Carrie Underwood and husband Mike Fisher welcomed their first child, a son named Isaiah Michael Fisher, born Feb. 27. The country singer shared the news with her fans on Twitter on Tuesday.

That twitter announcement immediately sparked a firestorm of criticism.  Senior congressional Republicans were incensed, claiming that the timing of the news release was intended to distract from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s historic speech.  Congressman Aaron Schock (R-Ill), from his Downton Abbey themed office, was quoted as saying, “This is just another example of how far the Obama administration will go to distract the American public from it’s failed policies.”  Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have accused the NSA of succumbing to White House pressure and deliberately blocking Underwood’s twitter feed until early this morning, just before the historic speech.  Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) noted, “The child was born 4 days ago.  Isn’t it odd that the announcement was only released this morning?”

On the left, Democratic Sen. Barbara Mukluski (D-MD) accused Texas Senator and Tea Party leader Ted Cruz (R-TX) of trying to unfairly malign President Obama’s attempt to secure a negotiated solution to Iranian nuclear ambitions, “We could never have imagined that the Senator would stoop this low.”  She accused the junior senator from Texas of working behind the scenes to influence Underwood and her husband to name the child after a prominent Jewish biblical figure and then announce the child’s name moments before Netanyahu’s speech.  Underwood and her husband have denied any interference from the senator’s office in the child’s naming.  A spokesman for Underwood said, “We have not been in contact with Sen. Cruz’s office and deny any involvement.  We just kinda thought it would be a cool name, for a child of a country musician, ya know.”

National Security adviser Susan Rice entered the fray when she claimed that,  “This incident is, to our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, …it was spontaneous — not premeditated.”  Her reference to a spontaneous event, similar to her characterization of Middle East protests in 2012, immediately triggered a sharp response from senior republican Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain, “She’s not qualified,” McCain said on CBS’s This Morning. “Anyone who goes on national television and attempts to characterize this as spontaneous is clearly misleading the American public.”

Attorney General Eric Holder has announced his office is opening a civil rights investigation.  When reached for comment this morning his office released the following statement, “I think that what I’m doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.”  However the justice department has yet to indicate in what manner anyone’s civil rights were violated. The announcement did get the attention of Al Sharpton who is currently en route to Nashville.  This morning at La Guardia airport when questioned Rev. Sharpton said, “The National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.”  When pressed for more details Sharpton lashed back, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”

Meanwhile, the country crooner also dished on her pregnancy cravings, “I have been a little more vegetarian than vegan especially with traveling, so it’s a little hard to order food from hotels and stuff when you’re vegan.  Now I’m pregnant, it’s like, I can’t just order steamed broccoli. That’s not going to cut it. I’ve modified a little bit, but I think I’ve stayed pretty normal.”

Fisher and Underwood married in July 2010, and this is their first child. Congrats to the new parents!