[RoseofTexas]

GOOD GOSH!! Why in hell does W love to kiss RATASSES!!! Sick of it, I tell you, just sick of it. Instead of burning the bums he continually thanks the RATS when they are with him on stage...remember how he kissed kennedy's butt?! FOR WHAT?! W tries to play nice while the RATS block every single bush agenda bill!! ENUFF!! ENUFF of this goody too shoes crap!!

[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.

[Dog Gone]

If you're really from Texas, you should know that Dubya is never going to be a jerk, even to those who richly deserve it. It's not his style, and it never will be.

He appeals to better nature of people, not the vindictive part.

Don't get me wrong. When he makes up his mind to take someone out, you can bank on it. He has stated on the record that the administration has decided that Saddam must go. So he will. He's a dead dictator walking.

But don't look for Bush to stoop to Daschle's level. He won't do it.

[bluefish]

Bush has a high approval rating (which was rapidly climbing before Sept. 11 mind you) so kissing up to the Dems is working. Not on the Dems, as you correctly observe, but certainly on the VOTERS. Bush has his eye on the upcoming elections. If he gets the Senate back, he can continue to smile at and kiss the Dems yet get to work without their obstruction. Gamesmanship at work. I think Bush is a natural at it and he isn't just merely executing a cynical strategy out of some theorist's book the way the Clinton's do.

[Cyber Liberty]

Thank goodness folks who know how the game is played are in charge.