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Coup in Honduras? Check. Michael Jackson? Check. Health care reform? Check. The D.C. license plate? Wait; this again?

The Post's Reliable Source reported yesterday that WTOP Political Analyst and longtime voting rights agitator Mark Plotkin cornered Obama advisor David Axelrod at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner last Friday and pressed for the president to put the "Taxation Without Representation" tags on the presidential limousine. Axelrod didn't seem to think much of the personal appeal, telling Plotkin, "That's your thing." Plotkin also found RNC Chair Michael Steele and followed up on the former Maryland Lt. Governor's promise to put the protest plates on his car.

At Robert Gibbs's daily White House Press Briefing just a little while ago, Washington Post reporter Michael Shear lobbed two questions at the press secretary: one about whether President Obama would keep his promise to give a speech in a Muslim nation within his first 100 days in office, and the other about whether the president would place the "Taxation Without Representation" license plates on his limousine. Gibbs's response? "I confess I don't have the slightest idea what the license plates on the limousine say now, but I can certainly check on that." He then went on to also not answer the first question, telling Shear he couldn't get into the details of those plans, other than to say that the administration is moving forward on such a speech.

WAMU says that he did not, opting instead to display special inauguration-themed plates on the presidential limousine, aka The Beast, during Tuesday's Inaugural Parade. As you can see in the above photo, the plates are blue, and display the numeral '1.'

The Examiner's Michael Neibauer reports today that the D.C. Council is considering requiring all license plates issued by the District Department of Motor Vehicles to be the 'Taxation Without Representation' version. Currently, residents may request a license plate from the DMV that bears the city's web site url, “www.dc.gov,” instead of the voting rights slogan.

WTOP has a copy of a letter the D.C. Council sent to President-Elect Obama, urging him to place the District's "Taxation Without Representation" license plates on his presidential limousine. No big shock that the Council would push for the pro-D.C. voting rights symbol, but is it somewhat surprising that both Mayor Adrian Fenty and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton have said they will not press the issue with Obama?

DCist couldn't help noticing a number of strikingly different looking diplomatic license plates popping up on some vehicles around Washington over the past couple of weeks. From far away, the color scheme and design of the plates couldn't be easily identified as having been been issued by the U.S. Department of State, and we wondered whether they belonged to another sovereign nation, like maybe there was some kind of Canadian diplomatic conference being held in Washington.