"The reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis"

According to Drudge:

[the former head of the] White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives... claims all decisions are politicized by Bush's top adviser Karl Rove, and that the policy staff is afraid to confront him..."What you've got is everything, and I mean everything, being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis"

Let's all pile on Rove! It's about damn friggin' time.

UPDATE: Dilulio now seems to be having interviewee's remorse. Apparently, some of his quotes were from a phone interview which, at the end, he asked if could be off the record and the author declined. In any case, it looks like Rove's people got to him: "in my opinion, the article is unjustly hard on Mr. Rove and over-the-top complimentary to me, thereby creating a too-pat contrast that is, I feel, most unfair to Mr. Rove..."

UPDATE 2: Drudge is now shilling for some ABC celebrity interview or other.

Politics · Sun, 12/01/2002 - 18:24 · · Importance: 1