From a “Resolution of Condemnation” sent by David A. Norcross, general counsel to the Republican National Committee, to thirty-eight Republican members of Congress on August 10, the day before a critical House vote on President Clinton’s crime bill. The thirty-eight Republicans had crossed party lines in May to vote in favor of a federal ban on assault weapons; the Clinton bill would have enacted that ban. After receiving the resolution, which was never officially approved by the RNC, twenty-nine of the thirty-eight Republicans voted against the bill; the final vote to block the bill was 225 to 210. …