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

Reform

Commentary By Ron Beasley



No one was willing to bail out Morning Joe on the bailouts:



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Even MSM stooge Halperin won't go to bat for the Democrats Republicans.  Mitch McConnell  is even singing a slightly different tune.

A Democratic Wall Street overhaul bill may be gaining an unlikely
champion: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).


After a week of attacking the pending legislation as a ticket to new
taxpayer "bailouts," McConnell is striking a different tone. Monday on
the Senate floor, he called for lawmakers to move beyond "personal
attacks and questioning each others' motives" to "fixing the problems in
this bill."


And McConnell conceded, after being chastised by no less than President
Obama in his weekly radio address, that "both parties agree on this
point: no bailouts. In my view, that's a pretty good start."

The Democrats have the upper hand and they need not concede too much - the bill is already inadequate.  The Republicans are coming to the realization that a filibuster will hurt them.



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  1. Jonathan GoffApril 20, 2010 at 10:12 AM

    Ron,
    Not to sound like a broken record, but one of the problems that needs to be fixed is the proposed changes to rules on angel investors. The financial meltdown had nothing to do with Angel Investors or the startups they fund, but the proposed changes would really hurt small entrepreneurial businesses.
    This isn't the most detailed article, but it mentions the three big issues: http://bit.ly/cNPdnC
    Not saying I necessarily disagree with anything else in the bill (I'm anti-bailout, anti-too-big-to-fail, etc). Just saying that if we're fixing stuff, make sure they don't screw the little guys on Main Street in an effort to reign in Wall Street.
    ~Jon

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  2. SRW1April 20, 2010 at 10:28 AM

    Even MSM stooge Halperin won't go to bat for the Democrats.
    You meant even Halperin wasn't prepared to go bat for the REPUBLICANS?

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  3. Ron BeasleyApril 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM

    Thanks SRW1 - fixed

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