As the November election draws closer, I have been thinking about how progressives can send a message to President Bush when he comes to their area to stump for one of his rubber stamps in Congress.  From everything I've seen and read, I know that this is a President who avoids contact with the "real public" like the plague and only speaks to carefully selected, sympathetic audiences.  That means that people like me would not be welcome.  I know I will never get close enough to the President to tell him with words what I think of his policies.  So how could I send him a message that he would remember?  Then an idea hit me.

It occurred to me that what most disturbs me about this President is his utter disregard for the Constitution.  He holds the first branch of government, Congress, in utter contempt and browbeats the Republican leadership into serving as his buttboys when it comes to passing legislation that benefits his rich friends.  He packs the courts with activist, right-wing ideologues who do his bidding.  And, when he sees a law he doesn't like, like the FISA law, he ignores it and tells the nation that he's protecting them by ignoring one of their most basic constitutional rights.  So how do you send a message to the President that he will understand and what should the message be?  The answer......toilet paper.

I am urging my fellow patriots to tell the President, "Quit wiping your a-- with the Constitution and use toilet paper instead."  If he comes to your town, you should be able to find out where he will be speaking and how he will get there.  Greet his arrival with toilet paper.  Toss it off the overpasses!  Line the streets with it!  Cover the trees along his route!  Let your imagination go wild!!

I'm convinced that the creative use of toilet paper, one flying, patriotic roll at a time, will send a message to this President that he won't soon forget.  Could you get arrested for doing it?  Maybe.  But it would be a price I would gladly pay to let this President know what I think and to wipe that smirk off his face.