A Travel Writer’s Campaign to Impeach President Bush
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.02.05 | 7:45 AM ET
Travel writer Brad Newsham, author of the fine travel memoir Take Me With You, has launched an effort to impeach President Bush. No joke. At his Web site, where he outlines the campaign, he notes that he initially believed the Bush administration’s case for war in Iraq. Now, he writes, “The number of people who still believe we were not consciously manipulated into an illegal, discretionary war is now roughly the same as the number of people who still believe in O.J.”
When he isn’t writing about his travels, Newsham drives a cab in San Francisco. He’d been listening for months to customers express anger at the administration.
“But sometime back in midsummer 2005,” he writes, “I got sick of hearing it all, became ashamed of myself for participating in it. Are we so feeble and weak or fat and happy that we won’t even raise our voices—except to each other and maybe to our cab drivers? When is someone going to actually do something?”
So Newsham began calling Congressional representatives to inquire about their plans to introduce articles of impeachment.
He writes:
It took a while for this reality to sink in, but finally it did: Our elected representatives are afraid of our government! I realized: “These people need some direction from us—we the people—and they need some backup, too. How do we give it to them?”
Within a couple of weeks I came up with a plan. The first four people to whom I outlined it said, unasked: “I’m in.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
