Albany was late with the state budget for the 20th straight year, but no one except a handful of policy wonks seemed to care.
It might seem like a conversation between financial policy wonks, but something else was at work.
While this might shock policy wonks, it won't surprise historians.
Nor was there much on offer for the policy wonk.
"He could definitely pick every issue in this bill and mix it up with the most intense policy wonk."
But the Clinton plan was devised by a small army of policy wonks.
This is not a technical matter, of interest only to policy wonks.
The policy wonk in Clinton loves to test and compare such plans.
The result is a sort of triangulation for policy wonks.
The patent system is not a toy for policy wonks.