LINK: CalPundit discusses the universal disdain for the current apportionment system. But he also buries an important premise:
"Not only is this self-evidently bad, but it's one of those odd issues in which, as near as I can tell, virtually everyone is in favor of making the system fairer and less partisan."
the missing premise being "Not only is this self-evidently bad, but it's one of those odd issues in which, as near as I can tell, virtually everyone who has spent time thinking about the apportionment of House districts is in favor of making the system fairer and less partisan."
this, of course, reduces the relevant portion of the population considerably, and suggests an explanation other than the career-mindedness of elected officials for the lack of anything being done.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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