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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Monday, July 19, 2010

Defeat from the jaws of victory?

Commentary By Ron Beasley


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I couldn't help myself - I had to steal this great graphic from The Political Carnival.  In the last week the Republicans have said it's OK to run up the deficit to give tax cuts to the rich but not to help out the unemployed middle class,  all but three Republicans voted against a neutered financial reform bill and they all but admitted that they can't talk about policy because if they did no one would vote for them.  This should have been a great year for the Republicans but are they about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?  While it's too early to tell we do know that Harry Reid was a dead man walking just a few weeks ago he now has a seven point lead over wingnut teatard Sharon Angle.  Florida may turn out to be a loss as now independent Christ has a healthy lead over Teapartier Rubio.  And what should have been a slam dunk in Tennessee  Kentucky became a horse race when Rand Paul won the primary.    Whatever the reason there has been a major shift in the generic congressional poll.


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People are not happy with Obama and the Democrats but they are not happy with the Republicans either.  In 1996 Bob Dole's entire campaign consisted of "I'm not Bill Clinton."  We know how well that worked.  The Republicans are attempting the same strategy in 2010 and have spent the last two years just saying no to everything without presenting an alternate policy with the possible exception of more tax cuts for rich people so they can create more jobs in China. 

It's a long time to November and a lot can happen.  The fired up Republican base is more likely to vote than the Democratic base and who knows what will happen between now and then. The voters may not be happy with Obama and the Democrats inability to fix the economy but they still remember who broke it.

Cross posted at The Moderate Voice



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4 comments:

  1. Colin DayJuly 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM

    Rand Paul is running in Kentucky (not Tennessee), and Bob Dole ran for President in 1996 (not 2006).
    Could we have some fact checking, please?

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  2. Ron BeasleyJuly 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM

    Thanks Colin
    Fact checking has nothing to do with it I was just sloppy. Proof reading rather than fact checking was required.

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  3. CarlJuly 19, 2010 at 7:36 PM

    Whoever wins in November, Dr New Deal will now be replaced by Dr Win-the-War. Obama's liberal agenda is over, such as it is. Now we get to decide who cuts our Social Security and food stamps.

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  4. anna missedJuly 20, 2010 at 9:46 PM

    Actually, I think this assessment is correct. The republicans have lost the bedrock (exceptionalist) trust in the ideology of trust in the marketplace = freedom. And so are left with nothing but the evanescent fumes of fear and (racial) resentment, which is no remedy to the eternal hangover they created. The democrats don't have much, but the republicans got nothin'.

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