Jerome Armstrong has a good piece up right now showing that Obama's blocking of the FL and MI re-vote may have actually given Hillary the opening she needs....

The gloves are off.

Obama's message is clear..

Scr*w the "Will of the People"

Up until now, it's looked like he was just trying to delay the inevitable, but it's obvious that he's willing to go further and actively fight any re-vote in FL and MI. And unfortunately, time is on his side...

From CNN

Here we are, my fellow Democrats (and friends who are reading this), on a hugely important mission to change the disastrous course we have been following for the past 7, soon to be 8, years, and we haven’t yet quite made up our minds as to which of our talented Democrats should be piloting our course home.

'Denver, we have a problem….'

Monday, December 03, 2007
Michigan Delegates Excluded From Democratic Convention
Juan Cole

EPA OK's BP Pollution at Whiting, Indiana Refinery

EPA Okays BP Pollution at Whiting, IN Refinery

(click ^^^^^^^ for the full story cross-posted in the INDIANA DU forum.)

MUST READ

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www.billorightsman.com

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Undercutting People-power
by Matt Stoller, Mon Dec 04, 2006 at 03:24:51 PM EST

EXCERPT

You may start hearing is that of 'state's rights', or rather, the desire for states to handle matters traditionally managed at the Federal level.  This is because corporate money goes further in states than it does in a Democratic Congress, so that's where corporate lobbying is moving.

For instance, rather than wanting to face the new Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell, Verizon and company are trying to push to get state franchising laws in place that do not include net neutrality protections.  Last cycle, these companies worried that the process for passing Federal laws was too slow, and now they are trying to block Federal legislation so that they can get what they want at the state level.