[RJayneJ]

It's called 'killing them with kindness.' If Dubya let on that he was displeased that Daschle and Johnson were crashing the party to upstage him, it would be frontpage news for days. So, he killed them with kindness and marginalized them both.

[truth_seeker]

It's called 'killing them with kindness.'

Bush seems to have mastery of this technique; a subtleness which escapes many strident conservatives. The technique works, too.