The Palace, through the Solicitor-General, joining the
House of Representatives, in its 23-page comment, has asked the Supreme Court to junk petitions calling for the declaration
of pork barrel funds unconstitutional. Now we’re seeing that even Pnoy is no
impervious to the evil lure of money.
Just weeks after announcing he was scrapping the pork
barrel system –responding to mounting calls from the public for its abolition–
the president seems to have had a sudden change of heart, now seeming to have succumbed
to the irresistible beckoning of tens of billions of pesos that would slip out
of his control and those of his cohorts if he made good on his words.
Sadly, in the eyes of the public, the President, once
thought to be different and of unswayable moral compass, has shed his skin and
revealed his familiar porky hide. The duplicity! Again, the argument that the TRO on pork
barrel would work to the damage of the students and sickly is lame, and a hokey
ploy as explained in yesterday’s post.
The trouble is, the Palace and Congress don’t get it
and continue to underestimate the outrage that the public continue to harbor
over the subject. If the Palace pushes ahead with its posturing, I would not be
surprised if the People graduate from demanding abolishing the pork barrel to
abolishing the Pnoy administration.
Miscalculations at this point would have catastrophic consequences
for the administration. It’s like toying with matches next to a powder keg.
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