True, but he would have had the (d) majority led house override his veto. I am not defending him on the signing, but it would have been totally useless to veto the bill.
Absolutely not true. IT MIGHT have been overridden and might not have been. We'll never know. It MIGHT have put some backbone into the Republicans whose political philosophy has been pre-emptive surrender on every liberal initiative that the left threw at them from no child left behind to the prescription drug give away.