This was in an article by Chris Floyd about how the states are being left out of disaster planning. To me it says exactly what the deal has been with that horrible lot in the WH:
“It’s just as disillusioned Bush appointee John DiIulio told us back in 2003 (before he was forced into a Stalinist-style recantation): There is no policy apparatus in the Bush Administration. There is no intent to actually govern the United States. There is only an authoritarian political machine dedicated to advancing its own agenda on behalf of a very narrow elite – and to covering its ass whenever the slightest inkling of its true nature gets out. “What you’ve got is everything—and I mean everything—being run by the political arm,” DiIulio told Esquire’s Ron Suskind in the now-famous quote. “It’s the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.”
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/masters-of-disaster-the-bush-gang-opens-the-floodgates-again-by-chris-floyd-sere/