On primary days, unlike primary evenings, the political news pickings are slight. Robert Kagan weighs in here on the politics of the surge and Mitt Romney’s calculated language last year when the new policy was at risk. Stephen Hayes reaches the same conclusion I do on the flap about Justice Alito. Otherwise, the lack of heated Democratic responses to the State of the Union is a telling sign–there was not much there, there and even less new there. The last year of the Bush presidency appears to be guided by the Hippocratic Oath: do no harm. If President Bush can block any tax increases, prevent Democratic interference with Iraq policy, and maintain a measure of fiscal discipline, then conservatives and the potential Republican presidential nominees will no doubt be pleased.