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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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Dithering?

Commentary By Ron Beasley



I covered the dangerous senile rantings of the old fool David Broder here yesterday morning.



It's still getting some play over at memeorandum this morning.



Mem11-15



Steve Benen has a great reaction:

I realize there's been a painful decline in the quality of Broder's
analysis in recent years, but this column is a mess. He's effectively
calling for President Obama to act and think more like President Bush
-- make decisions first, and think through the consequences and
implications second.



Worse, Broder goes so far as to castigate the administration for
"all this dithering" -- using Dick Cheney's preferred choice of words.





The New York Times in an amazing grasp of the obvious moment tells us we can't afford the Afghan war at one million dollars a soldier.



This brings us to the most amazing reaction of all.  After the Bush administration and the Republicans spent eight years destroying the economy and busting the budget Jack Moss over at Macs(lack of)mind has the nerve to ask:



Did Obama Bankrupt the Country to the Point it Can't Defend itself?

Of course "politically volatile spending", such as bailing out banks,
Wall Street, Newspapers and God knows who else is just fine.

Hey Jack, apparently you forgot that bailing out the banks and Wall Street was a continuation of Bush administration policy.  And yes I disagreed when Bush did it and I disagreed when Obama continued it but that's one "bankruptcy" you can't entirely blame on Obama.



1 comment:

  1. "the urgent necessity is to make a decision -- whether or not it is right"
    When I read this quote, I knew people would start wondering if Broder is senile.

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