Bill Kristol's Last NYT Article

[lame54]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/596

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White

I'll miss Bill Kristol.

The "error-prone neo-conservative Sarah Palin booster," as Jason Linkins called him this morning, published his last column in The New York Times today. It was an irrational call to arms to all conservatives to block President Barack Obama at every opportunity, so that liberalism can fail and neo-conservatism can rise again.

"If Reagan's policies had failed, or if he hadn't been politically successful, the conservative ascendancy would have been nipped in the bud. So with President Obama today. Liberalism's fate rests to an astonishing degree on his shoulders. If he governs successfully, we're in a new political era. If not, the country will be open to new conservative alternatives."

Kristol's message? Nip Obama in the bud. Don't let even one of his proposals make it though without a fight, even if they are good for the country.

The thing that was so great about this final column of Kristol's (other than the fact that I won't see his mistake-laden tirades in The Times anymore) is that it made Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman's column, just on the other side of the op-ed page, shine. Krugman deftly dissected the conservative arguments against Obama's stimulus package as only an expert economist could.

He knocked down all of the arguments made against the program (cost-per-job-created numbers, the supposed superiority of tax cuts to public spending and the paper tiger solution of monetary policy) and showed them to be "obvious cheap shots" and "fundamentally fraudulent antistimulus arguments." He goes on:

"Basically, conservatives are throwing any objection they can think of against the Obama plan, hoping that something will stick."

At least Krugman will still be around to tell it like it is. And even though the think-tank ideologue won't be around to contrast his extremist punditry with Krugman's measured knowledge, we'll just have to let brilliance speak for itself.

[whistle]

1. Bill Kristol sounds shattered

[aquart]

2. Why is it his last column?

Did the NYT fire his ass, I hope?

[aquart]

3. Oh, and uh...Reagan's policies did fail. That's why we're here.

[rurallib]

4. Prove that it won't work by never giving it a chance?

I gotta guess the NYT fired your ass because of your sheer stupidity and pride in it.
As for St. Ronnie's glorious conservative revolution? It is on the dung heap of history with that earlier version from the 1920s. I am sure the NYT is trying to stop you from embarrassing you any more.
edit to add - and like the 1930s, the American people once again turn to Democrats to save their kiesters from the glorious conservative revolution. Give it a chance to work Billy.