Dean is indeed "kicking the can down the road" by ensuring that the votes of Michigan and Florida Democrats count for NOTHING, two entire states' of Democratic primary voters disenfrancised because of a spitting contest between the states' Democratic Parties and the national.

Dean will seat the representatives after all the other states have voted AND after all the "super delegates" have declared, meaning that a Florida and Michigan seating is strictly for show and can have NO effect on the process. This shabby treatment of Democrats by their own leadership will come back to bite the Party in November, I have no doubt.