Control of budget intoxicating BS Aquino

President Benigno Simeon (BS) Aquino The Last, I mean The Third, has tasted the intoxicating power of exercising full control over the budget and I doubt if he would ever part with it while he’s in Malacanang. It seems his followers don’t mind if his principled stand before has already fallen by the wayside. So what? He still has other principled stands worth praising anyhow!

It doesn’t matter that when he was a senator, he wanted then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to faithfully implement the national budget as passed by Congress. During that time when he was still outside looking in, he found it detestable for Malacanang to withhold funds appropriated by Congress and transfer them to other projects. He filed then an anti-impoundment measure so Malacanang could not trifle with the legislature’s inherent power of the purse. Now, he and his admirers are all justifying his use of the power that he used to criticize. That’s “tuwid na daan” for you!