Turning bubur back to nasi?

The Malay Mail Online - To resolve Selangor crisis, Khalid says willing to be MB again

why shouldn't I flaunt it when I have it - I'm just damn good

For Khalid, a man who's despised by both DAP and to a lesser extent, PKR, to make such a daring proposal must mean he has as-yet-unidentified support.

Don't be so eager as to dismiss his wet yet not so wet dreams as a case of nasi dah jadi bubur, because a businessman, which Khalid is, doesn't make such a seemingly preposterous proposal unless he has done his sums.

To reiterate, obviously he has 'support' for him to believe he can return as the 'comeback kid'.

Let's follow his example and do some maths ourselves.

Numbers-wise, he is, I believe, assured of 12 UMNO ADUN and of course himself, which gives him 13, counting towards 29 in a DUN of 56.

The Mail reported that 'Khalid, who was sacked from PKR last year in a leadership putsch that cost him the mentri besar post, said, however, that he would only consider making a comeback if he wins a vote of confidence in the state assembly with a simple majority.'

And a simple majority is one, meaning he has the backing of 29 in the Selangor DUN of 56.

Based on the last MB selection turmoil, initiated by the rancid Kajang Satay Bull and coagulated by PAS merajuk-ish recalcitrancy, he is probably assured of 13 out of the 15 PAS ADUN, which adds up to a nice 26 in his quest to resume his Royal MB-ship.

I suspect Khalid may still have around 3 pro-Khalid ADUN in PKR itself who still support or will support him when they see the encouraging numbers. So that will give him what he needs, a simple majority of one in his 29, which will nicely kow-tim the MB situation for him.

Yes, Azmin Ali may be in dire danger!

Okay, it's unlikely he'll receive any DAP backing but WTF does he care if/when he has 29, the simple majority that he needs, as he has stated and must have already calculated.

And why won't DAP back him? See my 2013 post Selangor saga shows PKR's ketuanan mentality on how he had treated the DAP with a disrespect that was only possible by copious dosages of name dropping and a wee dram of ketuanan Melayu-ness.

Besides, if UMNO is involved, it'll be the death knell for DAP to be involved.

As for the palace, he has been a fave of HRH, and it's likely he won't meet any objection from the palace.

But we voters need to be aware Khalid Ibrahim is more of a businessman rather than a people's representative in the true sense of the latter, as had been evidenced by his early handling of the Grand Saga Toll Fiasco in 2008 when he was far more interested in the profits for the Toll Company than justice and service for the Cheras folks.

After all, didn't PSM describe him as an 'unfriendly Guthrie towkay' when Anwar Ibrahim parachuted him into the Ijok by-election. So it was a bit silly of me to expect him to act sympathetically towards the people of Cheras in the Grand Saga road toll debacle, when I should know by then a bourgeois like him would of course be more concerned about the road toll towkays, with him as a MB stating rather bizarrely that the state government must also take into consideration that the toll would be the source of revenue for the company.

Hmmm, what about those people of Selangor who had supported Pakatan?

That's what he was, has been, is and will be, a pure businessman, one who had been an 'unfriendly Guthrie towkay' who is good at making money for his company (Guthrie or the state of Selangor) and who deems himself answerable to ONLY his sponsor-major stakeholder (be this Dr M, Anwar Ibrahim or as he was last seen to have believed, HRH).

During the sad turbulent days immediately after the 2013 GE when the appointment of Selangor's MB for a fresh new term was in progress and criticisms of Khalid Ibrahim was flying high and low, wakakaka, one criticism was about him not listening to the Pakatan ADUNs on state issues.

He had then pompously replied via what was seen as a pathetic pretentious pseudo-presidential proclamation, that he "listened to criticisms from the people more than from party leaders and politicians".

That nonsense so riled DAP's Gobind Singh Deo who immediately 'urged' (a polite euphemism for 'f**king demand', wakakaka) the Selangor MB to bloody well clarify that statement.

Gobind went as far as to say Khalid had made a "very serious statement, which may have serious consequences", meaning Khalid either knew f**k all about democratic parliamentary process or had deliberately ignored that!

Gobind said: "Khalid must not take things for granted. I ask him to respond and clarify matters."

In fact I suspect Khalid might not be even conscious of the fact that he was nominated to be MB by Pakatan (not just the mere elected ADUNs) but by the parties' top leadership. Thus, in his (I suspect) lack of understanding of the party process or democratic process, he doesn't see his obligation to step down when told by his party to do so.

When DAP leaders went bonkers and tore off what little patches of hair they had left because of this politically bizarre and obdurate man, and condemned him as dishonourable in insisting on staying as MB despite losing the confidence of his party and the majority of the Pakatan pact, they were just pissing in the wind.

Yes, they were because Khalid Ibrahim did not see himself as a politician who had to abide by the rules of democratic political process. He didn't understand all that because, as we had suspected, he didn't see himself being nominated by Pakatan to be MB of Selangor. His conviction of his right to continue in his CEO (MB) position was most unfortunately further strengthened by PAS' Pak Haji Hadi Awang's naughty support of him.

As I've joked about it before, without support from his own political party or as a renegade to his own political party, by insisting on remaining on as MB in a Pakatan ruled state, he effectively became a rare avis, not unlike a unicorn or a chimera.

It's in his DNA so in general don't be too harsh on him, other than his wish to be MB again. Being MB is being a people's representative which as discussed, he appeared not cut out to be.

Hey, maybe we can recommend him to be CEO 1MDB?

Thus, I have serious concerns about his ability to serve the people of Selangor as MB who's really a people's representative - again, don't mistake or be confused about his excellent business sense and competency for his political responsibility of truly serving the people (rather than just the state as a business company) - ask the people of Cheras.

In the final analysis, for Khalid to realize his wet yet not so wet dreams, to revert bubur back into nasi (and I don't want to hear that term nasi k***k***, wakakaka), it will all depend on PAS or to be more specific, Pak Haji Hadi Awang.

Will Pak Haji be willing to join in a new state coalition to back Khalid Ibrahim as MB, in which the coalition may include UMNO's participation? Icing on top for Pak Haji, DAP is unlikely to be in, wakakaka.

I'm afraid you'll have to ask him, wakakaka.