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, June 11, 2008

Hell No!

By Cernig



Via Matt at Think Progress, who notes that John McCain's always been a fan of Darth Cheney's, comes a Politico revelation that should be word one on anyones list why McSame shouldn't be the next Darth puppet Republican in the White House.

Going further, McCain even told Hayes in comments heretofore unpublished that he�d consider Cheney for an administration post.



Asked whether he�d be interested in Cheney had the vice president not already have served under Bush for two terms, McCain said: �I don�t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.�



Is there actually a cabinet office of "Puppetmaster"?



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  1. BJ BjornsonJune 11, 2008 at 1:43 PM

    You make this sound like a bad thing, Cernig. Seriously, a couple weeks back when "Yosemite" Bolton penned one of his "we need to bomb Iran" rants, some of the right were calling on McCain to announce he had a place for Bolton in his administration, and I was going, "Please, please, please!"
    The more tightly McCain binds himself together with the neo-crazies of the Bush years, the easier it is to paint him as Bush's successor. And short of announcing a position for Bush himself in a McCain administration, making such a promise for Cheney is about as close as you can get.

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