BUSH PLANS FIRST VETO FOR SC RESEARCH: Rove Tells Denver Post in Editorial Meeting

From the Denver Post, and highlighted on Drudge:

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 - Bush's top political advisor and architect of his 2000 and 2004 campaigns - said in a meeting with the editorial board of The Denver Post.

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