Dem Reaction to Bush's Speech Was Preplanned

The Bush Administration is responding to the hysterical reaction the Dems had to the president's Knesset speech:

On Air Force One, not on camera, Bush counselor Ed Gillespie said the White House "did not anticipate" the reaction of congressional leaders to the Knesset speech, which he called "unjustified and unwarranted."

He said he was "surprised and curious" by the reaction. He noted that the president was restating long-standing policy. He challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden to "point to" a sentence "that they would say is reckless or outrageous."

He did not address Sen. Barack Obama's comments, saying, "We are happy to allow for Sen. Obama and others to express their own points of view" on dealing with Syria and Iran.

He acknowledged that the reference to Sen. Borah's comments about Hitler were included in the remarks because of the setting. He said the Knesset was an "audience where an understanding of taking the words of someone like Hitler seriously the distinction between good and evil is an important one."

Democrats were running to the cameras and microphones yesterday to condemn Bush, a reaction that was not exactly spontaneous:

While officials may have been "surprised" by the specific reaction, they had been touting the speech for days and even took the unusual step for this administration of releasing an advance text.

In other words, the Dems have known for days what Bush was going to say and in what context he was going to say it, and thus had plenty of time to plan their "outrage". You'd think with all that time to think about it they'd have come up with a better plan.