Lost and Clueless

It appears our prime minister was not aware that Muhyidin made a statement asking him to go off earlier. The PM said he was surprised. Muhyidin is his cabinet member, he lamented.

Here’s a glimpse of how the whole thing works. Or how I think it works.

According to Pak Lah’s thinking, the cabinet is the same as UMNO’s MKT. It is a convention, that when a cabinet member finds himself at variance with the PM’s policy position , he should resign. Ah so, the PM thinks, because Muhyidin is a member of his cabinet, disagreement with a policy taken by the ‘cabinet’ must require Muhyidin’s resignation.

Its gets curiouser and curiouser. The stand taken by the UMNO supreme council endorsing the plan for the power transfer is a cabinet policy? Those who disagree with that policy stand must either keep quiet or resign?.

Will Muhyidin now resign? For that reason, Najib will never go against PakLah. First because he thinks the cat’s in the bag. Second, if he declares openly, he is against a cabinet policy. Being a stickler to tradition, he will not have the courage to resign.

In Pak Lah’s dream world, the MKT is now a functioning cabinet and the PM breezes seamlessly across borders. Pak Lah is practicing a borderless world after all. Or maybe he is clueless.