Sure, Mount Pleasant may boast the best costumes and a local flavor may be the pumpkin-carving theme of the year. But there’s little doubt that the White House has the most professional Halloween operation going inside the District of Columbia.

Coup in Honduras? Check. Michael Jackson? Check. Health care reform? Check. The D.C. license plate? Wait; this again? That must have been what White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was thinking during yesterday’s briefing with the press. As he dealt with the issues of the day, Gibbs was once again forced to field questions, this time from ABC News reporter Yunji de Nies, about why President Obama has so far opted not to place…

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…