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, February 28, 2012

The Tea Party Bags Another Rino

Commentary By Ron Beasley


One of the few remaining sane Republicans in the Senate has had it.  Another case of the party left her I would guess.



Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe will not seek reelection in 2012, she announced Tuesday.


In announcing her plans, Snowe, 65, emphasized that she is in good health and was prepared for the campaign ahead. But she said she was swayed by the increasing polarization in Washington.


�Unfortunately, I do not realistically expect the partisanship of recent years in the Senate to change over the short term,� Snowe said in a statement. �So at this stage of my tenure in public service, I have concluded that I am not prepared to commit myself to an additional six years in the Senate, which is what a fourth term would entail.�



This is a blow to the Republicans' hope to take back the Senate.  Like in many parts of the country the Maine Republican party has been taken over by tea party wingnuts.



Snowe�s retirement represents a major setback for the GOP�s efforts to regain a majority in the Senate. As a moderate Republican, she may be the party�s only hope to hold a seat in the strongly blue state.



Perhaps they can get Christine O�Donnell to move to Maine.  The lunatics are taking over the asylum and the sane people are running to the exits.  Can Dick Lugar be far behind?


Cross posted at The Moderate Voice



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