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THIS FIRST — READING THE TEA LEAVES — “While thousands have gathered at tea party rallies around South Carolina over the past 12 months, organizers are finding it difficult to turn their outrage into action,” reports The State. “Leaders of tea party and similar groups say their members disagree on the best way to build the movement. Some want to endorse candidates and get involved in elections. Others worry that aligning with major party candidates will undermine their principles, based on constitutional law and limited government.”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Whatchu talking bout? — Gary Coleman is joined by Motley Crue’s Vince Neil
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NATIONAL LENS — “The big news out of President Obama’s pre-Superbowl interview with CBS News’s Katie Couric is that the White House will convene a health care meeting with congressional leaders of both parties on Feb. 25,” writes the Washington Post’s Cillizza. “One notable element of the half-day gathering is that it will be televised in its entirety — much like the now-famous tété-a-tété between the president and House Republicans in the immediate aftermath of the president’s state of the union address. ‘What the president will not do is let this moment slip away,’ said an administration official. ‘He hopes to have Republican support in doing so — but he is going to move forward on health reform.’ Of course, Obama did not — and has not — laid out specific ways in which the impasse currently gripping the health care debate on the Hill can be broken. ‘The president has a decision to make: show some leadership and get health care done or allow it to slowly die,’ said one senior Democratic congressional aide. ‘Sending mixed messages and sticking to a vague outline doesn’t get it done.’”
OFFICIAL — Tim Scott is out of the Lt. Governor race, and in the First District running.
CLIMATE CHANGE — The White House, while happy with the support, says they’ll need more than Senator Graham.
WHAT CAN BROWN DO? Graham thinks Mass. Senator Brown may be part of the solution.
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DOOR-TO-DOOR — Rep. Joe Wilson was a Census taker in 1970’s!
DAYBOOK — THIS WEEK — The Beach Dems will hear from guest speaker Ashley Cooper, a candidate for lieutenant governor (BUFFET!) The Myrtle Beach Republican Women’s club will hear from Tim Scott. Joe Wilson is the featured speaker for the Friends of Scouting Banquet and son, Alan, is the guest for the Northern Horry Republican Club.
VIEWPOINT — WHERE THERE’S SMOKE — Dr. Henry Cupstid of the SC Academy of Family Physicians writes, “For family physicians one of the most oft-stated recommendations for a patient to improve their health is to stop smoking. As South Carolina’s largest physician specialty organization, we are on the front lines of helping people succeed in stopping smoking.”
HOW’D IT HAPPEN? The Greenville News has the behind-the-scenes efforts that landed Proterra in the Upstate.
AIKEN — Equine artist has found way to combine her loves
OCONEE — Deputy mourned after on-duty accident
CHARLESTON — Water — ‘The smell is gone’
NORTH CHARLESTON — Boeing brings extra workers to S.C. campus
VIEWPOINT II — The expression ‘a rising tide floats all boats’ best describes Charleston’s cruise business and its contributions to the local economy in 2010.
FINALLY THIS — HAPPY TO SEE ME — “Police say a Massachusetts man who stuffed 75 bottles of body lotion in his pants couldn’t slip away from authorities, hampered by slacks that were nearly bursting at the seams.”
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