The petty President

It is unclear now which gave portents of things to come: the President’s speech challenging the Supreme Court’s decision on the (un)constitutionality of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) or news of Typhoon Rammasun making landfall in the Bicol Region and the Visayas.

It is telling of course that this same President thought it wise to go on nationwide television to address the nation and defend his administration’s system of allocating public funds for various projects, a day before a typhoon was to make itself felt.