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hacks and wonks
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Originally posted by bilmore
Reed's a tremendously funny guy, but I think he's wrong on this one. I think Rummy and Wolfy and Cheney are complete wonks. They are policy-and-philosophy-driven people. They just wonk to a different drummer than does Reed. What Reed's trying to build here is the "we're the thinking person's party" theme.
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I think he's talking about domestic policy, not foreign policy, and the guys you mention are all on the latter side. I say that without going back to check the article to confirm that I'm right, but all the examples I can think of off the top of my head were domestic. (This was surely written long before the events of this week.)
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