? That way, you give away a little to gain a lot of pure Repub districts. The reason that, or a reason that, Congress is so screwed up is that the Repubs did such a "good" job with the census generated redistrictings that the districts are hard right. The Repubs fear no Dem challenge but only being primaried from the right. There is no incentive to compromise whatsoever, the opposite. That is why Boehner said screw it.