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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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Just What We Need

Commentary By Ron Beasley




Just what we need - another incompetent CEO in government.  You would have thought that eight years of Bush and Cheney would have been enough but California Republicans don't think so.  Of course I'm talking about Carly Fiorina.  You remember her:

Here�s a fact for you, Portfolio magazine named Fiorina the �19th Worst CEO of All-Time��placing
her in the top 20 along with the likes of Dick Fuld, Ken Lay, Roger
Smith and Bernie Ebbers.  Why? Because her
tenure as CEO of Hewlett Packard was a disaster.



The magazine described Fiorina as �a consummate self-promoter� who
�paid herself handsome bonuses and perks while laying off thousands of
employees to cut costs. The merger Fiorina orchestrated with Compaq in
2002 was widely seen as a failure. She was ousted in 2005.�





And Fiorina is pushing herself as a jobs creator.  True if you are talking about jobs in China.  But as those of us on the west coast who drive by vacant HP facilities know she wasn't too big on US jobs.

While promoting herself as a job creator, the reality is Fiorina proved
much more adept as a jobs killer.  In fact, she referred to
offshoring as �right-shoring�,
and fired at least 18,000 people.  Fiorina told Fortune she �should have done them all faster."

Now the Democrats and Boxer should have plenty of ammunition to use against Carly - many of those jobs she shipped to China were California jobs.  Like the rest of the country the voters are rightly unhappy with incumbents but is Carly Fiorina  a solution.  I think not:

�God, what is that hair?� she said, laughing.  �Sooo
yesterday.�

So far, she�s refused to apologize to
Boxer.

Actually, what is �so yesterday� is outsourcing, offshoring, and
self-promotion.  If California�s campaign is about judgment
and values, Boxer will be just fine.



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