Kristol out
Balloon Juice — It looks like the New York Times won’t have Bill Kristol to kick around anymore. From today’s Kristol column: This is William Kristol’s last column. (via)

Kristol Out on his Ass?
d r i f t g l a s s — ... If true, I would have to rate these six words as the happiest to be published by the New York Times as a result their own actions in the last year: ...

All good things come to an end
Rising Hegemon — But then again, so does other stuff: This is William Kristol’s last column.

And how’d that work out for you?
Firedoglake — Hey, can't show him getting pied every time. The most significant, and intelligent, part of Bill Kristol's column in the New York Times wasn't written by him. This is William Kristol’s last column. You may now resume pointing and laughing. Besides the man is still ...

Bye Bye, Bill Kristol
Politics Daily — Kristol's stint at the New York Times lasted only about a year. His final column, titled with the question "Will Obama Save Liberalism?" opened with this statement, sure to strike dread into the hearts of any conservatives who are still paying any attention to anything Kristol has to say ( ...

QOTD: Into the Mystic Edition
If I Ran the Zoo — Bill Kristol is in a reflective mood this morning at the Times: Conservative policies have on the whole worked — insofar as any set of policies can be said to "work" in the real world. Only Kristol could miss the ironies of scare-quoting "work" in the midst of the Great GOP/Economic Meltdown of '09. But speaking of irony, look who's out of "work" himself: This is William Kristol's last column.This'll have a painful multiplier effect around the blogs, believe you me.

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... William Kristol: Although conservatism has failed, let's not forget liberalism sucks and needs to prove itself before the public will accept it as legitimate. I will do my part to sow doubt. And, btw, "This is William Kristol’s last column." ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — UM, WHAT'S YOUR ALLUSION HERE, MR. PRESIDENT? IT'S SO CRYPTIC AND OBSCURE, I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT William Kristol, being willfully obtuse in today's New York Times: ... We don't really know how Barack Obama will govern. What we have so far, mainly, is an Inaugural Address.... Obama's speech was unabashedly pro-American and implicitly conservative. ... He spoke almost not at all about rights (he had one mention of "the rights of man," paired with "the rule of law" in the context of a discussion of the Constitution).... Yeah, ...

The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Obama's opportunity: "Over the next three decades, it was modern conservatism, led at the crucial moment by Ronald Reagan, that assumed the task of defending liberty with strength and confidence. Can a revived liberalism, faced with a new set of challenges, now pick up that mantle?" ...

Wha…?
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Jesse Taylor ”This is William Kristol’s last column.” Dare we dream?

Morning Thread
Eschaton — Changey hope, hopey change, via the NYT: "This is William Kristol’s last column."

Kristol's done at NYT
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Bill, Kristol began his NY Times column today by telling readers that "all good things must come to an end." Kristol was talking about a conservative era, but it could have applied to his column, too. Following the last line was a note to readers: “This is William Kristol’s last column.” ...

Kristol leaves the Times
Political Animal — KRISTOL LEAVES THE TIMES .... At the end of an otherwise uninteresting New York Times column from Bill Kristol, there are six heartening words : This is William Kristol's last column. There's been ...

Bill Kristol's New York Times Column Ends
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... as to whether Bill Kristol will continue his career as a New York Times columnist can end. Buried at the end of his column Monday is this announcement: ...

Bill Kristol is Done
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH Perhaps no other notable conservative has had such an inauspicious tenure than William Kristol at the New York Times. How many columns did he get things completely wrong? Today was his swan song. He killed it too, but at least he got his first facts correct, well, almost. ...

Kristol's Last Column
TalkLeft — Via Attaturk, happy trails to Bill Kristol: This is William Kristol’s last column. After failed stints now at Time and the NYTimes, it is now time for Kristol to make room for some new GOP hacks. Let's make this an Open Thread. Speaking for me only. ...

Kristol's Last Times Column: An Era Of Phoning It In Ends
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... At any rate, Bill Kristol's last column is up today. It's about Obama and Reagan and the end of the conservative era and pride and regrets and Harvey Mansfield and Pearl Harbor. Next week, Bill Kristol will be gone, leaving Times readers more time to read Bono's columns about Palm Pilots and counting to fourteen and writing songs with lots of guitar arpeggios. ...

Kristol's Last Times Column: An Era Of Phoning It In Ends
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... At any rate, Bill Kristol's last column is up today. It's about Obama and Reagan and the end of the conservative era and pride and regrets and Harvey Mansfield and Pearl Harbor. Next week, Bill Kristol will be gone, leaving Times readers more time to read Bono's columns about Palm Pilots and counting to fourteen and writing songs with lots of guitar arpeggios. ...

Bill Kristol's Last Day (But He's Not Gone)
The Washington Note — ... of intellectuals and policy practitioners, spread across numerous think tanks, academic institutions, Congress, and even some inside the Bush administration to nudge the neoconservatives from their privileged spot. My work has been focused on taking that helm away from him and his group of acolytes and making clear that neoconservative hubris and recklessness undermined this nation's place in the world and have sabotaged its power. Bill Kristol has written his last column in the New York Times today in which he marks "the end of the conservative ...

Exit Kristol, Pursued by a Bear
TPMCafe — Bill Kristol's closing words in his close-out sale column: Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country. It's touching, Bill Kristol's long-deferred solicitude for our battered faith, the one whose promise and prowess have not been exactly improved during the many years he and his mates have spent flaying liberalism as synonymous with cowardice, surrender, elitism, moral squalor, and flagrant ...

Kristol Pens Last New York Times Column, Reportedly Heading To The Washington Post
Think Progress — ... . At the conclusion of his Times column today, an editor’s note reads, “This is William Kristol’s last column.” However, Kristol’s last Times scribe is unlikely to be a memorable one, as he meandered back and forth ( ...

