"Mayberry Machiavellis" is DiIulio's term for the political staff and most particularly
Karl Rove, Bush's chief adviser. He describes Rove as "enormously powerful, maybe
the single most powerful person in the modern, post-Hoover era ever to occupy a
political-adviser post near the Oval Office."
As a result, DiIulio said, the administration has accomplished almost nothing
domestically except Bush's tax cut and an education bill, which DiIulio described as
"really a Ted Kennedy bill."
"There is a virtual absence as yet of any policy accomplishments that might, to a
fair-minded nonpartisan, count as the flesh on the bones of so-called compassionate
conservatism," he said. What there is, he said, is "on-the-fly policy-making by
speechmaking."
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