"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

- Gerald R Ford (The only American president to have served as vice-president and president, without being elected by the Electoral College)

COMMENT "I am very disappointed that the very people whom I have helped by providing business opportunities and caring for their welfare have sabotaged me," moaned Mohd Ali Rustam, the former chief minister of Malacca. He is not the only one.

For the so-called winners of the much-disputed general election, Umno, and rest assured Umno is the only winner; the next big struggle is the internal conflict that would see a clash between the various power groups to determine who controls the gravy train.

As it is, the puppet master Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been carefully placing his proxies in strategic positions for the eventual Night of the Long Knives, which would see the end of the Najib administration...