It was a tumultuous weekend for the Democratic party - especially Hillary Clinton.

The rollercoaster started on Saturday, when DNC leaders and lawyers converged in Florida, where they hashed out a deal on whether to seat that state and Michigan's delegates. Both states held their primaries early, thus breaking Democratic party rules. The Democratic National Committee, of course, was not pleased and threatened not to seat any delegates from those states. But, as could be predicted, they didn't want two irate states on the loose and agreed to seat delegates, but with some penalties:

A party committee voted to seat delegations from the two states at the August nominating convention, though with only a half-vote for each delegate. The deal, reached after a sometimes raucous daylong meeting, gives Hillary Clinton a net gain of 24 delegates, a margin that's unlikely to stall Barack Obama's momentum toward getting the nomination.

Despite the compromise and satisfaction on Florida, Clinton's campaign remains defiant on Michigan.

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Hillary Clinton seems poised to blow Barack Obama out of the electoral water.

The Senator's campaign today confirmed a report that they plan to use their pals on the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee to validate Michigan and Florida's previously invalidated primary counts. Those state weren't meant to count because they broke rank and held their primaries early.

Both Clinton and Obama previously wagged their finger at those states, and Obama even yanked his name from the Michigan ballot. Now that she's down, however, Mrs. Clinton's hoping her allies can push her over the edge:

With at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could — when the committee meets at the end of this month — try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations.

Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama, according to Clinton campaign operatives.

The former first lady's campaign initially refused to publicly comment on this "nuclear" tactic, but have no released a statement confirming their backstage dealings.

Some wonder whether such a move would create the oft-referenced "rift" with black voters, but others suggest that Mrs. Clinton will attempt to quell anger by taking Obama on her ticket.

A jury will have their hands full with a gay-flavored case out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Steven Scarborough stands accused of beating 62-year old Victor Manious to death last July. Scarborough claims the Manious sexually assaulted him, so it wasn't murder, but self-defense. Manious family calls bullshit on Scarborough, however, and insist that Manious, who was heavily involved in the church, wasn't gay.

Twenty-two year old Yustina Manious described her late father as "peaceful" and expressed deep disbelief about Scarborough's accusations: "I can't imagine something like this was even said. I will never, ever believe it. Honestly, it's an insult." Oh, please, there are worst insults than being called gay.

While young Yustina may sincerely believe her father wouldn't try it on another man, journo Barton Deiters reports that both prosecutors and the defense team have talked with at least one other person who corroborates that Manious liked men.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney swept the Michigan primary yesterday. The native son took 39% of the vote, according to MSNBC, while John McCain slid into second with a distant 30% of the population. It's unclear whether Democrats gave Romney their vote to throw McCain's campaign. Only 24% of Romney supporters said that he "says what he believes," which we found interesting.

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There's a holy war happening around Mike Huckabee. While Michigan's Evangelicals promote the Republican's candidacy, there appear to be generational rumbles spreading across the nation. While the old guard reject his seemingly populist approach, younger Bible-thumpers are hoping for a Huckabee administration. And the division threatens the entire movement:

Mr. Huckabee, who was a Southern Baptist minister before serving as governor of Arkansas, is the only candidate in the presidential race who identifies himself as an evangelical. But instead of uniting conservative Christians, his candidacy is threatening to drive a wedge into the movement, potentially dividing its best-known national leaders from part of their base and upending assumptions that have held the right wing together for the last 30 years.
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If Mr. Huckabee can continue to galvanize evangelicals around his novel message while attracting other Republicans and perhaps independents, he will do more than advance his own campaign. He will also challenge the establishment of the Christian conservative political movement.

Will Huckabee become a political heretic or a hero? It depends on who you ask, we suppose. We know which way we're leaning…

The holy war has begun in Michigan!

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Janet Law just wants a space for Wyandotte, Michigan's cross-dressers. City officials, however, are putting the breaks on the former race car driver's plans, which leads Law to believe they're breaking the, well, law. Of course officials say otherwise:

[Lawmakers insist] she lacks parking to accommodate customers. She and her lawyer say officials have ulterior motives and will make a final appeal Wednesday to the Zoning Board of Appeals before filing suit.

In a standoff that's caught the attention of advocates in the transgender community, Law's lawyer, Guy Conti, says Wyandotte is violating her constitutional rights because the 1,400-square-foot club otherwise meets zoning rules.

Wyandotte Mayor James DeSana declined comment. "I'm not trying to be smart-alecky," he said. "I just don't want to discuss Janet Law."

DeSana also says that if Law's sure of discrimination, then she should sue.

Law currently has 26 parking spots. The city says she needs at least 119, even though her private club only allows 78. Wyandotte, Michigan only has about 30,000 citizens. How many of those do you think are cross-dressers?