At last the truth about the ‘faith-based initiative’ has come out from someone who ought to know,” said Lynn. “This ‘compassionate conservative’ agenda has less to do with helping the needy and more to do with electoral politics. It’s a shameful use of religion for partisan purposes

For anyone who wondered how much power the Bush people have, all one has to do is see how quickly they pounced on their former appointee for speaking out against them: Under what Washington observers believe is intense pressure from the Bush administration, DiIulio issued a statement parroting the White House line and agreeing that his criticisms were “groundless and baseless due to poorly chosen words and examples."

One wonders what they said to him to make him so quickly recant; very scary indeed.