From the Orange County Register:

If President Bush had appointed, for example, former Reagan budget chief James Miller or National Review economics editor Lawrence Kudlow to head the Office of Management and Budget when he made former OMB head Joshua Bolten his new White House chief of staff, that might have been a signal that a new era of spending discipline was imminent. Instead, he appointed U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, a proven administration loyalist. That suggests more of the same, which so far, despite some pretty promises this year, has meant a spending spree that makes LBJ look like a piker.