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, November 16, 2010

Lisa's War On Tea

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Yesterday I discussed Lisa Murkowsi's Arctic Cat Fight with Sarah Palin.   Well Lisa is not through - today she went to war with Senate Teabagger Jim DeMint.



�I think some of the Republicans in the Congress feel pretty strongly that he and his actions potentially cost us the majority by encouraging candidates that ended up not being electable,� Murkowski told POLITICO outside her Senate office. �And I think Delaware is a pretty good example of that, and I think there�re some folks that feel that DeMint�s actions didn�t necessarily help the Republican majority.�


Murkowski suggested the South Carolina conservative and favorite of the tea party seemed more interested in bolstering his own political standing rather than that of the Republican Party.


�So the real question is, what�s his desire?� she said. �Does he want to help the Republican majority, or is he on his own agenda, his own initiative?�


Asked what she believed the answer was, Murkowksi said: �I think he�s out for his own initiative.�



I guess Lisa figures she has six years before she has to worry about the Tea Party again and that she can win her war before then.  I don't see this turning out well for the GOP.  And they thought the Democrats had problems with their Dirty F**king Hippie base.



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