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Chimpy isn't the first president to try the ploy of claiming that he has pocket vetoed a bill, but simultaneously covering his ass by returning it with a statement of objections. Both daddy Bush and Bill Clinton acted in a similar (if not exactly identical) fashion. There are no magic words required to veto a bill. (In fact, the word veto never appears in the constitution). All that is necessary is for the president, within ten days, to return the bill to the house where it originated with a statement of his objections. Chimpy, notwithstanding his claim of a pocket veto, fulfilled the constitutional prerequisites of a "return veto".
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