Washington Post:

The Democratic National Committee sought to seize control of its unraveling nominating process yesterday, rejecting pleas from state party leaders and cracking down on Florida for scheduling a Jan. 29 presidential primary.

The DNC's rules and bylaws committee, which enforces party rules, voted yesterday morning to strip Florida of all its delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver -- the harshest penalty at its disposal.

The question is, who is going to cry uncle first, the DNC or Florida Democrats? I suspect that the Florida Democrats will see the light and back off. They are in clear violation of DNC rules that they agreed to, and very much deserve to be stripped of their delegates to the convention if they insist on holding their primary in January.