Drawing the line

Or, re-drawing the lines, as it were. Here's a good analysis of the Schwartzenegger proposal to change the way congressional districts are determined. While it might be a losing proposal in the short term for California democrats, it's surely in their interest to be on the right side of responsive, democratic government. But the same principle holds for Dems around the whole country -- and there are many states that they would quickly recoup any CA losses in. It seems like a smart (perhaps naive and idealistic) national political principle. The idea of permanently entrenched incumbents ought to be as distasteful to the party of equal opportunity as it is to me.