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, October 1, 2009

More of this please

Commentary By Ron Beasley



At least Tom Harkin realizes the Republicans are only interested in stopping anything the Democrats and Obama want to do.



Harkin: No place for GOP at Senate health-bill table

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin said today Republicans will not be at the table
when the Senate merges the health-care bills from two committees before
sending one to the floor.



Harkin, a Democrat and chairman of one of the committees, also said
any bill that passes Congress will include a government-run insurance
option for Americans to buy.



�We will have a bill on the president�s desk before Christmas, a
health-reform bill. It will have a lot of good stuff in it. It will
have a lot of prevention and wellness programs in there that I�ve been
fighting for,� Harkin told reporters in a morning conference call. �And
it will have a public option.�



[......]



Asked whether Republicans would be at the table when Harkin�s
committee�s bill is merged with legislation pending in the Senate
Finance Committee, Harkin said no.



�No, this will be a proposal by the Democrats to bring a bill on the
floor. And that�s what I have said before, that the people of this
country � I keep saying � the people of this country pretty
overwhelmingly elected Barack Obama last fall and to make changes,� he
said. �The people of this country overwhelmingly elected Democrats to
the House and Senate.�





The party of NO has no ideas and nothing to add to the discussion.



Update:



Perhaps we are going to get more of this.



Reid: Final health bill will have a 'public option'



U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said today there will be a "public option" in whatever health insurance reform bill comes out of Congress.

"We are going to have a public option before this bill goes to the president's desk," Reid said in a conference call with constituents, referring to some kind of government plan.

"I believe the public option is so vitally important to create a level playing field and prevent the insurance companies from taking advantage of us," he said.

Is Harry waking up?



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