These are trying times for the tough-talking regime. What went around seems to have come around and bitten the mighty military on its backside.
Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is due to deliver a closing statement today in defence of an allegation levelled against her that she neglected her duty during the government's rice-pledging scheme and caused hundreds of billions of baht in damages.
Meanwhile, members of her Pheu Thai Party are accusing the current government of irregularities in its rice auction programmes, saying it packaged rice fit for human consumption into low-grade stocks and sold it at much cheaper rates as animal feed and industrial material.
Atiya Achakulwisut is Contributing Editor, Bangkok Post.
The scale of damages allegedly caused by the two governments is starkly different, with Ms Yingluck being accused of wasting more than 500 billion baht in her rice-pledging scheme and the military a few billion baht in theirs.
But of course, this is one of those cases in which Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. Seeing as the junta accused Ms Yingluck of negligence in overseeing the rice-pledging programme, is it doing a better job of overseeing its own rice auction programmes?
Then there is the ongoing flood crisis in the North and Northeast.
The flooding inevitably brought back memories of 2011, when widespread and disastrous floods resulted in then PM Yingluck being criticised as inexperienced and mismanaging the situation.
Ironically, the North and Northeast floods follow proclamations by the military that it was rolling out a full-scale flood prevention and water management system, implying it was making more of an effort than the previous government.
The floods threaten to tarnish the junta's carefully crafted image as the better of the two governments, one that is not only more efficient but prudent and systematic in flood and water resources management.
But this facade seems to be crumbling as water levels rise in many parts of the North and Northeast.
As if that wasn't enough, the flooding in Sakon Nakhon has come with additional problems. Criticism has mounted that the situation was made worse than it should have been by authorities' alleged failure to give adequate warnings of the inundation.
The issue has become even more poignant after local people complained that the flooding may have been partly caused by a breach at Huai Sai Khamin reservoir which sent a torrent of water into town from which residents didn't have enough time to flee.
The Royal Irrigation Department, however, insisted last Saturday there was no reservoir breach. Only part of its rim had been damaged by a violent flow of water, the RID reportedly said.
The next day, however, photos showing the reservoir empty were circulated online with questions from local people over whether the reservoir did in fact breach and whether the RID failed to give them adequate warning.
On Sunday, a director of the RID office in Sakon Nakhon said excessive rainfall caused the reservoir, which has a 2.4 million cubic metre capacity, to spill over after a torrent caused a 4m by 20m-long hole.
The breach caused about half the amount of water stored in the reservoir, about one million cubic metres, to immediately flow into the surrounding areas and into people's homes and farms.
The RID tried to dismiss criticism that it failed in its duty to warn people about the reservoir spilling over by saying the one million cubic metre leak was not a major contributor to the flooding in Sakon Nakhon.
Spread over an area of 10 square km, that amount of water would cause 10cm of flooding, the RID stated, according to news reports.
While the government's rebuttals sound like serious spin, the military has still come out and warned of linking the disaster to any actions by the government. Quoting the premier, government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd told politicians to refrain from accusing the military regime of bungling flood warnings and management.
According to Lt Gen Sansern, the current floods are a natural disaster out of their hands and very different to the 2011 disaster caused by the then government's mishandling of rainwater and water storage levels in reservoirs.
Applying this logic may be a bit of a stretch but what can we do? While leaders and officials play politics and pontificate on who is to blame in times like these, ordinary people are the ones on the ground grappling with the very real problems of disaster and misery.