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Article: `Compassionate conservativism' just words.(Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- December 13, 2002
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The curtain of "compassionate conservatism" covering the Bush administration's domestic policy was just pulled back by the man who used to run it, John DiIulio, former director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
His informed conclusion: There's nothing behind the flowery rhetoric except politics.
DiIulio, a widely respected academic who left the administration to return to the University of Pennsylvania in August 2001, gave a lengthy (a 3,500-word letter) description of the Bush administration domestic policy apparatus to Esquire magazine.
Not since December 1981, when Reagan Budget Director David Stockman revealed that ...