Arroyo’s Sona digs vs Roxas flatters LP

Senator Manuel Roxas II scored good points from the jab thrown against him by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her State of the Nation Address (Sona) Monday, the senator’s party mates in the Liberal Party (LP) said.

Muntinlupa Representative Rufino Biazon said that the President made Roxas appear as the most formidable among all the opposition presidential candidates when she singled him out in her tirades.

”He was picked out, it only shows the Mar (Roxas) is rally the opposition candidate because he warranted enough space and time to be included in the President’s Sona,” Biazon said in an interview after the Sona.

The congressman said he believes that the tirade on Roxas was good for the LP stalwart and actually earned him points.

Representative Lorenzo Tanada III, another LP member, said he welcomed the tirades on Roxas because “it shows that Senator Roxas must be doing the right thing.”

”If Senator Roxas’s fiscalizing action moves the President to do something right, then the potshots to Senator Roxas is worth it,” Tanada added.

In her speech, Arroyo took a dig at Roxas for criticizing her over the implementation of the Cheaper Medicines Act.

“To those who want to be president, this advice: If you really want something done, just do it, do it hard, do it well, don’t pussy-foot, don’t say bad words in public,” Arroyo said.

The President was apparently referring to Roxas’s cuss words at an anti-Charter change rally early this year.