With all the hype about womens healthcare and what they are trying to take away. why don't we take away viagra for men? Also everyone is talking about religion and birth control for women lets stop selling condoms for men (that's a form of birth control) stop selling those. How would all those politicians feel about that??? They won't be able to have all those women on the side!

I hope Rachel is going to talk tonight about the latest comments from the misogynist pig Rush Limbaugh. What an absolutely foul human being this man is. And he is barely a human being. Would Rush want to make videos to post on the internet of his his closet buddies having sex in the gym locker room at the gym he belongs too ? Men who are having sex boosted by viagra which is paid for by their insurance medical plan ? Probably not.

Rachel cannot let Rush Limbaugh's most recent insult to women go unchallenged. He seems to think that just because he has a specific audience of like minded neanderthals, he can say whatever runs through his disturbed mind and not be held accountable for it. Not only should he be held accountable, but the stations which carry his hate messages, as well as their advertisers.

I would like to know if the birth control bill includes exclusion of vasectomy procedures.

I sent a letter off to Clear Channel tonight in disgust of Rush Limbaugh's rant over the last two days. I thought I would share it with you.

Dear Clear Channel Communications;

After last nights broadcast of Rush Limbaugh concerning his comments about a college student and her attempts to bring medical help to fellow college students, I was ready to ask for his firing from your business. After tonight’s totally disgraceful exhibit of pure HELL, I am respectfully demanding you FIRE Rush Limbaugh from your radio stations and airwaves. Mr. Limbaugh has for years been on the edge of disgrace for your business and the Republican workhorse. It has been too long with everyone bowing down to him whenever he calls foul. Now it is your turn to save your business before you are asked to close down, and Fire this beast of a person. No one should ever have to listen this disgusting language over the airways.

Where are the Conservative Right and their Religious beliefs? How can you say that you are men of the Bible? This disgusting deliverance from this man, if you can call him that, has no place in a religious society. I can only hope that your own beliefs in God and the Bible will cause you to cancel his contract with your company and never bring him back to the airways.

James Simons

Does this legislation remove the insurance coverage for vasectomies?

I'm listening to you Rachel and I finally figured out why the 4 Republican women fell in line. The GOP 'convinced' them that if they voted against it they (the GOP) wouldn't be able to keep saying it is 'Religious Liberty' and 'government intrusion'. Yes. They are trying to get back the last three weeks. Too bad. They jumped the shark.

I agree with a lot of you here but I think you are missing the point about what the republicans try to achieve with the bill. It's all about money for the next election: they are trying to secure a good stream of money from the anti-aborption lobbyist for sure, but mainly from Corporations and HealthCare Insurance providers. And this is where the democrats do wrong for limiting their attack on the bill to the abortion issue. This is what's in the bill: (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.1467)

6) RESPECTING RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE WITH REGARD TO SPECIFIC ITEMS OR SERVICES-`(A) FOR HEALTH PLANS- A health plan shall not be considered to have failed to provide the essential health benefits package described in subsection (a) (or preventive health services described in section 2713 of the Public Health Service Act), to fail to be a qualified health plan, or to fail to fulfill any other requirement under this title on the basis that it declines to provide coverage of specific items or services because--`(i) providing coverage (or, in the case of a sponsor of a group health plan, paying for coverage) of such specific items or services is contrary to the religious beliefs or moral convictions of the sponsor, issuer, or other entity offering the plan; or`(ii) such coverage (in the case of individual coverage) is contrary to the religious beliefs or moral convictions of the purchaser or beneficiary of the coverage.

With that bill, your HealthCare insurance provider can decide on a moral conviction basis that they will not cover chimio-therapy (or any expensive medical procedure). The fact is that they already doing it with some medications. I have received notes from my provider telling me that they will not cover a treatment, prescribed by my doctor, because they consider it to be an experimental treament with no proven result.

Let's assume now that your provider is good to you and have no problem covering expensive procedures, abortion, experimental treatments. But now, it is your employer that could have a moral conviction conflict of contributing to a healthcare plan that provides the services above.

