Andy Dillon looked at the schedule, saw the House was planning on coming into session today, Tuesday, November 13, 2007, for all intents and purposes the last day to get anything done on the joint primary (due to Secretary of State ballot deadlines), and he decided that the House needed another week off.  Late yesterday he cancelled today's session, effectively scuttling the last real hope for a join primary on January 15.  

And with Dillon's move and the House Democrats abject laziness, regular Michigan voters lose their last opportunity to be taken seriously by any of the Presidential contenders.  Of course, that works out just fine for the Democrat field.  They've all sworn off Michigan anyways, signing pledges promising not to step foot inside the state or to ask for a single vote.  

When you look at it that way I guess the Dems really had nothing to lose, did they?  Except maybe the moral high ground and the ability to avoid the all-to-accurate label of being the party that disenfranchised millions of Michigan voters.

Thanks, Mr. Speaker.  And a special thanks also to the Governor who failed to step in to correct Andy Dillon and insist via the bully pulpit that he hold the regularly scheduled session to enable normal folks across the state to vote.  It was one thing when the Democrats refused to ASK for a vote.  It's another thing entirely when Democrats refuse to ALLOW a vote.