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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Thursday, June 17, 2010

I do so love Republicans

By BJ Bjornson


Because no matter how feckless and ineffective you find the Dems in dealing with big boys of corporatism like the banksters and BP, you can be rest assured the Repubs will find a way to remind us just how much more beholden they are to ensuring no pain is felt by the not-�small people�.


A day after top BP officials met with President Barack Obama at the White House and agreed to set up a $20 billion compensation fund, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas called the money a "shakedown" of the company and apologized for the president's action.


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His opinions aren't those of the Republican Party, Barton said, they were his alone. But other GOP members of Congress on Thursday echoed his remarks. Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., who heads the House's conservative Republican Study Commission, said there was "no legal authority for the President to compel a private company to set up or contribute to an escrow account."




After all, trying to get the company most responsible for a major and ongoing disaster to actually pay for the consequences is clearly a horrible, horrible thing to do. Well, it is in that parallel universe where Republicans and CEOs live in. In the world where us �small people� live, the story is quite a bit different. As Matt Y. pointed out, the public appears to be looking for even more than a mere �shakedown� when it comes to BP. Tony Hayward�s head on a spike seems to be closer to what some people are clamoring for, not that Obama will get much if any credit from the business community for heading such an outcome off, or from the left for getting this fund set up.



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