From the print Buzz column Sunday: For all the fuming, all the arm-twisting, all the news conferences and all the anguish, there were three words never uttered this week by Florida Democrats struggling with their Democratic presidential primary fiasco: We blew it.

"No, the bill was a good bill,’’ state Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Parkland, told Buzz, when asked if he had any regrets for sponsoring the bill to move Florida’s primary early and blow off the national party rules. "I don’t deny there’s a crisis here, but I’ll go to my grave saying it wasn’t my legislation, but the DNC response to it that did it."

Many of them like to say they were steamrolled by the Republicans controlling the Legislature, but Democrats went along for the ride and only made a token effort to comply with the DNC at the last minute.

Now that it’s apparent state Democrats’ actions in 2007 could wind up playing a role in delivering Florida to the GOP, they’re still pointing the finger squarely at the Democratic National Committee and holding themselves blameless. "Had they simply done exactly what the Republicans did, would we even be in this mess?,’’ asked state House Democratic leader Dan Gelber, noting that the national Republican Party only stripped half of the Florida GOP’s delegates away for violating the schedule.