Mukhriz Says: Go, Pak Lah, Go!

Mukhriz Mahathir wants Pak Lah to step down. Pak Lah wants Hishamuddin Hussein Onn to bop Mukhriz Mahathir over the head for suggesting such an audacious thing.

Will he or won’t he – bop Mukhriz Mahathir over the head?

Clever lad that he is, Hishamuddin Hussein Onn has declined. Mukhriz Mahathir’s letter to Pak Lah, says Hishamuddin, is Mukhriz’s personal business, has nothing to do with the Umno Youth. After all, Mukhriz is also MP for Jerlun.

Now what will Pak Lah do? Suruh dia buat, dia tak nak buat. Pak Lah must be feeling quite frustrated that as Umno president his orders to the Umno youth chief is ignored.

Looks like everyone these days is giving Pak Lah a tough time.

Some people say Pak Lah has brought this on himself. Look what he did in the aftermath of the elections.

Instead of being a gracious gentleman, he acted the sore loser. He issued a warning to Penang’s new Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, saying Lim will be sorry ‘if he marginalized the Malays.’

All Lim said was the new Penang government would no longer use the NEP in running its state’s business. The reason, says Lim, is because the NEP method produces a lot of ‘you’re my friend, I’ll give you the state contract’-sort of business. He wants things done in a fairer, more transparent way. He also wants to set up a portal whereby all state contracts can be viewed by the public. Isn't this a good thing? Did the man say he was going to ‘marginalized the poor Malay?’ Is Lim off his rocker already?

Yesterday, a pack of Umno members protested in Penang, outside Komtar, the state administrative building. The police had to be called in. There were water cannons and there were trucks. Mercifully, no one lost his head and the protest was disbanded after awhile.

The New York Times called it ‘ethnic protests.’ A pox on those New Yorkers! They love to exaggerate things, don’t they?

Pak Lah, Pak Lah. Don’t you go around stirring up conflict among Malaysians, ok? Give peace a chance.