"Moderates don't feel they're being listened to," DiVall says. "You can't just play to your base."
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
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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