PARTLY FACETIOUS: The beauty of elections, democracy

"Twentieth constitutional amendment was passed by the Senate."
"The cost of the passage is around 36 crore rupees and I am not sure if Dr Hafeez Sheikh was taken on board - what I mean is that the budget deficit is likely to increase as a consequence with repercussions on the rate of inflation that in turn has implications for the elections."
"You are so naive. First of all, Dr Sheikh himself belongs to the august house so he must have been a part of the deal. Secondly, he is fully aware that many of the senators will lose their seats ten days from now, after all he himself will lose the seat though God be praised the PPP co-chairman has given him a non-contested seat for the next elections..."
"But the crores released to the senators who will definitely lose their seats would be spent within the ten odd days or so?"
"Welcome to the politics of consensus."
"But the budget deficit..."
"Welcome to the politics of consensus."
"OK, I guess I know what you mean but let me add one more fact. The twentieth amendment is a deal between the PPP and the PML (N) so all this drama with respect to their attacks against each other's leadership is so much hogwash."
"But PML (N) says they are not a friendly opposition..."
"No, perhaps not, but their interests are the same and those interests would be safeguarded come what may."
"How can you say that?"
"From their opposition to a tax on farm income to their insistence on the defection clause that grants dictatorial powers to the party leader and the Twentieth Amendment that eliminated the role of President in relation to interim set-up but it would allow Gilani and Nisar Ali to agree on the interim set-up and I am sure there will be trade-offs in the centre set up and the Punjab set-up..."
"I see, where you are going with this but all these deals are subject to the will of the people. I mean the people could ensure that neither party has the post of the leader of the house or the leader of the opposition in the next assembly."
"Change is imminent even if our voting patterns are unlikely to change this time around."
"That is right and that is the beauty of elections and democracy."