(White House/Pete Souza)
–From this week’s newsstand issue of TIME: What Obama sees in Reagan, What Joe heard in the State of the Union, what Republicans feel about John Thune.
–Michelle Rhee builds a political apparatus.
–Obama will try to get recess-appointed CMS head Donald Berwick through the Senate.
–Mideast protests spread to Yemen.
–Bill Keller recounts dealing with Julian Assange.
–Mitt Romney’s team has talked about sitting out Iowa altogether.
–Jim DeMint will go there.
–Tim Pawlenty might be better served by staying vanilla.
–Mitch Daniels didn’t watch the State of the Union.
–Harry Reid is still prickly about earmarks.
–Matt Yglesias crystallizes the left’s frustration with the White House over tactics.
–The full FCIC report drops.
–And Halperin: Salter wrote “O.”