SOME people should just shut up. Take Budget Secretary Florencio Abad. After President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s handpicked Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales kept him out of the OMB’s probe into the illegal Disbursement Acceleration Program, Abad put him back in.

“We endorse to the President and the President has the final approval,” DAP architect Abad told media the day after Ombudsman Morales announced a preliminary investigation into the biggest malversation in Philippine history.

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