Salon.com > john diiulio http://www.salon.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:25:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Bush’s director of faith-based initiatives praises liberal successor http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/former_bush_director_of_faith_based_initiative_extols_liberal_successor_partne/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/former_bush_director_of_faith_based_initiative_extols_liberal_successor_partne/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:11:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13191469 John J. DiIulio, the first director of George W. Bush's White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, has taken to the Washington Post to laud President Obama's White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In it, he cutely claims to like Obama's director of the faith-based office, Joshua DuBois, better than "Bush's first 'faith czar.'"
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Less than a year into his own tenure, DiIulio resigned in disgust, and complained about Bush staffers who sought to dole out favors to religious conservatives rather than serve "compassionate conservativism." He notoriously coined the term "Mayberry Machiavellis" to describe Bush insiders, who, in relation to faith-based legislation, "winked at the most far-right House Republicans" in attempting to pass legislation for the faith-based office. That bill, which went nowhere, was drafted because Bush staffers thought it "satisfied certain fundamentalist leaders and Beltway libertarians."

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