Whatever happened to George W. Bush's "Compassionate Conservativism?"

Compassionate Conservatvism was the signature project of the George W. Bush Administration that wasn’t—one firmly focused on domestic affairs and the bipartisan reform of the welfare state. Bush offered not just generalities but a substantial Federal financial commitment. He promised a Compassion Capital Fund. The fund would assist small grass roots agencies, many but not all of them faith-based, few of which had previously qualified for federal support. The initiative in treating social problems would shift to the neighborhoods most affected by them, and to agencies ministering to the needy that had arisen from among them. No longer the passive objects of top-down federal programs that perpetuated their status as government clients, the poor would be helped to help themselves. Emerging from dependency, they would assume their places as equal (because economically self-reliant) citizens. Welfare spending would shrink, as would the taxes that supported it.

So what happened?