No kidding ... the sound bite war on this one is unwinnable.
And to escalate the whole thing by threatening his first veto over THIS ISSUE was ... as evidenced by this thread racing toward 1000 posts ... a miscalculation.
You're exactly right about the poor timing of the veto threat. If a president is going to distinguish his administration by going 5 years without a veto, he could have certainly picked a better time to menacingly wave the veto pen.
John Gibson is addressing it now.