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Bush also refuses to meet with DeGette, but what else is new? Bush's first veto by kos Tue Jul 11, 2006 at 09:30:47 AM PDT Given the record budget deficits, disastrous war in Iraq, rampant corruption in and near his administration, and disastrous legislation that has 2/3rds of Americans thinking the country is headed in the wrong direction, it's amazing to think that Bush has yet to wield a veto. Of course, part of his veto-shyness was based on the fact that he thought "signing statements" made the laws he signed inoperative. There was a little confusion about how the U.S. Constitution worked and all. But alas, he's about to lose his veto virginity. President Bush will likely cast the first veto of his presidency if the Senate, as expected, passes legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, White House aide Karl Rove said Monday in Denver [...] The U.S. House of Representatives voted 238-194 last year to pass the legislation, co-sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del. If the Senate approves the bill, it will go to the president's desk. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who backs the bill, has said he will try to bring it up for a Senate vote soon. "It is something we would, frankly, like to avoid," Rove said when asked if the White House would welcome, or dread, vetoing legislation passed by a Republican Congress, especially on such an emotional issue as embryonic stem-cell research. But Rove said he believes the legislation will pass the Senate with more than 60 votes this month, "and as a result the president would, as he has previously said emphatically, veto the Castle bill." Since Rove thinks the bill will pass with a veto-proof majority, Bush apparently wants to dare the Senate to override his veto. Bizarre. Perhaps an election-year gambit to allow Republicans to distance themselves from Bush? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn