WaPo: Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have announced that they will not attend the National Tea Party Convention next month.

WaPo: MSNBC host David Shuster got into a shouting match Thursday afternoon with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart over the arrest of four men trying to tamper with phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.

Gawker: And compounding the TMI factor, Edwards “is physically very striking, in a certain area. Everyone who sees it says ‘whoa.’”

Editors Weblog: The Drudge Report got 3.2 million visitors in January, against about 2.9 million for the Huffington Post. The race is on.

LA Weekly: “What Do Anarchists Read? Scenes from the Anarchist Book Fair” plus photo gallery.

WaPo: At RNC meeting in Honolulu, Chairman Michael Steele opposed resolution to purge moderates from GOP.

LA Weekly: The last day was contentious as anti-gay’s expert witness wilted under questioning from Boies.

CNN: Two-thirds of speech-watchers who were questioned said the president will succeed in improving the economy, with nearly six in 10 saying he’ll succeed in creating jobs. But people who viewed the address were split on whether Obama will be successful in improving health care and reducing the deficit.

Oh, you betcha I’m going to be there. I’m going to speak there because there are people traveling from many miles away to hear what that tea party movement is all about and what that message is that should be received by our politicians in Washington. I’m honored to get to be there.

— Sarah Palin, giving a preview of the kind of convoluted syntax we expect from her address to the upcoming Tea Bag Party convention.

New Yorker: Jeffrey Toobin reminds us that Justice Samuel Alito’s disgraceful “You lie!” moment during the State of the Union speech was animated by both political opposition and personal animosity toward Pres. Obama.