Oops! Kay Bailey Hutchison gets ahead of Pentagon.

The press release clocked in at 4:14 p.m. -- Sen. Hutchison announces Boeing's Air Force Tanker will generate $125 million for Texas -- before the 5:00 p.m. scheduled Pentagon announcement. While kudos to Hutchison for wanting to be the first to announce a big contract for Texas, it was flat-out wrong. In fact, the Pentagon chose Europe-based EADS, parent of Airbus and U.S. partner Northrop Grumman for the $40 billion contract instead of Boeing. At 4:38 p.m., another Hutchison message - "please disregard earlier tanker statement."

-- Maria Recio