One needs to read the book by Jack Abramoff to really understand why(how) the only principles that politicians embrace is MONEY.

ok that Dan Dicker guy..? EXTREMELY informative! just excellent, bravo

GOP? Don't forget "The Family" by Jeff Sharlett. That, I believe, is what is in the future works.

double post

Pertaining to Sen. Kyl's statement about N. Korea I think Rachel is not paying attention. Mr. Kyl said that it proves that this administration is lax on national security issues, but he didn't mean it as a factual statement!!! (eh, eh, eh!!)

You know, anything Jon Kyl says comes with the automatic disclaimer of not being a factual statement. He's retiring next year. Who cares what Jon Kyl says, or thinks?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/kansas-abortion-bill-governor-sam-brownback_n_1307076.html

Dear Rachel and Bill:

Please consider covering the latest GOPervert assault on women, this time in Kansas. My understanding of this bill is that it allows a doctor to withhold information from a mother to prevent an abortion, even if the mother or fetus could die. If the mother dies, meh, there can be a wrongful death suit filed. DESPICABLE!!!

Rachel,

You asked in your show tonight, "What are you doing? You're bad at your job!" with regards to John Boehner's role as Speaker.

You'll perhaps laugh, but I honestly think he has decided that the House Republicans should stay on the birth control issue because (in small part) because of me.

When the transvaginal ultrasound fiasco popped up in Virginia, I began carefully collecting documentation from Virginia statutes that would either violate previous legislation, or would force the physicians to act in violation of the AMA code of ethics (thus losing their license) or refuse to perform the scan and suffer a $2,500 fine (they did put teeth in the bill).

I then sent all of this to every Virginia state senator's email.

For almost a week, I've been doing the same thing to Republican US House and Senate leadership, sending data on the state of the economy from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (I've sent you some recently).

The Speaker, all the GOP senators, and every leader of every House committee has been getting emails (with the links for reference), and though I know that very few will actually "see" these emails, I also know that the aides will see it - double-check the sources - and either talk amongst themselves or mention things to their respective bosses.

I know - it seems like I've got a lot of time on my hands, but copy/paste makes everything *really* speedy and I thought that maybe, just maybe, the pen (keyboard?) might have some of the influence that billionaires' dollars might.

So, I've literally been whispering into the ears of those who do the whispering. The result? The concern that things are getting better under the Obama administration remains high ... keeping everybody on defensive.

Yeah ... I know that they all have people in their offices who watch for things like economic indicators in order to judge how to voice certain policy opinions, etc. ... but I think that simply by keeping up the chatter with the office ... and between offices at lunch time, through Twitter, and via text ... the focus stays laser focused and that keeps the GOP on ANYTHING BUT jobs and the economy.

It's been fun to watch ... !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications

This link (yes, wikipedia) states that MINO (Man In Name Only) Limbaugh's boss company "was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008.^"

I'm sure you knew that already, and it might be fun to mess with Romney on the whole MINO Limbaugh's vile rant against Sandra Fluke issue. Just sayin'... ;-)

Bob McDonnell wrote a bill.

Uh oh here we go.

To read this bill will cause a chill.

Uh oh here we go

Cause he’ll stick a probe here

For an ultra sound there

Drop your robe,

for a probe.

Everywhere you turn a probe.

Bob McDonnell wrote a bill

For VP he’s no go………

Rachel,

The amendment to the highway bill that was rejected narrowly yesterday is horrible on many fronts. The fact that is was ejected by just a few votes is one reason. You did not mention that Susan Collins of Maine voted in favor of the amendment. Her arguement for that vote was pathetic. She has been thought of as a moderate even willing to "cross the aisle" from time to time. I think this vote entirely negates her past voting history. I hope you don't continue to give her a pass for this vote. It is an afront to the women of Maine and to all Americans who think it is is so diminishing to women. I also hope that the women who are now organizing to vote out state and federal officials who support these anti-women initiatives will be just as aggressive against Collins for the position she has taken on this issue. She must go too!!!