Some reads for today, 2/17

1. Joe Biden touts the success of the Recovery Act on its one-year anniversary, while RNC Chair Michael Steele counters with why the stimulus has failed.  
2. Dana Milbank writes that Steele treated tea party leaders "like an ugly date" when they met yesterday afternoon.
3. The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus thinks both parties lose with Sen. Bayh's retirement, while a Wall Street Journal editorial credits the senator's departure from politics as an example of "the failure once again of liberal governance."
4.  And health care reform has not been forgotten.  Here is a roundup of thoughts on what needs to be done to salvage reform.