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The devil it is said, is in the detaials. Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. Now the Republicans have to avoid forming a circular firing squad, which is all too likely.

Tom Craddick will settle for nothing less than a 19th CD which pairs Midland/Odessa with San Angelo. He is immortaly honked off that his boy lost to Lubbock's boy by 550 votes in the special election to replace Combest. There is a map out there that would give Craddick his 19th running halfway up the panhandle and virtually guarantee that seat, but he will not back off from Angelo, and the resistance here is strong.

Now enter stage left, Sen Duncan who really wants to leave West Texas as it sits, would go for the CD19 that does not involve San Angelo, and seems to be ready to go to the mat with Craddick over it. Meanwhile, our poor first term Rep Scott Campbell, a long time personal friend of Craddick, who took Rob Junell's seat is stuck in the middle of this mess and looking for a hole to crawl in and hide until the ordinance stops falling. Bet that Judgeship is looking better to Rob every day.

With Whitmire back in and the quorum problem overcome, the Dems best dream is to see us Republicans self-destruct over the issue they have been going to all this trouble to keep off the floor. We have a splendid opportunity to shoot ourselves in the foot and the Craddick/Duncan/Ratliff triangle bodes well for just that. Remember the Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times".