Sour grapes!
Some of you guys should find out who Lyn Nofziger is before painting this as a clear example of liberal media bias. Of course, the NYTimes is using this to bash the President and I don't understand Lyn's reasoning for writing this. Maybe he's just an old grouch (he's obviously unhappy with W's fiscal policies, which I hope all of us are).
But there seems to also be a little disdain from former Reagan operatives towards this Republican administration. There was always a bit of Reagan/Bush rivalry between the former presidents' administrations anyway. And there seems to be a bit of the older guys not wanting to tip the hat to the young upstarts here.
I remember shortly after the inauguration when Peggy Noonan made the statement on Hannity and Colmes that Bush was not "our guy" in the Republican primaries ("our" meaning the Reagan Regiments). Of course Noonan is one of Bush's biggest supporters now and it is clear that W has won the heart of the evangelicals just as Reagan did before him. Now he needs to work more on the fiscal, small government conservatives (redundant) and he will truly be Reagan's heir apparent.