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- Former Obama aides’ independent expenditure group Priorities USA Action is up with its first ad of the 2012 cycle, hitting Mitt Romney on local stations in South Carolina this weekend.
- Romney et al. accuse Obama of “throwing Israel under the bus” in Thursday’s speech, even though there’s nothing particularly new about calling for the 1967 borders to be a starting point in negotiations.
- Did the speech give Syria’s Assad a reprieve?
- Jon Huntsman hits his first New Hampshire eatery. Here’s his answer to the obligatory ambassador question: “I didn’t serve President Obama. I served my President.”
- He also staked out an isolationist position on Libya.
- Where Huntsman stands with Mormons.
- Goodwin Liu’s appellate court nomination was successfully blocked by Senate Republicans (plus Ben Nelson, minus Lisa Murkowski). Liberal legal watchers cried hypocrisy and conservatives answered in kind; Liu probably went down as retaliation for his testimony against Samuel Alito in 2006.
- Republicans still bedeviled by New York special elections.
- Leon Panetta sends out a memo warning CIA staffers to stop leaking stuff to the press, but since you’re reading this, the memo got leaked too.
- And the literati sheep that shot Gingrich, illustrated.