The lesson from all this is simple: As a strategy for every decade, stall and stall and stall the redistricting legislation until time runs out because of upcoming House elections, and then complain to the courts that you can't agree on redistricting. Get the courts to impose (or freeze) districts on the people in the name of election continuity, and then argue that new districts have been established and that it's now unconstitutional for the legislature to do what it couldn't do before the elections.
-PJ
If these crybabies are so unhappy then they should work to elect a Demo controlled legislature in 2010 and redraw the maps then.
Naked political power grab?? What biased "reporting." Like the Dems don't do that in every state they control?! Have you seen the way some districts are drawn to favor Dems and create "minority districts?" Some of the shapes are ridiculous and clearly drawn to pick and choose voters.