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Thursday, January 8, 2009

A thin reed


Reid And Durbin: No Seating Of Burris Yet -- But We Really Like Him
Senate Democrats move to seat Burris
Reid: I don't work for Obama
Reid: Free Ted Stevens
Posted by SNi at 1/08/2009 12:33:00 AM
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