In 2009, writesPolitico,"Krauthammer has emerged in the Age of Obama as a central conservativevoice, the kind of leader of the opposition that economist andNew York TimescolumnistPaul Krugmanrepresented for the left during the Bush years: a coherent, sophisticated and implacable critic of the new president. “New York TimescolumnistDavid Brookssays that today "he's the most important conservative columnist.