1. Mike Huckabee's daughter, who worked for Mike Huckabee's failed 2008 presidential campaign, has now joined Tim Pawlenty's failed 2012 presidential campaign as a "strategic adviser."

2. Failed presidential candidate Walter Mondale says that future failed presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is to blame for Minnesota's current budget fiasco:

He left basically the mess that we see — the huge deficits,” Mondale said. “He shifted these issues into the future so that he wouldn’t be around” ...

Pawlenty says that's not true, and he just put out a video (after the jump) saying that he didn't bow to the evil unions back in the glory days of 2004.