Steven Greenhut at the OCRegister.com, excerpts below:

After looking at the current redistricting process, and the new maps
offered by a supposedly nonpartisan and fair-minded commission that is
doing the bidding for left-wing and ethnic interest groups, I do have
some happy news: The new maps – which almost certainly will ensure a
two-thirds legislative voting majority for Democrats, who will be sure
to raise taxes early and often – are likely to be challenged and, either
way, won’t go into effect until at least 2012.

Facetiousness aside, the redistricting debacle spotlights the
far-reaching tentacles of the political Left, the impotence of the
Republican Party and the outlandish double-standards at work in the
high-stakes game of Sacramento politics.

As former California
Republican Party Chairman Shawn Steel put it, “The Democrats knew what
they were doing, and Republicans were asleep at the switch.” He said the
commission, comprised of Republicans and Democrats (and members of
third parties), features ineffective and liberal Republican members and
hyperpartisan Democrats, with the results strongly tilting the new seats
in one direction.”  Furthermore, Steel notes that the commission was designed, though the
language of the initiative that created it, to devise new
ethnic-oriented gerrymanders beyond what’s required by the federal
Voting Rights Act. The one commissioner who voted “no” on the new
maps, Michael Ward of Fullerton, complained publicly. “In my opinion,
the commission failed to fulfill its mandate to strictly apply
constitutional criteria and consistently applied race and ‘community of
interest’ criteria and sought to diminish dissenting viewpoints.”