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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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Health Care Game

Commentary By Ron Beasley

Ezra Klein has more on Obama's checkers/chess/mah jong health care game.

This is health-care reform's endgame, or close to it. Next
Wednesday, Barack Obama will give a prime-time address before both
houses of Congress. But that's not all he's giving Congress. The
administration is going to put a plan down on paper. The question is
what it will say.

Conversations with a number of White House officials make it clear
that, at this point, even they don't know. The argument was raging as
recently as last night, and appears to have hardened into two main
camps. Both camps agree that the cost of the bill has to come down. The
question is how much, and what can be sacrificed.

I'm not optimistic - "what can be sacrificed".  I fear Obama is playing checkers and what will be sacrificed is anything that would have made health care reform reformational. We all know that the Bush administration was driven by politics and it appears that not much has changed.  That slime ball Axelrod is nothing but Karl Rove Lite.  Not the change that was promised.  Health care is not the only thing that is broken.  A government that is controlled and directed by big business oligarchs has a name - it's fascism. One or two percent of the population have been driven into a teabagger frenzy by the corporatists and FOX news and they are calling the shots.  America's great experiment in government by the people and for the people is finished.  We needed a Teddy or Franklin Roosevelt and we got a Bush lite or a Clinton.





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