My guess is that there are a lot of uneasy moments passing between the chair and the governor right now.  

Don't forget... in the end this entire process is little more than a proxy fight for Michigan Democrats.  The Governor wants Hillary Clinton to gain the nomination and with Obama and Edwards yanking their names off the ballot earlier this year a primary would likely go to Hillary in a walk.  Brewer's shilling for Edwards and knows he has the union muscle (literally) to intimidate (literally) caucus attendees into supporting The Haircut.  

Caught up in the middle of these ridiculous Democrat games are the Michigan voters.  Millions of us.  But hey, who cares if you disenfranchise millions... no big deal.  Just another day at the office.  

Meanwhile team MRP and the Republican field continues to perform admirably working every angle to make the primary happen.  When the Democrats blocked a legislative fix in the Senate and cancelled session this week in the House to avoid the same fix this thing looked dead in the water.  But Saul and the Republicans aren't taking it lying down.  They've got the lawyers working overtime on appeals and requests for a "stay" of the ruling, the AG has filed emergency papers with the courts and they're acting, preparing and filing paperwork to indicate they expect victory.

And that's something Michigan could use a lot of these days.  Just like yesterday, elsewhere in the papers we've got another round of good news / bad news.

The latest foreclosure figures are out and the good news is Michigan's biggest city isn't the worst in the United States.  Nope.  Detroit is second worst.  The AP reports:

The Detroit metro area, which includes Livonia and Dearborn, reported 25,708 filings on 16,079 homes, up more than 93 percent from the same quarter last year. It had the third-highest number of filings during the quarter.

Oh, and speaking of Andy Dillon's decision to close up shop for the week, while that puts a serious, likely fatal cramp in the joint-primary's side there's also an upside.  Without the Democrats in Lansing they can't pass any more tax hikes!  Which is significant, because, lets not forget, they're still trying to spike taxes and fees on Michigan outdoorsmen and just as hunting season gets under way.  According to the Detroit News:

If approved by the Legislature... the fee package would double and triple some hunting, fishing and trapping fees by 2010. As many Michigan deer hunters prepare for opening day, the proposal has become a hot-button issue. Many sportsmen decrying an unfair penalty on one segment of the population; others say they are willing to pony up to support vital programs...

Some members of Michigan's hunting community recognize the need to fund DNR programs and would normally have no problem paying an extra $15 each year. Yet Michigan's stagnant economy and the recent budget squabbles that resulted in proposed tax hikes have many people feeling less than generous these days.

Clement Parke, a 65-year-old hunter from Alanson, near Petoskey, is one of those.
"I would be OK (with an increase) if they were sure to use the money for something that would help hunting," said Parke, who hunts on a family member's property. "But I don't think they will."

Oh, and that extra $15?  That's the lowest of lowball figures.  The popular figures in the Dem caucus right now seem to indicate a 150% tax hike more on the order of $45.  

Of course I can hear the left now... `oh, forty-five dollars, that's nothing, big deal, you don't support giving an extra $45 a year to make Michigan the perfect state and peaches and cream and sunshines and rainbows and unicorns fa-la-la.'

That's always the fall-back.  You're mean if you won't pony up a few extra bucks here or there.  Mean and evil and you like to drown puppies and bite the heads off turtle doves.  But what they constantly forget is that every dollar the state takes, through the coercive us of force, mind you, is a dollar that isn't in the private sector creating jobs and providing for families.  And when you add up all the forty-five dollar checks you wind up with tens of millions sucked right out of Michigan's fragile economy.

And that, my friends, is mean.