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.


----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Small-State U.S. Senators on the Take Eviscerate Health Care

By Hootsbuddy



My long time friend Deborah White has put together a powerful post. I have asked her permission to copy it here in its entirety. With her permission I aim to replace this little snip with the entire article. She says, in part...



...six senators who apparently either don't know or don't give a damn about the vast majority of Americans are going to kill health care for them and their families?



This is wrong. Just plain wrong.



Truthfully, it has me wondering whether the U.S. Senate has evolved into an undemocratic entity never envisioned by our country's forefathers, due to today's extreme differences in state-by-state populations.



One thing I do know: the U.S. Senate in 2009 is a cesspool of conscience-free fat-cat politicians governed by an undemocratic seniority system and influenced by the lobbyists who pay them.



While it will never happen in my lifetime, the hard, hard truth is that the citizens of the United States, as a whole, would be better served if the U.S. Senate was significantly reformed and more fairly apportioned... or entirely dissolved.


Posted by at

1 comment:

  1. HootsbuddyJuly 31, 2009 at 12:56 AM

    That blog is a NY Times property and getting official permission is not worth the trouble, so go read her post there.
    Also, Fester's next item is a call to action for anyone living among some of the key constituencies of a few Blue Dogs.
    http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2009/07/blue-dog-primary-list.html

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)