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, September 13, 2010

Dave Cohen Writes A Letter

Commentary By Ron Beasley




Dave Cohen has written a letter to Barack Obama.  Go read the entire thing but here is a snip from the end.

If you're concerned with losing politically, don't worry about it. You've already lost, you've got nothing
to lose, you're already fucked! More than ever, Mr. President, it's
time to level with the American people. It's time to Go Big Or Go Home.
After all, you can't do any worse at this point.





I initially supported Hillary Clinton in the primaries because my gut told me that Obama was an empty suit.  I should have listened to my gut - it was right.  Obama inherited the greatest economic disaster since the great depression.  What did he do?  Dave explains:

Right from the start of your administration, you demonstrated that
you had no clue about the depth of the economic crisis facing America.
You did that by hiring the same clowns who fostered today's disaster in
the 1990s when they were working for Bill Clinton. These Friends of Bob
Rubin, people like Larry Summers, who is the unholy spawn of the Prince
of Darkness, were never going to admit that it was their policies�pushing financial deregulation and home ownership to enable the Wall Street takeover�that got us into today's mess.



And then you rehired Ben Bernanke, who as far as I can see, or any
other observer who is not brain dead can see, has never been right about
anything. To this day, Ben will not admit that there was a Housing
Bubble! That should tell you something right there.





We needed an FDR and instead we got a cross between Bill Clinton and Herbert Hoover.



Dave doesn't go into the continued attempts at empire expansion but that's another failure and another reason that Obama will go down as one of the sorriest Presidents ever.  But we should spread the blame - the Democratic lawmakers have been no better.  The Democratic Party will see some big loses in 2010 and they will have no one to blame but themselves and here is an example.



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