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Published 1/13/2009 by Domenico Montanaro at First Read

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann*** Rolled over by Roland: Senate Democrats’ national embarrassment is finally over now that they have decided to allow Roland Burris to take Obama’s vacated seat later this week. As we wrote yesterday, when the Burris matter is overshadowing important congressional meetings with Obama economic adviser Larry Summers, you have quite a distraction. The bad news for Democrats was that this story was a distraction for about two weeks (and...( read more ) (link)

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