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KMT's Yang criticizes controversial `Three Amigos'

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday lauded the Taiwan Solidarity Union's (TSU) decision to move towards a more moderate course, but urged the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to give up its "Three Amigos (三寶)" politics and be rational.

The "Three Amigos" was an apparent reference to DPP legislators Lin Chung-mo (林重謨), Tsai Chi-fang (蔡啟芳) and Hou Shui-sheng (侯水盛), who are known for their controversial politics.

"The DPP is now left with the `Three Amigos' and those who mimic their styles. They don't need rational discussions or rhetoric. What they do is name-calling and low-class shows," chairman of the KMT's Culture and Communications Committee Yang Tu (楊渡) said yesterday in a written statement.

Yang said that it was impossible for the KMT to communicate with the DPP because the latter was behaving irrationally.

He attributed the violence that broke out on the last day of the legislative session to the DPP's "Three-Amigos" trend.

Yang said that Tsai and his colleagues had blocked the gate with locks and paralyzed the legislative process. He added that they should be held responsible for the central government's fiscal budget remaining in the legislature even after the fiscal year had begun.

He said that the DPP should respect 11 former members of its New Tide faction who had been outspoken in criticizing their party.

The people have been dubbed the "11 bandits" and have been the target of criticism within the DPP.

Former legislators Lee Wen-chung (李文忠) and Lin Cho-shui (林濁水), and Legislators Hong Chi-chang (洪奇昌) and Shen Fa-hui (沈發惠) are included in the group.

Yang said that the "Three Amigo" trend had to be stopped in order for Taiwan's democracy to progress and called the 11 former New Tide members the "11 gentlemen" who could prove to be the DPP's salvation.
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