SINCE it is still the hottest "talk show" in this side of town, we can't help but join in the cacophony of voices vying for attention. It may be a voice in the wilderness but just the same, raising it according to our desired decibel is just as significant, in the name of patriotic duty.

Yes, Kith, the controversial NBN-ZTE deal is still very much in the news. In fact, every passing day, the scam is getting hotter and hotter with new personalities dragged into the stinking mess every step of the way.

And Filipinos from all stripes, sizes and color are all the more entertained at every turn. For sure, its entertainment value is just as enjoyable while it lasts.

With all the lies and half-truths in abundance from both players of the political spectrum, we are at a quandary who is on the wrong or right side of the equation.

Whatever, the torrid exchange of what constitute lies and what makes up the truth is still to be tested in the marketplace of public opinion.

Be that as it may, we might as well zero in on the issue why Pres. GMA is digging in her heels all the more in firm footing. To our mind, it's because she believes she still enjoys the solid support of so-called institutions in our republican state.

Whatever you say of GMA in the annals of politicians of note, she is still tops in terms of cunning, callousness, brutality and ruthlessness.

And she uses all these negative tricks in her book to stay in power.

But, remember sometimes, the runner stumbles.

In her effort not to make a misstep or miscalculation, she was so careful in her decisions. But as Abraham Lincoln, one great American president famous for his classic one-liner, "you can fool the people some of the time, but not all the people, all the time", our lady president must have forgotten this Linconian reminder. That she committed the biggest blunder of her entire political career made her vulnerable throughout her public service record while she is still in office or out of it.

To our mind, the greatest mistake GMA had ever committed was the imprimatur she gave to imprison Erap. Don't give us the rubbish that Erap was incarcerated by force of the so-called rule of law.

It was just that at that time then, it was fashionable to catch one big fish like Erap in order to deliver the message that her administration knew no sacred cow in prosecuting grafters in government.

But what of it if no big fish was netted by anti-graft busters?

Did it change a bit our culture of corruption? Not at all, if you ask this Bglante. In fact, it escalated into more daring and brazen ones.

The blunder that GMA committed will haunt her one day. It was a dangerous precedent that she imprisoned a former president and what the hell are we to expect if the time of reckoning come her way. All told, if GMA is digging in despite calls for her resignation, the reality stares her point blank that she is no exception if she is tried herself for corruption when she is toppled from her presidential perch.