It was a about a month ago that The Martian Anthropologist and I came up with the idea to start the Impeach Bush Coalition.
Oh, what a month it has been!
Considering the fact that both the Martian and Bulldog Manifesto blogs are relatively new to the blogosphere, our campaign to promote discussion about impeachment began truly as a grassroots effort.
On September 8, 2005, it began with A Call to All Blogs. Within days, Martian and I had designed a new blog and bloggers were sending in their requests to sign up.
Soon thereafter, a corner ribbon and graphic banners were designed. This helped spread the word around the blogosphere.
Thankfully, IBC members have graciously offered up their support. They have written well-researched articles related to impeachment (just to name a few– 1, 2, and 3). They have participated in an email writing and letter writing campaign. They have chased pollsters, demanding more polling on impeachment.
It’s been a wild month — culminating with a fundraising drive to raise money so that we could hire an independent polling firm to survey the public re: impeachment. Initially organized and promoted by IBC member and blogger Luke Ryland of Wot is it Good 4, the IBC lent it’s support, teaming up with Democrats.com and AfterDowningStreet.Org.
As a result of the fundraising drive, $10,446.00 has been raised so far (as of October 11), and the polling has already begun.
The After Downing Street Coalition hired independent polling firm Ipsos Public Affairs to conduct a poll during the period of October 6-9. By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq.
More polling is on the way (perhaps after some indictments are handed down?).
The impeachment movement has begun. As the topic of impeachment becomes more common in discussion, impeachment becomes more viable as an option. And regardless of whether or not you ultimately believe impeachment can be successful, it is a matter of justice which causes us to seek it. Success or failure be damned. We seek justice. Impeachment is just.
So this is our first month! Not bad considering it began with two relatively new bloggers.
But there is plenty of work to be done:
Tell every polling company to poll on impeachment! LINK
Tell Your Representatives to Impeach Bush! LINK
Tell the media to wake up! LINK
Please sign up with the Impeach Bush Coalition. (Email us at: prideof55@myway.com).
We don’t sell anything on the IBC blog. We don’t advertise on the blog. We want nothing from you other than your willingness to stand side-by-side with us for impeachment. Heck, we will even link to your blog. We all want a link, don’t we? 🙂
Last but not least: I want to thank everybody who has taken part this past month. I have been touched by the words of support we have received, and amazed by the offers from people around the world to pitch in and help. It has been quite a positive experience just to see how much some people care. Special thanks to all the IBC contributors The Brouhaha, Club Lefty, Democrats.com, L’esprit de Christophe, On The Left Tip (RenaRF), The Rudicus Report, Stinkin’ Desert Post, The Truth is Out There, and last but certainly not least, Wot is it Good 4 by Luke Ryland.
Just a few notes:
I posted this originally on The Daily Kos yesterday. One commenter thought that perhaps Martian Anthropologist and I are one and the same. I just want to put that curiousity to rest.
I am an anonymous blogger because of my career (I am a lawyer.) I’m not sure why Martian is anonymous but I’m sure he has his reasons. I live in the San Diego area. Martian lives in Iowa. We have a lot in common, but I assure everybody, we are not the same person. It’s funny that I even have to respond to this, but I want to nip it in the bud before it becomes more than a curiousity.
Martian was my first blogger friend. We both got sick the same week a few weeks back, and that caused one person to inquire as to whether we are one person. As coincidental as it is that we both happened to get sick relatively close in time to one another, I swear on everything I hold sacred that we are TWO people, not one.
Short of unmasking my alter ego (which I cannot do), I know of no other way to make this point clear. If anybody is familiar with Booman and Kos contributo RenaRF, she can vouch for us. She is, after all, also a contributor at the Impeach Bush Coalition.
Man, this is too funny. 🙂
Thanks for your concerns, passion and great work with the IBC. Keep at it.
It really couldn’t matter if you are two separate people, you and Martian. . .I think I am 3 different people all by myself. . . (just a little joke, eh? I think I’ve been blogging too much)
Grow on trees. Thanks for the good work. I’m sure that I am not the only one who enjoyed reading about the poll results this week.
Can we move the question from the hypothetical to the real. “Since it has been demonstrated that Bush lied concerning the WMD’s and Iraq, as a pretext for the invasion of that country…..”