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, December 19, 2009

Simple Answers to Simple Questions (Bernacke Edition)

By Dave Anderson:

Matt Yglesias is being obtuse as he feigns confusion as to why Senate Republicans are voting against Bernacke despite Bernacke's promise to tie the anchor of 10% unemployment around the Democrats' necks for the next five years. 

it�s somewhat baffling to me that six Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee voted no on his nomination. Bernanke�s approach, at the end of the day, makes GOP wins in 2010 and 2012 very likely.


To have it both ways --- get ahead of bash the bankers crowd that is legitimately pissed off @ 10% unemployment and a decade of no-wage gains already and the prospect of another decade of stagnant wages (if we are lucky), and get the policy that will produce 10% unemployment... smart politics on the part of the Republican Party. 

Liberals and Democrats hung Heckuva Job Brownie and Bernie Kerik around Bush's neck.  Those millstones stuck because one lose a city and the other was amazingly indictable as soon as anyone with grand jury access decided to take a look at him.  Both individuals epitomized the basic critique of the Bush Administration's policy (non)making system and its attendant results. 

Republicans are attempting to hang Bernacke around Obama's neck as a symbol of tolerated incompetence and promotion after unacceptable results.  And guess what, I think it will work as the GOP will run ads that say ' Senator X voted for Bernacke to be appointed, after Bernacke said he was fine with 10% unemployment.  Conservative Candidate Y approves this message because he wants to put America back to work again..."



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