Not So Fast, Harry

Harry Reid was feeling pretty feisty after Ned Lamont's win in Connecticut yesterday:

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday he expects the Democrat who knocked off Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary to win in November and remains convinced his party will gain at least five Senate seats in the fall elections.

That quote was issued before the huge terrorism news broke from London involving flights to the U.S. The fall election, which was supposed to be about Iraq (according to the Dem playbook) is suddenly about terrorism once again, and that doesn't bode well for Dems or their new favorite guy, Ned Lamont.

How long do you suppose it will be before the nutroots proclaim this new terrorism threat as a conspiracy to take the attention away from their mini-win in CT and rob Lamont of the spotlight? (It's probably already happened, but I just haven't seen it yet.)

WACKO UPDATE: It didn't even take five minutes to find posts from the Democratic Underground claiming this whole thing is a Bush set-up (h/t The Corner):

“Obviously, Tony Blair's ass is on fire for being America's dogtail - as they like to call it in the UK. Stories like this are sponsored by his government and are planned way ahead and are designed for times like this to distract people from what's really going on and to try and cover his ass.”

“Seriously, when you read this kind of decription of events: ‘Sky said the Metropolitan Police arrests were the culmination of a big covert counter-terrorist operation lasting several months."It followed a pre-planned intelligence led operation by the Met's anti-terrorist branch and security service.’... You wonder about the timing of this 'security' action (causing huge disruption) right now.”

“Exactly—why now? Why is this major disruption being discussed NOW. What else is going on? This sounds lke another Bush diversion tactic...Get the media to discuss terror, because there is something else that they don't want us discussing. Bait & Switch technique.”

These people are so predictable.