Faced with mounting public outrage over the Palace’s efforts to defend a corrupt system, President Aquino—with the Senate President and House Speaker by his side —had declared in a pointless PR exercise that pork barrel would be abolished, only to say in the next breath that it would be replaced with a new and as yet unnamed “mechanism.” His mouthpiece at the Palace dismissed queries about pork, saying the President had already abolished it. Yet all these were clearly shown to be lies when the solicitor-general admitted before the Supreme Court that the President, in fact, had no power to abolish pork, only to suspend its distribution, which is what he did. What do you call a duplicitous politician who says one thing when he is in the spotlight, but does another while nobody is looking? In most circles we would call him a two-faced liar. In this country, we call him Mr. President.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 23:51:44 +0000
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