirty' AAB.

It's something we can derive directly from Mahathir's declaration, "So I tried to find a cleaner replacement .....".

Those ridiculous words tell us about his flabbergasting hubris and twisted mindset, that Najib had been his 2nd "successor", one whom he "found" to replace AAB.

Those words show that the man didn't (and probably still doesn't) consider himself as a retired PM, but as a PM in political mufti*, someone who rules Malaysia in perpetuity.

[* mufti as in dress, not Muslim cleric, wakakaka]

Omelette 'Siapa Raja', wakakaka 

To him, AAB must have been only an acting caretaker sort of PM, or at best still his 'deputy', whom he could continue to dictate to, perhaps not on everything in running the government, but certainly on his pet issues and hobby horses, and likewise with Najib.

And didn't he complain at one time that Najib hadn't reported to him for 6 months?

Holy moley, a PM to report to him at regular intervals? Didn't that confirm his mindset as one who had believed he was still the de facto PM?

Yes, Najib as his 'successor' has failed to satisfy his 'expectations', though Najib tried to mollify him by making Mukhriz a deputy minister and at the same time did not appoint his bete noire, KJ the UMNO Youth Chief, as a minister, wakakaka.

It's not rocket science to know the reason behind the unprecedented non-appointment of the UMNO Youth boss as a minister by the PM when all along every UMNO Youth Chief has always been appointed as one.

[Now, haven't I mentioned above that his hatred for AAB had more to do with their sons (including s-i-l) than the crooked bridge, wakakaka]

Najib must have thought he'd nominate Mukhriz as MB Kedah as another mollifying act, but I suspect the greater ire was ignited by the perception Najib didn't do enough to boost Mukhriz into one of UMNO VP positions, without which the leadership distance between Mukhriz and the PM position is way way way too far.

Omelette 'A bridge too far' (for Mukhriz) , wakakaka

The amazing thing is he hadn't blamed himself for bringing Mukhriz into politics at such a late stage, and I can only guess it has been his invincible overconfidence that he, as (still) the most power man in both UMNO and Malaysia, could and would eventually make things tick in accordance with his wishes, including safe and mentored passage to the top for Mukhriz.

I suppose to him, the de facto reigning 'Emperor of Malaysia', a non-performing Najib, non-performing to his desires, must be removed!

But alas, as someone in Sungai Buloh would tell you, 'de facto' is one thing while 'de jure' is another, especially when the de jure person has direct and immediate access to party funds and control of the government apparatus, which he undoubtedly will use to his own betterment, wakakaka.

In the end, the 1MDB fiasco is just one of many excuses to remove Najib. This is not to say Najib is yet to be completely absolved from the dodginess associated with 1MDB, but let us put in perspective the real reason for Mahathir becoming such a "diligent guardian of governance" in Malaysia when we consider in context such sickening issues like Forex, Maminco, Perwaja, BB, MAS, and various scarey profligacy during his time, and of course not forgetting the humiliating dismissal of Salleh Abas, then Lord President of the judiciary.

Many inform me that that's all in the past and we should deal with the current problem, to wit, Najib. But wouldn't we say he had been chiefly responsible for most of the ills we are facing today, so how can we so easily brush aside his record and performance - it would be like ignoring Godzilla while we chase after the garden lizard.

Another of his attacks against Najib has been the resurrected Altantuyaa affair, where a convicted killer had been virtually 'beautified' and almost 'canonized' into a saint. Indeed, why weren't these raised before Mahathir's declaration's "So I tried to find a cleaner replacement ....."?

But far more important than Mukhriz's loss in Kedah, lies bare that realization that Mahathir no longer scares UMNO people. It would seem that 'Avarice' surpasses 'Awe', wakakaka, Indeed 'Cash is King'!

And I have no sympathy at all for the father.

Tunku Abdul Rahman's Alliance (Perikatan) Party

'someone' was sacked from it in 1969, wakakaka 

As I said at the start, I personally believe Mukhriz is a nice bloke but when someone starts to rock the Perikatan boat(BN predecessor, used here for its nautical characteristic, wakakaka), and rock it vigorously out of selfish petulance, surely some eggs would be broken.

Aiyah, I could have hatched nicely into a PM, wakakaka 

Even a very very tolerant kungfu master would only entertain a few free blows but not continuously because one lucky blow by the attacker would eventually penetrate through his defence and land him on the ground. He had to strike back and stop the ongoing assault. Najib is a kungfu master of political maneouvrings and intrigues, even more so than Mahathir, as the former is quietly sly, less openly aggressive and thus deadlier.

Grasshopper, to make an omelette, you need to break an egg 

Poor Mukhriz has been the collateral damage, not that the filial son hadn't been also publicly vocal against his party boss. 

I've to say I'm glad Mukhriz has been ousted, but only because I want to see the real power behind him lose. It annoys me when the father always gets his way, no matter how wrong he had been.

Yes, you can't make an omelette without breaking the egg. To rephrase, you can't make an omelette du Mahathir without breaking the Mukhriz egg, wakakaka.

Omelette de la Kedah

karn-neen-nare, semua 'dah jadi chop-suey liao, wakakaka