In the end, blame for the Republican Party's woes almost always falls on Bush. Even loyalists say the President, who promised the "most ethical administration" in history, has delivered, instead, a "business as usual" White House where politics too often overrides good public policy.
"There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus," says John J. DiIulio Jr.: who served as the first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. "What you've got is everything -- and I mean everything -- being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."
Copyright 2005 by Capitol Hill Blue
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