Yesterday, a COMELEC Commissioner was taken to task by a congressman, for saying that ‘enough was enough.’ My brain didn’t stay long enough to completely understand the Commissioner’s explanation of his statement. My mind was too busy being outraged.

We understand how important the Committee hearings are. We know that it is crucial for every single complaint to be heard and addressed. And we know that for those who did not win, all is is doubly important.

Is that explicit enough?

Now listen to us.

There are better ways of achieving the laudable objectives of these hearings. Ways that don’t require the COMELEC to de-prioritize the thousand and one tasks we need to accomplish to finally write finis to these elections. Ways that will allow our answers to be much clearer, more comprehensive, but perhaps less satisfying than when we can be interrupted and berated in the middle of an explanation.

That’s all we’re asking for, really. the opportunity to answer these questions without havingto constantly fly off on one tangent or another. This way, we can all get this over with.