I whoelheartly agree he needed to sign it for
political reasons. You're dang right that he would have bashed over the head by McCain & the media, just to have it come up agian in '04. As is, he gets twice as much hard money, plus he to an antidote for McCain's snyndrome. And the onerous parts will be thrown out immediately.
What is the saying about politics and sausage?
it is not just Political. Mostly, but that is also the only way to effectively kill this bill.
Of course now the press is saying the shrub doesn't have any core values, for obce they got it right.