The Senate Democrat Leadership can't take it.
After California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, broke with President-elect Obama and her Senate colleagues and decided to support Roland Burris in his effort to assume Obama's now vacant U.S. Senate seat, the Democrats now "plan" to seat Senator Burris.
The Associated Press has learned Senate Democrats plan to accept Roland Burris for President-elect Barack Obama's vacant seat.
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Knowledgeable Senate officials in both parties said the saga was widely expected to end with Burris being seated. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly for Senate members.
The likelihood that Burris, a Democrat, will eventually prevail increased Tuesday after a key chairwoman got behind the former Illinois attorney general, driving a crack in what had been a united front by Senate Democrats against a Blagojevich appointee.
Did the Democrats cave in exchange for a Burris promise not to run in 2010? If so, would that not mean that all the Democrats ethical-sounding talk about any appointment by pay to play scandal-plagued Illinois Democrat Governor Blagojevich was just a cover for the Democrats' real concern -- that Obama's Senate seat might be lost in an election?
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