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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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Big Comeback For The Republicans in 2010?

Commentary By Ron Beasley

The media seems to think the Republicans can make big gains in 2010.  But as John Amato points out they refuse to report on just how unpopular the Republicans remain.

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As this Research 2000 poll shows the Democrats still have a double digit approval rating lead over the Republicans and while the Democrat's favorability has been dropping the Republicans has been dropping as fast if not faster.  On the House side John Boehner's numbers make Cheney look popular.  

Does this mean the Republicans can't make big gains in 2010?  Sadly the answer is no.  The Republican base of birthers, deathers and anti-abortion/anti-gay theocrats will show up to vote.  The Democratic base is not at all happy with their politicians and there is a danger they will simply stay home on election day.  The Republicans realize you can't win without your base - the Democrats don't seem to appreciate that.  With polls showing over 60 percent of the country supporting a public option why is there even any discussion of health care reform without it?



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  1. E LSeptember 26, 2009 at 10:16 AM

    "why is there even any discussion of health care reform without it?" The US Senate.

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