SOME, especially the astute politician and financial wizard who invented the illegal and unconstitutional Disbursement Acceleration Program, Sec. Florencio Abad, would have people see nothing more than just a “great sense of urgency” and an “impassioned plea” to the Supreme Court justices in the speech that President Benigno Aquino delivered quite effectively last Monday evening. So does Senator Sonny Angara. He told newsmen “President Aquino has always been passionate in his positions.”
Abad and Angara obviously wish to cool the impact of the President’s hot words against the Supreme Court and the magistrates. He said he had been told some justices were using the DAP issue in a personal vendetta against him. And only the most naïve would fail to hear the President threatening the SC justices with impeachment or some punitive action that his allies in Congress would take if the justices did not reconsider their decision against the way he and Secretary Abad assembled funds from existing and ongoing projects that they halted and used for projects they decided to give priority to.
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