I was onto Chuck Hagel before it was cool. The following is from one of many missive I wrote concerning Chuckie between 2004 and 2006.
"Some months back The President asked that the legislature send him a "clean bill" on the Gun maker lawsuit exemption legislation. "Republican" Chuck Hagel voted to attach the AWB to it as an amendment, thusly stabbing the President in the back."
Ever wonder why a really left leaning president would appoint a Nebraska republican as his secretary of defense?
Chuckie has been BFF's with Bob Kerrey and John Kerry for more years than I care to count. As Bush's Nebraska campaign manager in 2004, during the Republican Convention in NYC in 2004, Chuckie co-hosted, with Bob Kerrey, a cross-town reception for presidential candidate John Kerry. John McCain was also in attendance at this bash.
Here is one of the articles I penned on Chuckie from August 2005. It contains links to previous dissertations posted in 2004.
http://nebraskanews.blogspot.com/2005/08/hagelisms-are-begining-to-abound_23.html When he was a local and state politician Hagel never was or has been a friend of Nebraska gun owners.