WTF Is It Now?!?

You want fries with that?

David Kuo's book, Tempting Faith, is in bookstores today, and Justin Rood over at TPMmuckraker is busily reading. He quotes a passage where Pretzelnit Bunnypants completely loses it over an Esquire article exposing the administration's complete lack of followthrough on "faith-based initiatives":

Bunnypants: "Have we done compassion or haven't we? I wanna know."

We made some calls and did some calculations. . . [and found] we were actually spending about $20 million a year less than before he had taken office.

"We gotta get some compassion stuff out there now," Margaret [Spellings] said. "What have we got?"

The attendees [of the so-called "compassion meeting" called to address this issue] were tasked to come up with several one-page policy proposals in the next 24 hours, which the president could consider for inclusion in his upcoming State of the Union address.

Then the ones he chose disappeared quietly. (The Citizen Service Act, a $450 million initiative to mentor disadvantaged junior high school kids and the children of prisoners, and a $600 million expansion of addiction recovery treatment.)

--dg