Of typhoons and the DAP

The power went out shortly after I started writing this column early Wednesday morning. It is during these times that you appreciate battery packs and the foresight to charge electronic gadgets. It is also the time you discover the creaking and whistling that your house can produce as the winds of Typhoon Glenda blew through it like a musical instrument. At 4 in the morning, the rain outside and the glow of the monitor in one’s face can drive the imagination enough to scare oneself.

Yet what is scarier than my imagination is the real prospect of a constitutional cat fight raised by President Aquino in his speech last Monday night on the Supreme Court’s (SC) decision against his government’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). In commenting that the SC’s decision is hard to understand in the light of the supposed usefulness of the DAP, President Aquino alluded to the possibility of the three branches of government embroiled in opposition to each other. He reiterated his belief that the DAP was legal despite the 13-0 ruling of the court.