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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Friday, July 24, 2009

No ideas so just say no!

Commentary By Ron Beasley


As we have noted here before the Republican "congressional leaders" were chosen during during the Bush/Cheney administration and being incapable of original thought was a feature not a bug.  But Bush and Cheney are gone and all that's left are the dullards who gladly walked in lockstep with the Bush administration.  As a result Congressional Republicans are an idea free zone. 



As Fineman says the Party of Rush, Newt and Cheney(Liz) has no health care plan and has no intention of having a health care plan.  Their only plan is to make sure the Democrat's plan never sees the light of day.  But that applies to everything the Democrats want to do.  Their only hope for regaining power is for a massive failure on the part of the Democrats.  That  involves not just health care but the economy as well.  And of course they have their allies - the Blue Dog Democrats.


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