Ezra Klein explains why attempts by the Clinton campaign to seat Michigan and Florida delegates is self-serving and, btw, hypocritical:

When the Democratic National Committee decided to impose order on an out-of-control primary process by stripping Florida and Michigan of their delegates if they refused to return their primaries to their original dates, there were three individuals who could have restored the franchise to those states. Howard Dean, the Chairman of the DNC, could have changed his mind, or changed his proposed penalty. Even in the face of his intransigence, however, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama could have simply refused his entreaty to avoid the offending states. A declaration by either that they disagreed with the DNC's decision and would instruct their delegates to alter the rules at the convention and seat Florida and Michigan would have forced all the other candidates to do the same, and the DNC's prohibition would have collapsed. The voters in Florida and Michigan would have attended speeches, and seen ads, and hosted a debate, and been able to make an informed choice

That didn't happen. Clinton's campaign manager backing the DNC, said, "We believe Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina play a unique and special role in the nominating process, and we believe the DNC's rules and its calendar provide the necessary structure to respect and honor that role." So Florida and Michigan didn't get their primaries. They didn't get campaigns. They didn't have serious Get Out The Vote efforts. And now, they're being cynically used, the language of democracy revisited and dusted off in service of a power play for additional delegates. Where, rightly or wrongly, the campaigns agreed to deny them a primary, now Clinton's campaign, which in Michigan won because they were the only campaign on the ballot and in Florida won because no one contested their lead, is demanding they be seated. The intervention did not come in time to give Florida and Michigan a full role in the democratic process, only in time to let the Clinton campaign benefit from their essential disenfranchisement.

Lawyers, Guns & Money has been having a rowdy debate about what the 1.6 million vote turnout in the Florida Democratic primary actually means. One thing I have not seen addressed is the impact of absentee ballots. A month or so ago, several Floridian Democrats sent in their ballots - how many were from Clinton supporters, how many from Obama? How does that compare to the breakdown of people who went to the polls on primary day? For that matter, how many voters would have actually bothered to show up had they seen real campaigns and get-out-the-vote drives, and had their delegates counted? Maybe we'll never know. But I'm in the camp of people who feel disenfranchising Michigan and Florida could be a costly mistake for Democrats come November.

A combination of a headache, back ache and stomach ache is responsible for Thursday's no-show, In Contempt-wise. I just don't got it in me. I came home from work and fell instantly to sleep, waking only to grab one kid from a day time holding pen and get dinner started. Jenn, the other parent, came home with a screaming headache and the other child and finished dinner. We have taken turns laying down and attempting to persuade our children to respect their parents' condition - with expected negative results.

I will now put the youngest child to bed. Where I will probably fall asleep before him.