I hope the swelling's gone down in your face from those particular backhands because the Democrats are winding up and getting ready to slap us again.  This time, the Associated Press reports, it'll be the State Party's Executive Committee.

While Howard Dean meets with lawmakers down in Florida, the only other state in the same mess we're in, and promises he's "committed" to seating their delegates without so much as a fly-over here in Wolverine country, the executive committee of the MDP is expected to hold a special phone meeting today specifically to "vote on a statement saying any kind of election to replace the results of the January 15 primary no longer is possible..."

If that sort of statement seems entirely unnecessary to you, you're not alone.  We know it's not possible.  Your Democrat controlled State House of Representatives killed it.  The Obama supporters refused to get on board with the Clinton supporters and refused to put up the votes you needed and instead of sticking around and ironing out the differences you took a two week break to go hunt the Easter bunny.

Why exactly do you need to hold a special phone vote to tell us what we already know?  Seriously, are you deriving some sort of perverse pleasure from watching voters statewide squirm as they realize their voice will never be heard?

Oh, but on the bright side, Dean is expected to issue a statement after the vote letting folks know that he's "committed" to Michigan too.  No visit.  No meeting with the legislature.  Heck, no meeting even with the MDP Executive Committee.  Just some nebulous statement faxed to the press from his DC office.  Presumably.  (I don't want to count our chickens before they're hatched... these Dem promises mean less and less these days.)

So much for every vote counting.  And where does this leave us?  Michigan's delegation to the national convention?  Who knows.  The statement is expected to say that our delegates will be seated if Barack and Hillary can come up with a solution they agree on.  Barack has said he wants to split it 50-50.  Clinton won more than 50% of the vote back on election day... remember, Barack, you pulled your own name off the ballot... and she doesn't think going halfsies sounds fair.  So they fight and they scrap and they argue and they trade insults and they get down in the mud and fight eachother.

So much for fighting for the little guys.  Wasn't long ago that that'd be the principle most Dems self identified with the most.  It'd be why, they'd tell you, they were Democrats in the first place.  Now you've got their party machinery disenfranchising the entire voting population of a State and you've even seen them leave their populism at the door in one of the major legislative battles of 2008 as well.

Somehow, inexplicably, the left, including the vast majority of the regressisphere, has taken up the banner of corporate America and a couple of major multi-billion dollar companies to not just fight but kill smaller, local, home grown competition.  And make no mistake, that's exactly what the current alternative energy battle in Lansing is about.

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