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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Friday, July 22, 2011

GOP, Perry Gain On "Meh" Factor

By Steve Hynd


This from Pew Research is worrying Democrat strategists looking to 2012, I'm sure:


Pew GOP Gains 
The GOP is up across the board, but especially among the poor and the young - as well as among white men. While the last might be written off as partially an effect of undeniable racism ginned up by the GOP, the first two cannot. And the fault lies entirely with a Democrat administration and congressional leadership which have delivered nothing - nada, zip - of real worth to the poorest or to American youth in the last three years. Youth unemployemnt is still way too high, and the poorest segment of the population has very definitely not seen the Democrats go to the wire to try to help them in any way - or even to defend them. The Dem leadership would rather vote corporatist as a party ticket.


I've argued before that the poorest segment of society is not represented by the Dems any more than it is the GOP - and that there are enough numbers out there to create a viable third party that would represent Labor and the common people, if only we could escape the inevitable "most important election EVAH!" fearmongering from Dems every cycle followed by their inevitable bowing to a corporatist agenda.


But it's not going to happen this cycle. Look who is trending.



A CNN/ORC International Poll released Friday indicates that 14 percent of Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP pick Perry as their first choice for their party's nomination, just two points behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who's making his second bid for the White House. Romney's two point margin over Perry is within the survey's sampling error.



A Texas governor who panders to the neocons on foreign policy and the theocrats on domestic. Dems inside the beltway must be sallivating at the prospect of spinning 2012 as Obama vs Dubya II. If they're not careful they'll salivate themsleves right into a loss.



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