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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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Mary Landrieu - Oil Slick, LA

Commentary By Ron Beasley




This is Mary Landrieu on May 5th:

Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu suggested Wednesday that her fellow
Democratic colleague, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, is trying to put
oil companies �out of business� by increasing the amount of money they�d
be forced to pay for catastrophic leaks.

Mary Landrieu today:

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Thursday that President Barack Obama
will pay a political price for his lack of visibility in the Gulf region
during the catastrophic BP oil spill.



�The president has not been as visible as he should have been on this,
and he�s going to pay a political price for it, unfortunately,� Landrieu
told POLITICO. �But he�s going down tomorrow, he�s made some good
announcements today, and if he personally steps up his activity, I think
that would be very helpful.� 

This woman is the lowest of the low.  A slave to her masters at big oil who doesn't give a damned about the people of Louisiana, the people of the United States or the Democratic party.  



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