Mahathir Has To Step Down Sooner Than Later

I have said it before and I say it again. The uncertainty surrounding whether Maha the Great will pass the baton to Anwar is not good for Bolehland. Especially with the backdoor attempt to bring in 40 dUMNo MPs to strengthen Pribumi and make it the largest component party of PH.

Mahathir is not someone one could implicitly trust. Wasn't it he himself who had said that the agreement to hand over the premiership to Anwar after 2 years was not one written in stone? Yet he has also insisted that he would pass the baton to Anwar.  And now he says that that depends on whether the people would agree to it.

That is not what an honourable man would do. If there is an agreement reached, whether written in stone or not, you honour the agreement and don't try to wriggle out of it.

Imagine if Anwar's wife had agreed with the King's offer (as she had revealed) for her to be appointed the 7th PM instead of Mahathir, because she had thought that the agreement among the PH partners for Mahathir to be the one was not one written in stone and need not be honoured?

That would be dishonorable.

Really, Maha the Great thinks highly of no one else. In his estimation, no one is qualified to be the Pm of Bolehland except himself. And he does not seem to like anyone whom he sees as smarter. Ergo, Musa Hitam, his first deputy Pm, had to go. So too Anwar, who had to be put away on a charge that only the duller of minds would agree had any truth to it. Certainly not the government doctor who had first examined the alleged sodomy victim.

Look what happened to Badawi, the man who took over from Maha The Great? Badawi had almost total support of the people as evinced when he led dUMNo on his own steam and won a landslide election victory, one that far surpassed what the Great One could achieve during all 4 or 5 of the ones the Great One himself had personally led.

That probably riled the Great One. How could a lesser guy pull off something the Great One himself could not in all his years despite the adulation and respect he thought he had earned for himself?

So when Badawi had the gumption to ignore the Great One's grandiose projects (especially the one some called 'the crooked bridge to nowhere') he thought he had Badawi agreed to continue, all hell broke loose and the Great One worked to oust his unfortunate successor.

Then he anointed Najib as the next Pm to succeed Badawi. Well, Najib was a popular choice of the people too. At least, no one made any noise against him becoming the 6th Pm of Bolehland. And look where that led the nation to?

The world's worst case kleptocracy!

It is really not about whether passing the premiership to Anwar as agreed to among the PH coalition partners was one written in stone or whether it would have the support of the people.

It is all about whether Anwar as the next Bolehland Pm would outshine the Great One? Now, I am not saying Anwar would. He might or he might not. But I would rather the uncertainty surrounding whether the Great One would honour the agreement be put to rest by his stepping down sooner than later than allowing politics taking center stage and distracting the nation from moving on and ahead.

Politics is the last thing the supposed dawn of a brave new Bolehland post GE 14 needs and can afford to waste time on.

Besides, Maha the Great One has had his time. He has done his due and it is time to pass the baton to Anwar.

The 80s and 90s were a different era altogether. Today is the cyber age.

Maha the Great One's ideas are passe. Look, the first thing he did when he  he became the Pm again after 15 years, was to head to Nipponland with bowl in hand seeking Samurai validation, like how he did with his Look East Policy in his first stint as the 4th Pm of Bolehland.

Nipponland is no longer the rising sun. Its sun has set. The rising sun today is the Middle Kingdom if the Great One knew where to look.

And he still dreamt of another national car project when the first has failed miserably.

Crooked bridge to nowhere, again?

Straight might be the smarter and only path.