There’s a companion piece over on American Street by Thomas Nephew to Allyson Villars’ story, cited here a couple of days ago in Encountering the Constitutional Twilight Zone. It’s about John Nirenberg‘s walk from Boston to Washington to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about reconsidering her decision to take impeachment of Bush and Cheney off the table. Along the way Nirenberg was joined by a number of people who accompanied him along sections of his walk and who added their names to the petition he carried to present to Speaker Pelosi.

It was a well publicized walk, and Rep. Pelosi had a lot of advance notice of Dr. Nirenberg’s visit to her office. What happened when he got there?

She was too busy to see him. She was meeting with Ben Affleck instead.

Maybe it was that star quality thing.

Peace.

Deborah Alicen