Horse’s Mouth

Just a comment on the article Ex-Bush aides say he never recovered from Katrina

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On other topics, David Kuo, who served as deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, disputed the idea that the Bush White House was dominated by religious conservatives and catered to the needs of a religious right voting bloc.

"The reality in the White House is — if you look at the most senior staff — you’re seeing people who aren’t personally religious and have no particular affection for people who are religious-right leaders," Kuo said.

"In the political affairs shop in particular, you saw a lot of people who just rolled their eyes at … basically every religious-right leader that was out there, because they just found them annoying and insufferable. These guys were pains in the butt who had to be accommodated."

That’s about as straight-from-the-horse’s-mouth as you can hope for — considering that the Republican party, which best serves the top five percent of America by income, has to commandeer religion in order to have any hope for majority support.