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, April 22, 2010

If He Only Had A Brain - Part II

Commentary By Ron Beasley



As I pointed out here Mitch McConnell came off looking like a fool when he used Frank Luntz talking points to attack the financial reform bill.  As many of the Republican Senators have jumped Mitch's ship he has gone silent.  No so for his even less intelligent equivalent in the House, John Boehner.  Via TPM



President Obama's 'TARP Forever' Act

Under his proposal, the largest Wall Street firms would become
eligible for special treatment, including taxpayer-funded resources
unavailable to smaller financial firms. These include exclusive access
to a pre-existing bailout fund, a Treasury-backed line of credit and a
government guarantee for any debt.

Such perks will benefit the likes of Goldman Sachs, President Obama's
top financial contributor during the 2008 campaign and a firm that just
happens to be under investigation by the SEC for defrauding investors.

Some special treatment - the largest banks will be broken up, the officers will be unemployed and the investors will get nothing.  Boehner's argument has been shot down by MSM stooge Mark Halperin - twice.

I'll repeat what I said here:

As I have pointed out before the current Republican leadership in the
House and Senate were chosen for their willingness to walk in lockstep
with the Bush administration and blindly repeat Rovian talking points. 
They were not chosen for intelligence or original thought.


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