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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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Bad News For Democrats

Commentary By Ron Beasley



Christine O'Donnel, the tea party candidate, has apparently won the Republican primary for the Senate.  This pretty much guarantees a Democratic win in Delaware.  Now you might think this was a good thing for the Democrats as it makes it unlikely the Republicans will take control of the Senate - you would be wrong.  Nothing constructive is going to happen the next two years no matter who controls the House and the Senate.  But that really doesn't matter because there is really nothing lawmakers can do to fix the too broken to fix economy.  So looking ahead to 2012 the best thing for the Democrats is to share the blame.  The best possible scenario for the Democrats is a House full of Teatards spending all of their time as lawmakers trying to impeach Obama for being a Kenyon born anti colonialist Marxist while the economy burns.  The republicans taking control of the House would be a Democratic victory.  The Republicans taking control of the Senate as well would be a double victory. 



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