GP> So what?  Do you want to see NRA back Hitler to keep Stalin out of
GP> office? How was that traitor Brooks any less of a traitor than
GP> Schumer?  Not only did he single-handedly advance the ban, but he
GP> did it because the Fascist "Crime" Bill was so "necessary."  Want to
GP> tell me how Schumer could have done any worse?  How do you know that
GP> pro-gunners might have a veto-proof majority in both houses of
GP> Congress right  now if NRA hadn't been backing anti-gunners because
GP> "they have a better chance?"
I'm not trying to defend Brooks. I agree that Stockman is the better 
Congressman and I supported him. I'm just trying to give you the 
rationale for supporting Brooks instead. I'm not even trying to claim 
that it was the correct strategy because, as things turned out, it 
wasn't. What I *am* telling you is that Capitol Hill politics is 
Byzantine in its complexity and it's very difficult to predict the 
eventual outcome of any strategy.
BTW, I can think of one way things could have been worse with Schumer. 
The committee chairman can add things to a bill, as Brooks did with a 
grant to his alma mater, and it will be found out only by accident. Just 
imagine what would have been in the Crime Bill if *Schumer* had custody 
of it.
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