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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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Good Job Ohio Dems

By Fester:



Ohio Democrats are sending a real and differentiating signal that should reflect strongly on them when compared to Ohio Republicans.  Ohio Democrats recognize a massive ethics/impropriety situation and are doing something about it by drawing up articles of impeachment against the Democratic state Attorney General:


       
        House Democrats filed articles of impeachment this morning against Attorney General Marc Dann,
charging him with nine counts relating to a sexual harassment scandal that has led to widespread
calls for him to resign.



The articles, sponsored by 42 of 45 House Democrats, contend that Dann warrants impeachment for
"misconduct in office rising to the level of malfeasance, neglect, nonfeasance, gross neglect of
duty, improper exercise of authority and gross immorality."

A pattern is emerging at the state level.  State Democrats are looking at impropriety, corruption and scandals and not trying to defend it.  We saw this with Eliot Spitzer, we saw it in North Carolina and we are seeing this in Ohio.  As I wrote in regards to North Carolina these actions are strong contrasting actions, good politics and good policy:

This is good government, good sense and good politics as almost
everyone involved can point out a concrete action that they took
against self-dealing.  It also serves as a deterrent to anyone who is
interested in self-dealing.  Good job North Carolina, and I wish
Congress would take similiar actions against multiple members (from
each party) as that would help restore some public trust in the
institution.

Keep this up and credibility on good governance will increase and voter cynicism will decrease thus blurring strategies will be less effective.



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