To Hell with Good Intentions

The post's title is both a crackin' song from Mclusky (see above), the most underrated bunch of Welsh rockers ever, as well as the gist of this week's column from Alberto Aziz Nassif:

Felipe Calderón knows that he needs to make common cause with the PRI if he wants to move ahead with any reform. He knows that his administration needs to push important reforms, but, at the same time, he must know that he doesn't have the resources, the alliances, nor the necessary votes to head a governing coalition that drives the reforms. In summary, [his recent comments on needed reforms] is a proposal similar to his list of ten from September 2nd, with the difference that some specifics are mentioned about the political reform, principally reelection and the reduction of Congress. We'll have to wait to see the bills, but you can already envision that each reform will be processed in a space teeming with big special interests, which are defended by the parties, the broadcast networks, the unions, the businesses, et cetera. In summary, the most probable result is that the speech on reform will continue being a verb of good intentions to recover something of lost legitimacy, but whose results will be completely deficient. When will the good intentions end and the serious reforms begin?

Aziz Nassif's use of "in summary" twice in the same paragraph follows Miguel Carbonell's doubling up on "freedom of expression" last week. Plus, Aziz Nassif refers to a "verb of good intentions" when he doesn't seem to be talking about a verb at all. (It strikes me that maybe there is a more nuanced definition of the word "verbo" with which I am unfamiliar; if such is the case, mil disculpas.) Editors?