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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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

More Halperin - Republicans and Financial Reform

Commentary By Ron Beasley



I had a video of Mark Halperin refusing to stand up for the Republican position on financial reform below.  Well he made a second appearance on Hardball this afternoon.



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Halperin was even more blunt than he was on Morning Joe.  He said something interesting:

you can't sustain something if you don't believe it and it isn't true.
You can have one or the other, but not both

The Republican's are lying and they know it but the reason they will get behind it because they know it would be politically damaging not to be as much as they would like to deny Obama and the Democrats a victory.  As I said below the Democrats have the high ground here and I hope the realize - don't give up anything, the bill is already too weak.  The voters - all of them hate Wall Street.  The Republican base may not like big government but the one place they want it is control of Wall Street.  This is a win-win for the Democrats and a lose-lose for the Republicans.

Halperin also predicted we won't see a bill soon but it will be the Democrats that try to drag it out - the closer to the election the bill is passed the better for the Democrats.  The Democratic lawmakers even have the opportunity to force Obama to do more than he really wants to do.



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