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* From Politico: Marcy Winograd, once again mounting a primary challenge from the left to U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) in her Venice-to-Torrance district, has a dream that outsiders keep out of the way in primary fights -- she thinks a fund-raising letter Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) wrote on Harman's behalf is "inappropriate" although such collegial interventions are par for the course. (We briefed Waxman's letter last month.)

Winograd, in her own letter to Waxman, repeatedly impugns his patriotism and dreams that Harman "allegedly conspired with members of AIPAC" to subvert due process (to this day no one knows the identity of Harman's alleged interlocutor in her conversations about the case against former AIPAC staffers). She also forgets to dream that Harman was cleared, as were the AIPAC staffers, although she immediately follows on with dreamy references to "constitutional rights." Her dreams about presumptions of innocence do not, apparently, extend to her opponent.

Politico also quotes a fund-raiser for Winograd as saying that she is "not an anti-Israel candidate" although she is on the record advocating a one-state solution.

* In another possible Jewish Democrat v. Jewish Democrat Golden State face-off, blogger Mickey Kaus is considering a primaries run against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). Kaus will run to her right, although he has been more skeptical of pro-Israel orthodoxies than she has. In fact, that may be one of the few areas in which he lives up to his self-promotion as a contrarian; I've found him to be more of a Samurai in a lost, poignant forest; a nostalgian for fights that his side has already won, from railing against the the dwindling-to-non-existent labor movement to ranting against affirmative action, long after it has been drummed into oblivion by a litany of court rulings. Anyway, AOL News runs down the for and against of it.