I found an interesting artilce on Bush and his evangelical adminstration by Historian Garry Willis. It confirms a feeling I have concerning Bush - I think he will go down in History as one of our worst Presidents, all becuase he's an ex-alcoholic bad boy who found Jesus, but seriously misunderstood the message. I found Willis's article via Red Blue Christian. An excellent Christian blog full of thoughtful and enlighted content. A post called "Do Evangelicals Hate Science?" led me to A Country rulled by Faith. Give it a read. I think It is worth a few minutes of your time.
Bush promised his evangelical followers faith-based social services, which he called "compassionate conservatism." He went beyond that to give them a faith-based war, faith-based law enforcement, faith-based education, faith-based medicine, and faith-based science. He could deliver on his promises because he stocked the agencies handling all these problems, in large degree, with born-again Christians of his own variety. The evangelicals had complained for years that they were not able to affect policy because liberals left over from previous administrations were in all the health and education and social service bureaus, at the operational level. They had specific people they objected to, and they had specific people with whom to replace them, and Karl Rove helped them do just that.
Source: The New York Review of Books: A Country Ruled by Faith
