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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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Altmire's recent votes

By Dave Anderson:

I've been tough on Altmire and I still think that he faces an uphill battle for re-election as I have a very hard time seeing where he will get his doorknockers to rouse an apathetic Democratic base in a Tea Party friendly district.  He has voted against unions, healthcare, progressive organizations (Move-On and ACORN), the stimulus, and choice.  He does not have a lot of friends left, but his basic argument is that he is the best that the Democrats can expect out of a rapidly trending Republican district. 

However, he actually voted in a reasonably decent manner this week on two major issues.  He voted for final passage on the House Wall Street reform act and he voted against the Minnick Amendment which would have gutted a good chunk of the act.  

Beating up on Wall Street should be an easy vote for pretty much anyone, Democrat or Republican as they screwed up royally last year, and have been a parasite upon the US economy for my whole life.  However they are a source of campaign funds and have a significant amount of regulatory and political capture.  So a vote to beat up on Wall Street was a "tough" vote and I am glad that Altmire decided to do the good and the self-interested smart thing in beating up on Wall Street.



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