Dean has gone from doing nothing to something wild: Florida & Michigan members will be seated on the 3 standing committees — including Credentials.

From Politico.com:

The Democratic National Committee said Tuesday that Florida and Michigan members will be seated on the three standing committees — including the critical Credentials Committee—at the party’s 2008 national convention, a position that could affect the selection of the Democratic nominee.

While both states were stripped of their delegates to the convention, according to the DNC’s interpretation of party rules, members from those states will be seated on the Credentials Committee. The Credentials Committee, which can meet prior to convention, resolves disputes over whether to seat delegates at the convention.

Under the DNC's interpretation of the rules, Florida members of the credentials committee would not be allowed to vote on the question of whether to seat Florida's delegates to the presidential nominating process.

But the mere presence of Florida and Michigan on the credentials committee raises the prospect of vote-trading or last-minute maneuvering, creating potential confusion for a convention already shadowed by procedural controversies.

Senior advisers to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as several party rules experts with experience from prior presidential campaigns, expressed surprise when informed of the DNC’s stance.

“Intuitively, I would have thought that if members of the delegation are not seated it strikes me as a little odd that members of the standing committees are seated,” said Harold Ickes, a top Clinton adviser who many view as the preeminent authority on party rules and bylaws.

[T]he decision to seat the two states on the Credentials Committee, prior to any compromise, further clouds an already Byzantine process for determining whether or not delegations from Florida and Michigan will be seated at the convention.

“It adds more confusion to a situation which is already tremendously confused,” said veteran Democratic consultant Tad Devine, an expert on delegate rules who was surprised by the DNC interpretation. “When you have a situation like this, where people are deeply concerned about the process, and the public is evaluating the process on the basis of fairness and equality, I think it is really incumbent to have a tremendous amount of transparency so that people can understand the process and can make determinations about its fairness.”