White House couldn't have asked for better timing

The announcement today of Sonia Sotomayor for Associate Justice of The Supreme Court could, in reality, have not come at a better time for the Obama administration.
After North Korea received international criticism for it's nuclear detonation and subsequent missile test this weekend it looked like the news cycle was going to be consumed with questions on Obama's National Security cred as well as ample 'what-if' scenarios.
Instead news agencies are pumping their juices at maximum to get the latest details, tidbits and reactions from both sides of the aisle in an attempt to try and frame how the confirmation debate is going to play out for the public and on the Senate floor.
the White House also gets a bit of a bonus in the fact that congress is currently not in session and many of the key conservative reactions have come from right-leaning interest groups and think tanks instead of from an organized press conference on the steps of the capitol. For now though it appears that the Sotomayor dog has yet to bark, at least amongst the highest echelons of Republican politics. Many GOP Senators and Representatives are tentatively carrying out a "wait and see" approach, not wanting to seem overtly hostile to the nation's first hispanic nominee, but at the same time not seeming to want to abandon their base, which is ready to draw the knives and prepare for a drawn out idealogical battle.
Another interesting story that seems to have been buried today is that Obama, who will be heading out to Europe to commemorate World War 2 anniversaries and give a major speech in Cairo, Egypt will also be visiting Saudi Arabia. A move the White House has successfully downplayed due to the flap over Obama allegedly 'bowing' to it's leader King Abdullah during their last meeting.