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April 12: 283 days left
Returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, Rush Limbaugh, one of President Bush's loudest talk-radio cheerleaders, was detained for possessing Viagra without a prescription. Limbaugh later explained that one of his doctors had agreed to prescribe it in another doctor's name to avoid publicity.
April 13: 282 days left
Former Senator Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, is expanding and redesigning a large white house in Nashville to bear a suspicious resemblance to another White House about 600 miles east in Washington, D.C. The retired senator, whose presidential ambitions were cut short by the Republican rout in 2006, claims the resemblance is unintentional, but the front pillars, portico and overall style have neighbors' tongues wagging, including one who bragged to the New York Times: "I love right next door to the White House."
April 14: 281 days left
During the president's ill-fated 2005 quest to privatize social security, he made a stop at a rally at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver. Three local residents got official tickets for the event from their congressman, Bob Beauprez. Once inside the museum, however, they were threatened with arrest and thrown out, even though, as Leslie Weise, one of the "Denver Three" explained, "We did absolutely nothing wrong. We had every right to be there." Their crime? The car they arrived in bore a bumper sticker: "No More Blood For Oil."
Returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, Rush Limbaugh, one of President Bush's loudest talk-radio cheerleaders, was detained for possessing Viagra without a prescription. Limbaugh later explained that one of his doctors had agreed to prescribe it in another doctor's name to avoid publicity.
April 13: 282 days left
Former Senator Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, is expanding and redesigning a large white house in Nashville to bear a suspicious resemblance to another White House about 600 miles east in Washington, D.C. The retired senator, whose presidential ambitions were cut short by the Republican rout in 2006, claims the resemblance is unintentional, but the front pillars, portico and overall style have neighbors' tongues wagging, including one who bragged to the New York Times: "I love right next door to the White House."
April 14: 281 days left
During the president's ill-fated 2005 quest to privatize social security, he made a stop at a rally at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver. Three local residents got official tickets for the event from their congressman, Bob Beauprez. Once inside the museum, however, they were threatened with arrest and thrown out, even though, as Leslie Weise, one of the "Denver Three" explained, "We did absolutely nothing wrong. We had every right to be there." Their crime? The car they arrived in bore a bumper sticker: "No More Blood For Oil."