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, February 22, 2010

Kucinich Warned You There'd Be No Public Option

By Steve Hynd


There's absolutely no provision for any kind of public option in Obama's new healthcare plan.


Don't say you weren't warned.



When questioned about whether the blue-dog Democrats were in effect siding with the Republicans and/or the health care industry Kucinich said,



�It�s my opinion that the blue dogs are doing exactly what the white house wants them to do. The public option was a trial balloon. I can not stress how cynical and brutal the politics are. This is not about the public option. Anyone looking for the public option needs to look someplace else. It is not going to happen and anybody who says it is is in fantasy land.�


Bought and sold for corporate gold - what a parcel of rogues in a nation.



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  1. geoffFebruary 22, 2010 at 11:03 AM

    A quick survey of mainstream progressive opinion makers - that is an oxymoron isn't it - and all seem to be calling for the passing any legislation and seem happy as pigs-in-sh*& with the Senate Bill aka Obama's March gift. The WH & Obama will just have to crank up the spinning machine and sell the dog's-breakfast. Besides the only thing Obama seems good at, and comfortable with, is selling fantasy.

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