Today's McClatchy newspapers carry an interesting analysis of the current veto threats issued by the White House. There are 10 domestic spending bills under veto threat by the White House. That's a good percentage of the domestic spending legislation before Congress. So, Kuhl's argument that he isn't a Bush rubberstamp is enabled by the Bush administration's new-found spending restraint.
The story also questions Kuhl's claim that S-CHIP is a "Democrat Bill":
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, for example, said the proposal was put together without input from Republicans.That isn't true. Senior Republicans such as Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee and a fiscal conservative, and Orrin Hatch of Utah helped draft the bill, and 18 Republicans in the Senate and 45 in the House of Representatives voted for it.
Moreover, Grassley contests Bush's objections to the children's health insurance bill.