Politics Bush Has the Veto (and He’s Not Afraid to Use It)
From the Denver Post:
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 today.“The president is emphatic about this,” Rove said in a meeting with the editorial board of The Denver Post.
The U.S. House of Representatives has already passed the legislation, co-sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, and Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del. If the Senate approves the bill this month it would go to the president’s desk.
“It is something we would, frankly, like to avoid,” Rove said, when asked if the White House
But Rove said that 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.”
Rove then peeled a banana with his foot, smeared shit on the wall as he left.
So they have michael J fox and me dear old granny in one hand, and a lump of non-descript cells in the other... and they chose to save the lump 'o cells, right? After all those years on Family Ties defending the Reagan administration, this is how they re-pay Michale J Fox? Back stabbin, people hatin bastards!