Still, people who have worked with Mr. Snow said he was more of a pragmatist than an ideological supply-sider, and that he would prove willing to make some accommodations with moderates in both parties to advance Mr. Bush's policies in Congress, including further tax cuts.
Thus a certain sprezzatura in the face of its sickening irregularities may reflect long experience, as well as a good supply of ideological Dramamine.
The neoconservatives who supply its ideological backbone are disarmingly frank that the explicit objective of US strategy should be not only to see off any hostile enemy, but also to prevent the emergence of a peaceful competitor.
The Coens' film that supplies the ideological underpinning for all this genre-warping behaviour is Barton Fink (1991), in which the quintessential Coens protagonist – naïve, idealistic, goodhearted – is the eponymous playwright, co-opted by Hollywood and plunged into a traumatic netherworld, where cynical moguls manipulate Faulknerian screenwriters – or is it the other way round?
Approvingly citing the example of Brazil — where masses of indigenous landholders were displaced in favor of large-scale farms — Collier concluded that "to ignore commercial agriculture as a force for rural development and enhanced food supply is surely ideological".
The three congressmen, who are friends as well as ideological kinsmen, can be credited with supplying a desperately needed dynamism to the Republican remnant in Congress as the Obama era began.
The reasons for this, which supply a tongue-in-cheek ideological critique of everything the Bond enterprise represents, are revealed later on.
However, it's hard to have even basic debates over modest increases in the housing supply here because of this ideological dispute.
From the left, voices angrily accuse Mr Field of supplying the coalition with an ideological rationale for slashing financial aid to the poor.
He will likely have difficulty maintaining the loyalty of Bin Laden's followers, who are largely Arabs from the Persian Gulf and who are pivotal in supplying the organization with fighters, money and ideological support, the official said.
The United States can buy South American goods and commodities at fair prices and provides no-strings-attached, non-ideological, zero-interest loans for community development, infrastructure, and water supply.
