Mahathir asserts being top dog of Pakatan

The political pressure on Mahathir in his eagerness to knock out Najib has been tremendous. He has finally succumbed to one.

Salleh Said Keruak, the Communications and Multimedia Minister, had questioned who, among the top three leaders, would have the final say in making a decision, which he said Pakatan Harapan (PH) had conveniently or deliberately failed to mention.

His naughty query followed PH naming Anwar Ibrahim as its de factor leader (an over-used illegitimate title but which means nothing now), Mahathir as its chairman and Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as president.

Incidentally, in most political party the chairperson is mainly for high level but very routine administration, eg. signing this and that, while the sec-general has the executive powers to make decisions, issue policies etc. To give it an analogy, the Chair would be said to be akin to a constitutional King while the sec-gen not unlike a PM, the person with the real power in the party.

But I am not too sure about PH's Chair versus its President, when Mahathir has been named the former and Wan Azizah the latter. And WTF is Anwar's role in PH as de facto leader?

I doubt Mahathir will act the role of a the coalition's "constitution-king", when we know he is more likely to 'rule' the coalition as an "absolute-king".

Now, where does that leave its President, Wan Azizah? As a coffee-maid?

Salleh Keruak taunted PH on its as yet un-named PM-deisgnate, saying: "Instead of just making promises, it would be better for the opposition pact to name its prime minister-designate first. It was strange for the chairman to answer that they will announce the eight prime ministers first, and decide on the seventh prime minister later."

"With a coalition like this, can we trust them to lead the country? Of course not, because the nation’s future is not to be gambled with.”

Salleh has undeniably touched a sore point in PH, because it's bizarre to name its futuristic 8th PM-designate when it dares not say who will be its immediate 7th PM-designate.

has Anwar been deserted by LKS & Azmin Ali?

It reflects badly on PH as a coalition whose component members do not trust each other.

Thus Mahathir, being the bulldozer we know him to be, seized the bull (no, not the bulldozer, wakakaka) by the horns and said, as reported by the MM Online,
I am top dog in Pakatan Harapan.

Yes, those were his own pompous arrogant grandiose words. When asked at a press conference if all three of the named leaders of PH are on equal footing in the coalition, he replied:

“In the hierarchy, I am the top dog there. We can’t have a country ruled by three prime ministers.”

Wakakaka. Maybe I read him wrong because he might have really meant it.

The other pressure tormenting him, and which he dared/dares not respond to, were Najib's naughty query about his (Mahathir) cruel condemnation of Anwar in the past.

Malaysiakini reported Najib saying ... people are now wondering if Mahathir still stands by his accusations against Anwar when the latter was sacked as deputy prime minister in 1998.

"(Mahathir) accused Anwar of committing acts against the order of nature (sodomy), and said Anwar had no morals and was not fit to lead the country."

"So the question in people's minds now is whether the accusation was wrong the from the beginning, or he is willing to sacrifice this principle for political ends, or there is some other trickery. All these he did not answer."

"As long as he does not answer, that means people would have doubts on this political drama that has no sincerity."

If Mahathir says his accusation of Anwar has been wrong from the start (which BTW Mahathir hasn't acknowledged yet, wakakaka) he will be accused of a humongous wrong done to Anwar in the past, and that his volte-face now is due only to his lack of principles for political gains.

But if Mahathir stands by his earlier condemnation of Anwar as a sodomite not fit to lead the country, then he will not only offend the Anwar family and pro-Anwar people in Pakatan, but also reveals his insincerity in supporting Anwar to be the PH's 8th PM-designate.

f**k Anwar 

Worse, Mahathir may not have any intentions of helping Anwar be freed and pardoned.

Mahathir has been silent thus far to Najib's cunning but quite legitimate question because he's caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea.

And Najib's cunning question is legitimate only because of Mahathir's own doing, that thus far, he (Mahathir) has stubbornly refused to apologise to Anwar and to admit he had 'fixed' Anwar up in 1998.

Either he is too proud to ever admit his wrongdoing or he still hates Anwar, or more likely, both - wakakaka.

He had even denied that in his recent interview with the British Guardian, he had supported Anwar to be PM. The Star Online reported in Dr M denies backing Anwar, says he can’t be PM from jail.