This budget can then inform intelligent climate-control policy, whether it be managing one forest or shaping national emissions regulations.
"Whether it's tax policy, whether it's his approach to abortion, gay rights, immigration, he's the most conservative nominee that they've had going back to Goldwater," Mr. Plouffe said.
After all, Ukip is not just about policy – whether on Europe, gay marriage or wind farms – it is a revolt against politics as usual.
Still, Cardinal Dolan said the interview did not signal a shift in church doctrine or policy, whether toward same-sex marriage or abortion.
To a first approximation, in other words, the effect of current fiscal policy — whether stimulus or austerity — an the actions of future governments is zero.
"I would respectfully suggest," he said, "that it's a very funny conception of liberty that forces somebody to purchase an insurance policy whether they want it or not".
Israel, he said, has to "sit down and work out a policy, whether that is to destroy Hamas, or whether it is something else".
The wisdom of that foreign policy, whether in Syria, Egypt, or Libya, is very debatable, but it is nevertheless the expression of a relatively strong state.
US arms control minister John Bolton confirmed that "regime change" in Baghdad remained American policy, whether or not Saddam let the inspectors back in.
