[Timeout]

If I were taking bets, I would have to say the "overblown" and "vacation" complaints will first be aired on Hardball at 7PM. Just a hunch.

[nopardons]

And I wouldn't bet against you. LOL

[BigSkyFreeper]

If I were taking bets, I would have to say the "overblown" and "vacation" complaints will first be aired on Hardball at 7PM. Just a hunch.

Assuming that fathead is done hurling anti-semitic insults at Lieberman, you're probably right.

[Timeout]

Well, I was way off in my bet that the first Dem whining would start on Hardball.

Trolling over at DailyKos, these broke through at 8am EDT:

Ah. But the delicious irony that three months before a national election, we are at red alert again. Nothing like an American election to make the terror alert go through the ceiling. One wonders if we might use it to assess the administration's level of concern about its own chances.

...and....

how convenient to release this news the day after Lamont wins the primary. The politicization of "terror" reporting is so obvious