Open rebellion in MCA?

Continuing on my yesterday’s post Has Ong KT 'Mahathir-ised' Dr Ling? the Ling faction, now to be distinguished from the Ong KT faction, has openly and insubordinately defied the MCA President's pronouncement of the tangkap basah scandal of Chua Soi Lek as not a political plot.

Would this be an example of MCA's born-again democratic practice or a case of 'what to do, survival mah!'?

In typical Chinese poetic sarcasm, young Ling Junior shot back at Ong KT: "If lightning strikes, certainly it is from the sky. If this is not a political plot, then tell me what it is?”

Malaysiakini reported in Ling Jr takes on MCA boss in war of words that:

The younger Ling had earlier attributed Chua’s downfall in the wake of a sex scandal to a 'political plot'.

Ka Ting, in rejecting Hee Leong’s call for an internal investigation into those behind recording and revealing sex scandal, had yesterday asked for any concrete proof to be submitted to the police.

Aiyah Ka Ting, you KNN one, if someone has ‘concrete proof’, would there be any need for an investigation?

He said that he too was ‘curious’ to know whether any top MCA leader was behind the controversy, but that the probe should be left to the police.

Bullsh*t, but anyway the detective books always tell us to look at ‘motive’. Yes, WHO would have THE MOTIVE to neutralise if not destroy an ambitious Chua Soi Lek? Who was sh*t scared of a far more competent, capable and confident trilingual CSL?

But as the news shockingly revealed, when a mere Youth Deputy Chief openly thumbed his nose at the MCA President, it sure as hell doesn’t do much for Ong KT’s standing in the party – aiyah Ka Ting, where got face now?

Hee Leong’s open war of words with Ka Ting must have been calculated to pile the pressure on the MCA President and put him on the backfoot; Ong's problem has been compounded by the fact that the Liong Sik loyalists are considerable in numbers. Perhaps this could have been the reason why Ong KT backed down from his earlier intention to head MCA Johor and instead allowed a Chua henchman to take over - look Malaysiakini, I don’t have to use the word ‘helm’ ;-)

The Johor State is the powerhouse of the MCA and party strategists believe that the man who rules Johor MCA is the man who rules MCA. Previously that was CSL - ah, the picture now becomes even more clear.

Well, what with the DAP and PKR finally agreeing on seats allocation in Penang, but with poor DAP making sacrificial concessions to a happy Tian Chua, the MCA may be in for a torrid general election a la 1969 when it was almost obliterated.

Mind you, the Tengku Abdul Rahman government and the Election Commission then were of a far superior standard of integrity, in fact light years ahead.

But never mind, back to the MCA - will CSL do a Bill Clinton ;-) (no pun intended) by becoming the MCA comeback kid?

As Otto Von Bismarck said: "Politics is the art of the possible."