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...seen in years. There were times he left his country-club audiences befuddled by his fervent tributes to reading labs in poor schools and to the aspirations of Mexican immigrants. After he was elected President, Bush surrounded himself with excellent people who cared about the poor--people like John DiIulio and David Kuo, who ran the faith-based program office; the speechwriter Mike Gerson and his then deputy, Pete Wehner. (Caveat lector: several of them are close friends of mine.) I figured this was one Republican Administration that really would take a fresh, serious look at antipoverty programs...
...each year from American companies that set up offshore headquarters to avoid taxation. (The Administration says it is hiring a thousand more agents to go after upper-income cheats.) Finally, the centerpiece of Bush's social policy--his bill supporting faith-based programs--collapsed, according to the now departed DiIulio, because the White House was more interested in a bill that pleased the Evangelical right than a compromise that might have actually passed...
...those who worked with him, the most surprising thing about the news that John J. DiIulio Jr. would be the first senior official to leave the Bush White House was that it didn't come sooner. From the moment in January when the professor and registered Democrat was tapped to oversee Bush's faith-based-charities initiative, DiIulio struggled in the job. As the program faltered in Congress, the outspoken, proudly impolitic DiIulio clashed with lawmakers, alienated religious conservatives and feuded with White House colleagues. A month ago, he sent a memo to the President's top three aides laying...
...DiIulio's departure would be less significant if the only other Democrat with a high-ranking White House job weren't following him out the door. Not only is Sandy Kress a Democrat, but he's also the lead negotiator and chief policymaker for Bush's education-reform plan. Together with his faith-based initiative, education reform undergirded Bush's claim to be a compassionate conservative. Like DiIulio, Kress was chosen because Bush hoped his Democratic credentials would attract bipartisan support. In Kress's case, it worked. But after the education-reform bill clears Congress, expected next month, Kress will...
Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer says the President "will miss John DiIulio." But he won't miss the controversy DiIulio stirred up. When Bush's plan to fund religious charities ran into surprising resistance from Christian conservatives worried about government meddling in church affairs, DiIulio lashed out, labeling them "predominantly white, exurban, evangelical and national parachurch leaders." And when word leaked that DiIulio's No. 2, Don Eberly, and Bush adviser Karl Rove were entertaining an inappropriate request from the Salvation Army--to defend the charity's right to discriminate against gays in exchange for its support for Bush...