Rob Nabors May Be Obama's Secret Weapon

While almost everyone who follows the federal budget has been focused on Peter Orzag's nomination to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, Rob Nabor's nomination to be the budget deputy at OMB may actually be just as important to the success of the Obama plan.

For those of you who don't know him, Nabors is the staff director of the House Appropriations Committee.  That means that, with Nabors, the president-elect will have someone who not only can do the line-by-line review he wants (that is, after all, what the appropriations committee staff does for a living every year), he has someone who knows where every appropriated dollar is and, most important, how it got there.