Follow-Up: David Kuo's Tempting Faith
If you missed MSNBC's Countdown last night, the above is essential viewing. We documented the highlights and an overview here.
ThinkProgress just printed another excerpt from Tempting Faith—which is the subject of the MSNBC report above—set just prior to Bush’s 2001 inauguration:
Every other White House office was up and running. The faith-based initiative still operated out of the nearly vacant transition offices.Three days later, a Tuesday, Karl Rove summoned [Don] Willett [a former Bush aide from Texas who initially shepharded the program] to his office to announce that the entire faith-based initiative would be rolled out the following Monday. Willett asked just how -- without a director, staff, office, or plan -- the president could do that. Rove looked at him, took a deep breath, and said, “I don’t know. Just get me a fucking faith-based thing. Got it?” Willett was shown the door.
Charming, Turd Blossom.
Bill McCartney
