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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Sunday, May 23, 2010

The Change That Wasn't

Commentary By Ron Beasley



The Sunday Morning must read is this from my friend Steve Soto on the so called financial reform bill.

No Glass-Steagall; no protection from it all happening again. And
our own Democratic president is still carrying water for Wall Street and
the banks. No wonder many voters can't tell the difference anymore.



There was a historic opportunity here to prevent a predatory Wall
Street from savaging Main Street, and yet Barack Obama couldn't be
bothered. Simply put, when (not if) it happens again, Barack Obama and
the Democratic Party will be to blame.





We were hopping for an FDR but Limbaugh is right - FDR is dead and instead we got a Clinton. We should be surprised - the United States is now officially an Oligarchy.



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  1. waltMay 23, 2010 at 3:03 AM

    Yeah, the guy who steered HCR - which has been a Democratic touchstone since World War II - into being is clearly just another Clinton.
    Please.

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  2. Ron BeasleyMay 23, 2010 at 3:50 AM

    Walt
    HCR was a joke - a political win for Obama but a win for the Oligarchs of the medical industrial complex too. It was a Republican bill that was opposed by the Republicans because they oppose everything Obama does. The same can be said for the financial reform bill.

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