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, April 27, 2009

The Politics of Obstruction

By BJ Bjornson


At some point you almost have to feel sorry for the Republicans. I mean, what are the odds that within weeks of your railing against the waste of spending $900 million on pandemic flu preparation, you would wind up with a potential pandemic flu. Seriously, if I were the type to believe in supernatural beings, I would have to be wondering if said being wasn�t sending somebody a message right about now.


It is also significant to note that the Republicans are helpfully holding up the nomination of Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. After all, we wouldn�t want the department at the forefront of the fight against this possible pandemic to have any kind of leadership, would we?


Playing politics has consequences. Hopefully the American people, who are going to have to bear the consequences of these games, won�t suffer too badly as a result.



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