Long Sunday Indeed...

From the Washington Post:

One reason for the slow White House response, said a Republican who has been in contact with several officials, is that so many high-level officials and aides were on vacation. Vice President Cheney, for instance, was in Wyoming and did not return unil Thursday, and Nicolle Devenish, the president's top communications adviser, is getting married in Greece with a number of mid-level aides in attendance.

So the question: Is this simply a case of (utterly unprecedented) PR ineptitude, or (as AvW has it) are they actually trying to tell us something important?