The Republicans don't like it when they don't get their way. In fact, if they can't make things go their way the first time, they'll do it all over again. I mean, how long did they hound Bill Clinton to try and make something stick? In California, the voters chose Gray Davis for there governor in November. The Republicans didn't like that, so they started a recall movement, and less than a year later they are going to do it all over again. How long do you think they will give it if this recall is a "no" or if Bustamente wins?
Then there is Texas. There was a census in 2000, just like there is every ten years. Perfect time to do the redistricting. Pretty traditional. Not that the Republican-lead state legislature could be bothered to do it:
The current Texas congressional map was drawn by a panel of federal judges in 2001 after state legislators failed to do the job.(italics mine)
Yes folks, the legislators didn't do it in 2001 when they were supposed to, and the buck got passed. Still the job got done. Too bad the Republicans didn't like the results. Now, it seems, they are rarin' to go:
Perry, a Republican, has said the Legislature should be drawing congressional district lines, not the courts.
Um, shouldn't you have thought of that, say, TWO YEARS AGO?!? Bastards, the lot of them.