Kristol: exit Stage Right
The Reaction — By Mustang Bobby. The New York Times has a brief announcement at the bottom of William Kristol's column today: This is William Kristol’s last column. In a way I'm sorry to see him go; he's always been good for a laugh or a shake of the head first thing on a Monday morning, and I appreciated the glimpse into the wonderful world of Neo-Con Cloud Cuckooland where everybody is white and straight and Ronald Reagan is forever the president while the flag snaps in the breeze in that shining city on the hill. And his final ...

Honeymoon's Over-- Reactionaries On The Attack
DownWithTyranny! — ... I gather that this explosion of reaction on CNN is just part of a right-wing push back against Obama, in the hope of driving his approval ratings down in front of the Stimulus Package debate. In this morning's All the most devoted enemies of working families, the most faithful corporate shills serving the interests of Big Business are out in full force. NY Times resident imbecile, Irving Kristol's unfortunate son, started out regurgitating the same column he writes everyday-- "Conservative policies have on the whole worked" and "liberalism has become hardly more than a ...

Bill Kristol's Last Day (But He's Not Gone)
TPMCafe — ... of intellectuals and policy practitioners, spread across numerous think tanks, academic institutions, Congress, and even some inside the Bush administration to nudge the neoconservatives from their privileged spot. My work has been focused on taking that helm away from him and his group of acolytes and making clear that neoconservative hubris and recklessness undermined this nation's place in the world and have sabotaged its power. Bill Kristol has written his last column in the New York Times today in which he marks "the end of the conservative era." ...

Quote For The Day
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — "This is William Kristol's last column," - New York Times.

Job security for the perpetually wrong
Political Animal — ... of Bill Kristol, who wrote his final column for the paper today. What we didn't know is where Kristol is headed. Keep his career trajectory in mind. Kristol, in 2007, wrote misguided, predictable, and dull columns for Time magazine. When Time fired him, the New York Times decided he'd be a great addition to its stable of columnists. Now, after a year of misguided, predictable, and dull columns, the New York Times has fired him, and ... wait for it ... the Washington Post is ready to pick him up. By way of ...

Liberal Blogs Cheer Kristol's NYT Departure
News — ... Weekly Standard editor William Kristol's column in today's New York Times was his last, drawing jubilation from liberal bloggers on Monday. A short editor's note at the end of the column says: "This is William Kristol’s last column," on which blogs quickly picked up Monday morning. "You may now resume pointing and laughing," ...

Kristol's Last Stand in The New York Times
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... 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. ...

NSN Daily Update 1/26/09
democracyarsenal.org — ... Bill Kristol’s last column for the New York Times asks if Barack Obama can save liberalism, and notes that “All good things must come to an end.  Jan. 20, 2009, marked the end of a conservative era.” ...

Why the Devil smiles
The Sideshow — ... - Just as we were all set to be jubilant over the words in the NYT at the end of his latest, saying, "This is William Kristol's last column," we learn that he's got a new job - at The Washington Post. ...

Which President Did Obama Sound Like?
The Washington Note — ... Even Bill Kristol found the Obama address one that resonated with themes in Roosevelt's rhetoric -- both drawing on Thomas Paine. ...

All good things come to those who wait
WTF Is It Now?!? — The NYT finally shitcans fuckfaced imbecile Bill "Always Wrong" Kristol, who defends his record to the very last: ...

Bill Kristol Ends Reign of Error at New York Times
The BRAD BLOG — ... Looks like it'll be back to Wingnut Welfare and Fox "News" (same thing) for the constantly-wrong "mainstream" propagandist Bill Kristol, whose column in the New York Times today, ends with a singular ed note: "This is William Kristol’s last column." ...

"This is William Kristol’s last column."
Crooks and Liars — ... It's official: Bill Kristol no longer writes a column for the New York Times. Sadly, it took the Old Grey Lady more than a year to realize that Kristol was not only an ideological hack, but a ...

are we clear? kristol!
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... the new york times’ decision not to renew bill kristol’s opinion column was because of the conservative writer’s sloppiness and uneven quality, according to a reliable source with first-hand knowledge of the decision. today, the times features a signature kristol piece, discussing the heroic role of conservatism in modern american history and contrasting this with the fecklessness of american liberals. but only the last line is newsworthy: “this is william kristol’s last column.”… ...

the end of an error
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda — ... UPDATED below. It wasn't easy, but I read all of today's Bill Kristol column in the NYT. But the last line made my suffering worthwhile: ...

Hard Times for Our Founding Documents
The American Spectator — ... a conflation of language from the American and French Revolutions in President Obama's Inaugural Address. Kangor was right to question the curious way that Obama and his head speech writer skated past the centrality of life as an inalienable right. Unlike Bill Kristol, I do not regard the Inaugural Address as "unabashedly pro-American and implicitly conservative." There is more to conservatism, and more to patriotism, than willingness to acknowledge our founding fathers. The sleight of hand in the ...

Hey Pundits, Why The Long Face?
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... has lightened up on the economy. Across the spectrum, pundits are finding plenty to gripe about, with conservatives balking at Obama's alleged socialism, moderates wearying of his administration's unpredictable approach to the banking crisis, and even liberals wondering whether he is too cool for comfort. Here's a brief rundown of each pundit's two month trajectory. CONSERVATIVES Bill Kristol: At first he thought Obama might usher in a conservatism-killing era. Now, he spies the glimmers of a con-comeback. ...

Unedited: Bill Kristol on The Daily Show
The Moderate Voice — ... No one is more media savvy than Bill Kristol (even if he did land a big belly-flop at the NYTimes). Last night he was Jon Stewart’s guest on ...