Recently, President Bush visited Medford, Oregon, where he showcased his timber management plan for the national forests in light of this summer's horrific fire season. He toured a new burn and there gave an impromptu press conference. Later, in Portland, while the president attended a fund raiser for Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Smith, the downtown streets were thronged by roughly a thousand demonstrators of the sort the Beaver State is famous for, protesting the new timber policy and the president's upcoming plans to seek the resignation of Saddam Hussain. Darth Vader-like garbed Portland police had their hands full, resorting to...