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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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Off To The Races

Commentary By Ron Beasley





Derby I don't know if it was because Mitch McConnell wanted to go to the Kentucky Derby or because he knew he'd lost the game of chicken but he and the Republicans surrendered today. 



With political pressure mounting, Senate Republicans relented on Wednesday and agreed to let Democrats open debate on legislation that would impose the most far-reaching overhaul of the nation�s financial regulatory system since the aftermath of the Depression.




The decision by Republicans to allow floor deliberations came after
they voted three days in a row to block the bill, and it suggested that
they saw political peril in being depicted as impeding tougher rules
for Wall Street.




But Republicans still oppose many aspects of the bill, and a rough floor
fight lies ahead.




Senate Republicans still control enough votes to filibuster and prevent the bill from being
adopted.





This was a horse race the Republicans knew they would lose.  Timing is everything and the greedy sociopaths from Goldman Sachs being unapologeticaly sociopathic  sealed the deal.  It's true that the Republicans can still filibuster the final bill but will they? Do they dare?



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