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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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Looking Ahead to 2012

Commentary By Ron Beasley




The headline reads: Obama vs. the Republicans.  Yes it would appear that Obama is on the campaign trail in advance of the midterm elections.  He sounds like Obama the politician but does he really care if the Republicans take the House?  Looking ahead to 2012 I'm not so sure he would.  He's looking at two years where he's not going to be able to get any policy approved anyway - even if the Republicans don't take control of the House they will be close.  If the Republicans take control he will have someone else to blame two years from now.  And bring on the tea party, please.  What could be better than the hapless John Boehner as House Majority Leader and a House full of Michelle Bachmans spending all of their time trying to impeach the President because he is a Kenyon born Muslim Marxist to turn off the independents and the few remaining sane Republicans.  The economy is not going to improve over the next two years and in fact may actually get worse.  Let the Republicans shut down the government and take part of the blame.

The Republicans will get a bounce this year but it will be a "dead cat bounce" and dead cats only bounce once.



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