Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

Yesterday the New York Times had a nice profile of the man behind the budget, Dr. Peter Orszag, who is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.  It’s worth reading, if for no other reason than that it adds to one’s confidence that Obama has a very capable team behind him.  There is evidence here that in addition to Obama’s clear commitment to health care reform, Dr. Orszag is also very much interested in this issue, partly because he believes that we need it for the sake of reducing the deficit.

The NYT article mentions that Orszag had a well-regarded blog when he was the Director of the Congressional Budget Office.  However, it neglects to mention that he’s blogging again as the Director of OMB.  I was a fan of the CBO Director’s Blog when Orszag was there, and his new blog is worth checking out.

Finally, this piece confirms my early take on the Obama administration–this is a team of high-powered geeks.  In fact, Orszag appears to be a supergeek, which I define as an extremely geeky person in a position of great authority.  I also appreciate that the NYT article adds some credibility to the distinction between nerds and geeks that I tried to make in that earlier post.