I read the following in a NY Times article on 1/25/2004 entitled Whoop, Oops and the State of the Political Slip;

**...consultants for Mr. Bush tried in vain to get him to control his smirk. Still, the smirk slips out from time to time, as it did last week during the president's State of the Union address when Democrats clapped at Mr. Bush's warning that the Patriot Act, an antiterrorism law, would soon expire.

"Bush is vulnerable when that smirk rears its ugly head," said a Republican strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It comes across as not only cocky, but arrogant, and nobody likes an arrogant politician."**

It made me chuckle that people were trying to get the Smirkiemeister to control his smirks, because obviously it didn't work.