I have a snarky suggestion.  Instead of doing a re-vote, why not simply do a re-count?  (Obviously this wouldn't work).

If I were Clinton, I would say a re-vote now or we go to the convention and officially submit a request that the Florida and Michigan delegates be seated.

Do you really think the party will want to risk loosing Florida and Michigan in the general election because people in those states feel like the party doesn't include them in the nominating process?

My guess is that the party will seat the delegates.  If they don't, then maybe it isn't mature enough or ready to lead this nation out of the mess created over the last 7 years.

dean has become irrelevant.

the power vacuum of the party is up for grabs without leadership.

Obama vetoes a re-vote for both states, as is his current line. The reasoning is that "rules are rules." He's willing, of course, to ignore the rules in the case of his idea: an even split of delegates. [Otherwise, he'll definitely lose both states in a General. So he can't support actually following the rules through and denying the delegates seats at the Convention.]

Hillary continues her support of a re-vote. Even if a re-vote is on her side, it's still the democratic thing to do. She pushes for it, against Obama.

Dean doesn't do anything to reconcile the situation. Instead, he just harps on how the candidates must find a solution.

Hillary is seen as an obstructionist, vile politician. The blogosphere, the media and Obama supporters up their diatribes against Hillary. They really put the pressure on.

Karl Rove is rubbing his sweaty hands together, and McCain has not only figured out "how to beat the b*tch," he's got all he needs on Obama.

Instead, they simply assumed that no one would have the gonads to enforce the rules.  Only a feckless weak and incompetent party leader would actually enforce the rules.

So let us not forget that it was the Michigan and Florida state Democratic Parties -- not Howard Dean -- who put us in this situation.

I suppose it's also a disaster that HoHo won't go out of his way to help the Clintons, especially given how much help they've always been to him.  The Clintons played a giant game of chicken -- assuming along with the Florida and Michigan parties that no one would actually enforce the rules.  Either that or they assumed that they would have the nomination in the bag by this time and wouldn't need Michigan or Florida.  The Clinton family lost that game of chicken and I'm sure Howard Dean would really, really want to help them take their bet back, if only HoHo were competent.  

I have a word in mind that I would like to insert in the middle of the phrase: "Boo Hoo".  But this is a work-friendly blog and using that word would violate the site's comment policy.

Ms. Brazile suggested that Democrats in Florida, given what happened there in 2000, should be particularly sensitive to what the party was doing. "I'm going to send a message to everybody in Florida -- that we are going to follow the rules," she said.

The DNC is responsible for the National Convention and the Presidential race.  The states run the primaries.  Nowhere is it written that candidates make decisions about primaries.

Dean has done some good for the party before this major debacle, but his conduct since last fall has been lame enough to destroy what before was a good record.

I was pissed when he allowed the death penalty and am even more pissed that he's blowing the opportunity to at least salvage something by fobbing off the DNC's rightful role to the candidates who souldn't have any say in the matter.