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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Monday, April 19, 2010

Josh Gets It Right

Commentary By Ron Beasley

Josh Marshall is spot on here.




You can see our reported
story here about Sen. Snowe's suggestion that she may still be in
play for financial reform -- thus holding out the hope that the Dems can
bust a Republican filibuster.

Since I'm writing here in the opiniony section of the site: I was
just wondering. Aren't we about in the Third Act where Snowe comes in
and jerks the Dems around for a few weeks before getting upset about the
process and joining the filibuster? Thought so. Thanks.

A couple of Republicans will hint that they might support the bill if it's watered down enough so it won't hurt any of their fat cat masters then oppose it anyway.

My advice to the Democrats and Obama - fuck the Republicans.  Dare them to filibuster it and if they do beat them over the head with it over the next few months.  It might not work but it just might and they really have nothing to lose.











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  1. hidflectApril 19, 2010 at 3:32 PM

    Obama uses the rethugs as cover to do what he wants whenever it is antithetical to the left wing. Obama only wants weak reforms and by Dog, he's going to let the right-wing force him to it.

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  2. Ron BeasleyApril 19, 2010 at 3:36 PM

    I fear you are right

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  3. Jonathan GoffApril 20, 2010 at 7:03 AM

    Ron,
    Is this the same Dodd-sponsored bill that had all the stupid changes to angel investor rules? I'll admit I haven't seen the rest of the bill, but at least those proposed rules (one which would over double the required assets and income to be considered an "accredited investor", and one which would require new companies to wait 4 months for SEC approval to raise money even from accredited investors) needs to die badly. I'm actually not opposed to getting rid of "too big to fail" banks and such. It's just that at least that part of Dodd's bill would kill small entrepreneurial companies. Let's make sure that if we're trying to pass a bill to "sock it to the fat cats on Wall Street" that we're not actually writing a bill that screws the small entrepreneurial companies that are a significant portion of the innovation that keeps America's economy great.
    ~Jon

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