Bad news for the superdelegates. They might have to do something…

A potential game-changer from CBS News and "The Early Show." Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says he wants superdelegates to make a decision by JULY 1 — the most specific he has been in his effort to prod the party to decide between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton before the Democratic National Convention in late August.

An aide explains that July 1 is not a drop-dead deadline: "The point is before the convention, ideally in June"…

In an interview with AP's Nedra Pickler, Dean also made it clear he wants to get the show on the road. "There'll be some nasty fights if it goes to convention, and people will walk out," he told Nedra. "But I've also been talking to a fairly significant number of, by and large, nonaligned people about how we might resolve this."

I'm sorry, but this just seems like an unreasonable request from Howard Dean. The superdelgates have to choose by July 1st? That's only twelve weeks to choose between the two Democratic candidates. And they've only had twelve weeks up till now to decide. That's only 24 weeks all told.

How is a politician supposed to come to any kind of a decision about anything in 24 weeks? Let alone a choice between two options?

They might have to exercise thoughtful and reasoned judgment. And that's not what we elected them to do!