"No administration since [Lyndon B. Johnson's] has had a more successful legislative record than this one. From tax cuts to Medicare, the White House gets what the White House really wants. It never really wanted the 'poor people stuff.'"

-- David Kuo, former deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, on the Bush administration's "failure to secure $8 billion in promised funding for the faith-based initiative in the first term," in today's Washington Post