Michigan Radio was reporting Wednesday night that state Democrats, including party chairman Mark Brewer -- a chief architect of the early primary that cost the state its delegates -- was agreeing to the do-over.

The governors of both states, along with top officials in Hillary Clinton's campaign, are now saying they would consider holding a new contest by June. That's a change from their previous insistence that the primaries their states held in January should determine how the states' delegates are allocated...

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Clinton supporter, told the Detroit Free Press that Clinton's victory in Ohio changes "the landscape a bit." She said it could open the door to a caucus, if it can be privately funded and both candidates agree.

The "privately funded" thing will excite a few Republicans because they'll like the idea of the MDP ponying up a million dollars or more that can't be used in the general election.  I'd just remind folks that between George Soros and Jon Stryker the state party isn't exactly hurting for folks who've shown a willingness to write blank checks for pet projects.  Just look at the Michigan House and the regressisphere.

More likely than draining the bank accounts at MDP this sort of thing will energize their donors at all levels.  I'd be willing to go out on a limb and suggest that they'd end the new primary season more flush with cash than when they start it.  

But on the bright side, maybe Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will finally show up here in the Great Lakes State.  Maybe.  We're not good enough for them right now because they don't and haven't needed us.  (In lefty circles the concept of "public service" carries a lot of baggage and quid pro quos... we're not scratching their back so why would they even look at ours?)

It's not like Michigan issues are getting any less urgent or important.  Though, silver lining, it looks like the United Auto Workers may finally be ready to sit down with the folks at American Axle.  Good thing too.  Experts claim that should the strike extend into next week it will close as many as ten auto plants.  They're already more than halfway there.  The Ivory Tower reports:

GM, American Axle's largest customer, has halted production at six pickup and SUV plants, including factories in Flint and Pontiac.

On Monday, the automaker is to cut production at its SUV plant in Janesville, Wis., and its transmission plant in Toledo. It also expects to halt production at its metal casting plant in Saginaw and an engine plant in Moraine, Ohio.

But while they're finally talking at AA there isn't much actual conversation between Kwame Kilpatrick and a few angry residents.  They're skipping past all the chit-chat and going straight for the throat, kicking off a recall campaign to oust hizzoner.  According to the Detroit News:

Recall organizer Douglas Johnson, who is running for a seat on the Detroit City Council, said he is eager to begin collecting the 57,000 signatures needed to put the issue before Detroit voters, although the city has 10 days to appeal Wednesday's ruling.

"It's nothing personal against the mayor, but he's not been productive to the city of Detroit," said Johnson, 42, a paralegal who recently moved back to the city. "The people in Detroit have been neglected and abused."

...If no appeal is filed, Johnson, who lives in Rosedale Park, will have 90 days to collect 57,000 signatures -- a figure determined by a formula based on the number of registered voters in the city of Detroit who voted in Michigan's last gubernatorial election.

Well, best of luck, Mr. Johnson.  You're going to need it.  We're talking about a mayor who was reelected in a city while rumors and assumptions about rampant wrong doing, corruption and even deaths circled his head like an ominous little black thunder cloud.  Heck, they'd probably do it again.  It's that whole thing about leading a horse to water.