The label carries much the same meaning as the terms "Reaganite", "Clintonista", and “Obamabot”, which are used to denote aides and followers of Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama respectively.
Although the term has a longer recorded usage, it first came to prominence with the John Podhoretz's 1993 book, Hell of a Ride, about his experiences working for the George H. W. Bush White House.
According to reviewer Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post, The term was also defined by David Brooks in a review of the 2001 book Reagan In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America.
While Reaganites were often Hayekian academics connected to think tanks, Bushies tended to be "boring" corporate careerists with "neat desks and thin briefcases because their reading comes in the form of memos", who saw themselves as "master managers" and politics as a "competition of interests" rather than ideas.
Attorneys when it was revealed that Justice Department official Kyle Sampson suggested in an e-mail to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft that According to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat,