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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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Theocrat GOP vs Free-Market Stem Cells

By Cernig



Sully has a sorry tale to tell of theocrats stifling free enterprise and free choice: the 2008 Republican Platform calls for a ban on all embryonic stem-cell research, public or private.

Does McCain agree with this? The Christianists just gave the Democrats one hell of a reverse wedge issue. McCain's GOP is now officially more neocon than Bush in foreign policy and more theocon in social policy. It is an intensification - not a rebuke - of the Bush-Cheney model of conservatism.

I'd rather ask "does it matter if McCain agrees with this?" He'll vocally support it whether he really does or not. He's already been warned to stay in line, according to Matthew Benjamim of Bloomberg..

the platform can be a harbinger of new directions the party is likely to go, and conservatives say McCain would do well to pay attention to it.



``When we didn't do what Bob Dole wanted he just went out and said he wasn't going to pay attention to it anyway,'' said Phyllis Schlafly, the founder of the advocacy group Eagle Forum, who has been active in Republican politics since 1952. ``And we know what happened to Bob Dole.''

McCain has been utterly AWOL during the drafting of the GOP platform - I mean he hasn't had a single word to say on it. It differs with his own positions on issues including immigration, stem-cell research and climate change. "McCain aides have said they don't plan to engage a fight over platform positions,"



McCain doesn't care what he'll be called to lead on, he'll just pivot on any previous personal positions and back what his base tells him to. He's a good little marrionette.



"Maverick?" "Personal Courage?" Don't make me laugh.



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