Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

It's The Economy

By Ron Beasley



Better Are you better off than you were seven years ago?  Are you better off than you were even a year ago?  Only a quarter of Americans say they are better off.



Voter pessimism over finances likely to influence polls



WASHINGTON � Americans are more downbeat about their personal financial situations now than they've been in decades, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, an attitude likely to dominate this year's presidential and congressional elections.

A 55% majority of those surveyed say their families are worse off financially than they were a year ago � the highest number since Gallup first asked the question in 1976 and a jump of 11 percentage points since February.



Just 26% say they are better off.



As the presidential primary season ends today with contests in Montana and South Dakota, the nationwide survey finds Illinois Sen. Barack Obama beginning to consolidate Democrats' support as the issue landscape for the fall is being shaped.



Obama now edges the presumptive Republican nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, by 47%-44% among registered voters. A month ago, McCain was ahead by 47%-45%. Both leads are within the margin of error of +/� 4 percentage points.

As I have pointed out here before John McCain is not just "McSame" when it comes to reckless foreign policy he is "McSame: when it comes to reckless economics as well.  His association with his chief economic adviser, Phil Gramm, and Gramm's involvement with every economic catastrophe in the last seven years cannot be emphasized enough.



Update



I'm glad to see that the big guns are picking up the Gramm story.



The Left Coaster



Washington Monthly





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