I won't get to see the show until the rerun but I hope you all talk about what happened in the MA House last night. You like bashing Repubs about union rights and say that it isn''t about the $$$. Tell it to the Dems in MA. They seem to think it is about the $$$. I think they're right.

No offense intended to those who don't agree.

@PeterMac- this only furthers my belief that people don't remember that we're in a recession...le sigh

In actual news the supreme court now says it's constitutional for companies to make you sign a contract agreeing to waive your right to class action lawsuits. See in a free-market consumers have to be protected so they can make informed decisions about purchasing products and they have to be given an avenue whereby they can protest companies and/or products they are upset w/ and where they can sue when harm is done to their family/person. This, of course, is anti-business and explains exactly why Republicans hate the free-market.

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-supreme-court-says-no-to-class-action-arbitrations-absent-parties-agreement-and-invokes-h

The End of Mr. Y sounds a little like Sophie's World.

culture war continues in Florida: House bills would limit reproductive rights (including one that's anti-corporation, and another reapportioning funds from Choose Life license plates)

Will you be covering the arrest of Nicole Sandler at the West townhall? Sure hope this gets some coverage.

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http://bitly.com/kgbGVD

PLEASE! This woman was handcuffed, jailed, maced, fined for rebutting West's lies at a Town Hall meeting. Please share this!

I'm so glad to be finally joining the Maddow online community! Keep up the good work guys!

I am FROM St. Louis (Go Cards!), and I got HOOKED on TRMS while living in Hawaii last year. 5 or 6 hours difference, depending on whether the East Coast (where I am now) is on daylight savings time or not.

And Bill - GO to Hawaii! You will LOVE it.

-Susan

Please ask Sen. Sanders to submit a bill in congress to strip race from birth certificates. Make it illegal to ask a person's race on a job application. Make it so employers must personally interview each and every candidate. Currently, some are weeded out before they even get a sniff at the job. This will tell me everything I need to know about America.

We can all sit back and see who votes yes and who votes no.

Can the republicans stomach a world where race isn't written down on a piece of paper?

Why can't we just be the human race in America?

Rachel,

Pertaining to your piece about how much the "right" has to spread their lies through the media compared to what the "left" has to refute those lies. Well, this is where I blame the greedy media that will take hordes of cash and promote these lying advertisements that they know are lies.

Sometime the media must stand up and say, "ENOUGH!" We don't care how much ,money we are having thrown at us we will choose integrity over lies. It must come down to the entities that are accepting the cash to say no more, or this assault on our democracy will continue to our democracy's end.

...ans another thing. How many obs are these corporations creating by paying thousands of $$$ for their campaign to tear down the social safety net? Where are the jobs?

Something to think about. Why would one want to remove the safty net and give the money saved to the rich? Why would they claim trickle down when it is really trickle out of the country? Why? Simple, because the global economy has shown the rich in this country what 3rd world countries treat their poor like. They want to turn this country into an India or China. They kill their poor in those country and by removing the safety net they can kill poor in the US. The poor in those countries are illeterate and if they take away the pale grant and public schools the poor in the US can be illiterate too. Then as they have been saying the World Economy Can Be Flat as the US will be 3rd World too. That's why they want children to work under minimum wage just like they do in India instead of going to school. It's easy to see when you pull away from the trees and look at the big picture.

As the DC Elected ones are 5 years behind the reality of our situation, I am afraid the media is at least 3 years behind. The 2010 elections were purchased. Whom we could vote for was purchased 10 months before the votes were cast. Whom we can vote for in 2012 and what will be the issues are presently in negotiations. The $800K mentioned on tonight's show is a small amount compared to what is coming from Fascist-Corporatist organizations. That amount can buy enough propaganda to assure us that Obama and the few actual left-wingers will be accused of trying to destroy Medicare and Social Security by preventing Ryan's plan from passing.

I do not understand why the press is even bothering to report anything. They should just post the Rove and Armey press releases as their news. I have been warning of this for a long time and I am just a guy.

We are about to see the conscious and careful co-opting of the entire American economy and people for the benefit of Corporate-Fascist elements who have been waiting in the wings.

Think of this- ONE billion dollars can put $800K into 1250 separate elections, or propositions, or floor fights. Does anyone think the Democrats can come up with even close to that and still have a billion left to elect Obama? Face it. NOTHING the progressives can wish for can get done in enough volume to turn this around. Denial is NOT a river in Egypt, it is what the Fascists are counting on. Worked well for Hitler and Pol pot and Mussolini. Except this time there is no USA to stop it, because it got privatized - it is called Halliburton and Blackwater now.

my question is if President Obama's dad has anything to do with his his right to be President, why is it not been a question for former Presidents to have been done this way, I'm sure there are Presidents who's parents were born outside of the United States, places like Ireland, Germany etc. so whats the answer to that question.

thank you for allowing me to post my question

whomever doesn't like the trms or it's host, just needs to change the channel and spare the rest of us your personal opinion.

This whole birther issue and many other similar groups are all about hate for the president. They will do and say whatever they wish, usually in poor taste, to keep their message alive. No matter what he says or does, it will never be enough.

I thought Americans were smarter than that.

Please folks, think long and hard about what you're allowing in your homes (via tv) and in your minds (via the vile rhetoric you hear 24/7). Be strong and form your own opinions.

I wish the Trumpster would go back to his old job. I am sick to death of seeing and hearing him. Let's give some air time to someone who has something to say.

Rachel,

Your closing of tonight's show with Goldie Taylor was the most compelling television I have seen in a long, long time. Concise and to the point, it was simply an emotional moment I will not soon forget. Thank you!

SCOTUS continues assault on the average, everyday American with ruling on class-action lawsuits.

PS - this whole Sotomayor and Kagan thing isn't working out as hoped. hm; kinda like the Obama presidency itself, now that i think about it.

Rachel,

I love your show. I have to watch it online because I work 2nd shift, but I have no choice but to stop watching. I can't stand listening to those horrible ExxonMobile ads anymore. They're trying to make fracking sound like a great thing, and I just can't stand having to swallow that garbage every few minutes just to watch your next segment. So until those ads are gone, I'll have to say goodbye.

When the old people have to spend vital energy and resources to protest against the fascist and oiligarchic criminal attempt to steal a country, how difficult is it to understand that Democrat politicians are not fighting valiantly to save their country is simple????????????????????????????????

In Philosophy and Technological development the basic rule is this:

When all possible rational explanations are exhausted the solution is the obvious, seemingly unlikely solution.

In our currently devolving current events the answer is simple.

Much of that billionaire money is going into Dem pockets to pay them to hide under their beds while the old people fight their own fight.

Duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Random thought ... There was talk years ago about elected public officials starting a movement for change in the Presidential election process for foreign born candidates (Arnold) ... are any of these same elected officials now part of this disclose the birth certificate nonsense?

I can't stand Bill Wolff and his stupid music. He is not Rachel and he never will be, why these stupid vids from him.