YOURSAY 'The ‘oarsmen' (taxpaying rakyat) are screaming tired, while the overfed passengers (cronies) are riding a roller coaster of waves.'

GE13: Time is fast running out for Najib

your say Odin: Whether the general election is held now or delayed, the prospects for BN look bleak. Just now, we had the ‘hang Ambiga' thing, which had upset even the MIC.

In Sabah, we find the 'Ini kali, guru' (This time around, teacher) cry ringing through the rural areas. That translates as ‘This time around, get rid of the BN'.

In Sarawak, Ibans in Ulu Niah are preparing for war. They have received a notice that ordered them to vacate their longhouses within 14 days with no compensation for their longhouses, land and other assets.

One of Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud's cronies is going to bulldoze their area to plant oil palm. They have vowed that they would fight to the death. The situation there is tense.

Thanks to Radio Free Sarawak, Ibans in many other areas would have heard of the matter by now; they would not be too pleased, either.

So, it looks like the BN's bank accounts there are about to close - and let us hope that it will be so.

Righteous: "Perfect weather ... Perfect storm" are superlatives that don't apply to Najib and the BN. They are in choppy waters with a broken-down ship, sinking in mounting scandals.

The ‘oarsmen' (taxpaying rakyat) are screaming tired, while the overfed passengers (ministers and cronies) are riding a roller coaster of waves.

The hidden coral outcrop is where they are heading for come GE13. Shakespeare's ‘Julius Caesar' applies:

There is a tide in the affairs of men.

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat,

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.

Meranti Kepong: With all the scandals around him, particularly the Scorpene submarines, and his possible summons to either attend a hearing in France or be declared an international fugitive, PM Najib Razak knows his days as an unelected premier are numbered.

He knows the ominous signs are on the Umno wall, he will not only lose the election but Umno will be in the opposition.

Hence, Najib will drag on as long as he can before calling for an election in which the government will go to Pakatan Rakyat and Anwar Ibrahim will be the next premier of a new Malaysia.

Tekee: I'll offer Najib my free oracle reading: He won't be defeated if he calls for election on Feb 29, 2013.

Bersih@428: Umno can only win if it chooses Feb 29 as the election date in the next three years. The Malay mind has lately been awakened, and Bersih on 428 (April 28) proved it.

There was a cross-section of Malays from Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis, Kedah and the Perak hinterland, and they saw what the Umno lackeys did on Umno's orders. No mainstream media bluff can pull wool over their eyes.

The people now see the Umno government as a Mafia set-up where no member will ever question any wrongdoing. Otherwise, he or she will be hanged.

Isbeliever: Najib still has an advantage as he has the Election Commission on his side and an uneven playing field too. He also keeps shifting the goalposts at his convenience.

That's why he will not carry out all the electoral reforms put forward by Bersih despite witnessing the mass crowd of at least 100,000 people who came out in droves to support Bersih.

In fact, the government and Kuala Lumpur City Hall had the cheek to sue Bersih co-chair S Ambiga.

Such arrogance will be rewarded with protest votes at the ballot box. Najib is probably digging his own grave and thus the Rahman prophecy will become a reality.

Time will tell, but time is not on Najib's side.

Lim Chong Leong: When time runs out, he will call for emergency rule. That is why Umno's poisonous racist machinery like Perkasa, Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Utusan Malaysia has been on full steam to stoke violence.

Hang Babeuf: Just like, in his time back then, Harold Wilson who as British PM, always held that the best approach strategically was to "keep his options open" - which he did: until he had no options, and no time, left.

If you spend all your time waiting for the right moment, you may find that the right moment never comes!

And when you realise it, you may be tempted to make a sudden, rash, ill-advised "bolt" for freedom, a desperate attempt to "break out". Let us see what now happens...

Supercession: In short, Najib is fried.

Wira: With an approval rating of over 65 percent, Najib can be the most popular opposition leader in history in this country.

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