February 14th, 2006

Rumours that a major upheaval in the cabinet line-up is making its rounds lately. Although not much of a political observer, I have great hope that Pak Lah would actually pick the 'best man for the job'*

Hopefully, the person that Pak Lah would pick does have some understanding of the position that he/she is filling. It is just frustrating to wade through some of the smoke and mirrors that some ministers put up when trying to give light on a certain problems. We, at least for me, had enough of the 'We will look into the matter / I have no knowledge of that matter / Let the police do their job first' etc. etc. comments.

And if they do reply, it is filled with enough hot air to blow up two Hindenburgs. They're either skipping gingerly around the issue, or touched upon it, but not getting to the crux of the matter.

It is a long shot, but hopefully, the ministers wouldat least have some credentials in their respective posts. Thus, the Information Minister would have some backround in TV production or something; the Finance Minister is a former Bank Negara Governor etc. etc.

Although an aristarchy government is virtually impossible to set up, the idea of it is quite irresistable. With it, we are assured that a matter would be headed by a qualified or experienced people. The Minister would know in depth about the subject of the matter thus would be able to make the correct or best decisions. The least an informed one.

But then, Plato did envisioned the aristarchy government in his quest to seek his utopia, so I guess we would still end up nowhere.