Not many expected Vice President Jejomar C. Binay to come to the Cabinet meeting last week after President B. S. Aquino 3rd said he was free to leave if he disliked the way he was running the government. They prayed he would accept the challenge, and were sorely disappointed when he did not. But I am sure some explanations are forthcoming.
Binay has been savaged at the Senate blue ribbon subcommittee for alleged corruption when he was still mayor of Makati, which he ran for more than 20 years. On valid constitutional grounds, he has refused to appear before the committee to answer the charges. And Senators Antonio Trillanes 4th, Alan Peter Cayetano and Aquilino Pimentel 3rd have kept the heat on, despite rising public disapproval of the rank misuse of their questionable powers.
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