Gossip Roundup: Welcome, Monkeyfishermen Edition
•Inside the Beltway: Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)can count: "I would like to ask everybody in the House to get a pencil and paper and take down this number. Ready. Here it is. One, one, two, nine, two, five. . . Now, here is another number -- six, seven, six." The first is the average tax cut for millionaires, the second is for the average American.
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•The Scoop: At least three members ofSkull &Bonesbunked withBushat the White House;Bush'sfrat brother, who described the group as "the hardest-partying, baddest-boy, most athlete-venerating of the campus fraternities," also slept over. [ MSNBC ]
•Rush &Molloy: For a $1,000 donation toJoe Driscoll,who is running for Congress in Pennsylvania, you too can can own a Florida "butterfly ballot" machine fromAndre Balazs,hotelier.Bobby Kennedy Jr.got one for his 50th. [ NYDN ]
•Page Six: Former Mayor David DinkinsandRoger AilesgreetChelsea Clintonin the Four Seasons Grill Room. [ NYP ]

