First, Mitt Romney said he was opposed to the Blunt amendment, then walked back comments saying he supports it. MSNBC hosts Lawrence O'Donnell and Melissa Harris-Perry discuss his slip-up and why it could stop him from chipping away at Santorum's momentum.
Last night, Melissa joined "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" to discuss the Blunt amendment, and this morning, the U.S. Senate is debating that amendment at this very moment on the floor before a vote. We're keeping an eye on that, and these things as well:
- The tornado that struck Harrisburg, Illinois has killed six.
- New Jersey voters' support for same-sex marriage is at an all-time high. But Governor Chris Christie doesn't like it, so hey.
- Another thing Governor Christie doesn't like? The NYPD spying on Muslims in his state.
- Six African American voters in South Carolina have a redistricting lawsuit that could force the state to redraw each of its 123 districts, and they now will have their day in court.
- How much does the Ohio primary matter to the Republican presidential contenders? A whole bunch.
- We're waiting with bated breath to hear Sheriff Joe's conclusions on the President's birth certificate. In the meantime, a U.S. district judge has a (quite offensive) theory.
- Our own Rev. Al Sharpton writes about how he plans to recreate the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march.
- Slate's Dahlia Lithwick argues that Virginia's revised, non-transvaginal ultrasound bill is just as bad.
- A woman was denied communion at her own mother's funeral, because she's gay.
- Andrew Breitbart is dead.


Mitt Romney is a robot. Not even a good robot. He's a poor example of a per-programmed politician. He can't get anything right because he has too much data to memorize.
When you're being genuine...you don't have to keep trying to remember what your handlers told you to say. When you're being genuine, you don't mess up so much. Romney is pandering and spouting talking points. His nervous system keeps overloading. No one can be Romney-the-Robot 100% of the time.
Until he either gives up on the charade or gets himself hypnotized, Mitt Romney will continue to be the candidate born with a silver foot in his mouth.
For the last 3 years of President Obama's Admnistration, I've been writing on FB, that we Dems, had to show a better alliance with Obama, and help him with Change.... In the 60s, as a young teenager, I worked with wonderful Guest Workers in the local Ca. lemon fields, and had fun. When the Program was misteriously ended, and corporate farm owners began using workers who came here illegally, Caesar Chavez stepped up and taught Americans how to boycott against terrible working conditions, etc. We did the infamous nationwide lettuce boycott. It worked, and conditions farming and living conditions changed for the better. Obama needed us to confront the corporation we think are harming Americans, to do more than Tweet and gripe at the Administration to do all the heavy lifting against bad deals. Occuppy Wall St. was ok, but a Chavez kind of leader was needed. Obama was busy trying to save jjobs and the Bush economy, and citizens should have found a private sector leader. We could have and should have done our part, in the Change We Can Believe In. As Pastor Winans said during the Whitney Houston memorial, we can't wave a magic wand to make changes.... I wanted MSNBC to be more vocal when Ed Schultz was using throwing around the 'slanthead' word and the 'b' word at individual people. They finally quietly suspended Ed for a week, and swept it under their corporate rug. Adult name calling is where our kids get their bullying from, and think about who on what sides use bad language on TV. The Daily Show is funny, but do we need the 'm...f...' word used daily for laughs. We have had so many instances where we the people could have made our own changes, and got lazy. Look at all the employers and even private citizens who exploit illegal workers to save a buck, and drive-down middle class wages. Where are the citizen boycotts against those CEO's. The fine Caesar Chavez must be turning over and over. It's time we finally stood up to Rush Limbaugh, and start the civic responsibility ball in motion. I'm a disabled Vet., trying to do my part, for America and Barack Obama.
Martin Bashir, with your short segments some things don't get expanded upon. There is a difference between single parents, who are forced into that by domestic violence, cheating or drug involved spouses, or death in the family. Those who choose to be a single parent, due to a lack of committement to marriage while raising children in a balanced home, is rolling the dice of kids not fairing well. Those who hate men, or just can't be bothered with a relationship, probably shouldn't have kids. I was a drug councilor in the 80's, and the children of disfunctional and single parents overloaded with duties, failed greatly. Your guest sited 70% success rate of single parents to keep their kids out of poverty, food stamps, etc. The 30%, if that is an acturate %, are the ones who grow-up to fall through all kinds of cracks. As a child of a post-partum mother, my life would become very hard from the lack of one parent (my dad working so much,) and it was my sister who failed greatly. Drugs, pregnant in High School and dropping out, and never having more than minimum wage jobs. I was saved by getting drafted and having the GI Bill, and self-disapline. I went to college, but still, my family struggled to educate my sister and I, and luckily I was able to make up for some of that. My sister fell through all of the cracks, who raised a daughter who later got into drugs and abandoned her son. Those who criticize single parenting, by chose, are not bad people or mis-guided, the care about kids. Melissa Harris-Perry blocked me on her FB page, because I say things like this. Blocking a disabled Vet., from speaking from the heart?
On CNN, Begala just justified Bill Mar using the "C" word to describe Palin, while discussing Limbaugh's use of the "S" word. None of this is acceptable, comedian or talk show host. I went after Ed Schultz for using the "B" word and slanthead a number of times to descibe Hennity. These are the words our kids pick up on to bully others, and immature adults use to vent or make people laugh. The laughter is immature, the political leverage is immature, and our kids get de-educated. 2012 years of bullying, when and where does it stop. I'm a Dem for respect and self-respect, period. You can't have respect for others, if you allow yourself to use slanderous sarcasum and hate words. Pass it on.
I just now got blocked on Facebook, by Facebook, because I didn't give them my mobile phone number. I don't have a mobile phone. I live on a $1k a month V.A. Disability Pension budget, and a cellphone is not what I spend money on. Somehow, I'm not qualified to be on social media, because I don't have all of the gadgets. I tried to enter my dial-up phone number, but again, it doesn't qualify. Zuckerburg, young man, your age is showing.
I'm not sure how the present concern for voter's rights, can be linked to Immigration rights. I know of and know a lot of African-American and Hispanic-American citizens who do not like illegal immigration or even The Dream Act. Those who came here legally, for the opportunities America may have, don't see those opportunities, because of the strain on real jobs and a real economy. How is illegal immigration a right? How do those legal citizens who's families have been here for a long-long time, get the opportunities, we now say the illegal immigrants are coming here to get. How do the people crammed into inner cities get the opportunities when overly-empathetic people want or at least overlook the effects of over-population, lack of water resources, the strain on the beautiful landscape many of use have worked for - not have a voice in not wanting a continuation of illegal immigration and the rights this segment wants for themselves? It is not a nation of doing anything we please, it's many of us trying to get some sanity in all of our planning. Good education for all of our citicens cannot happen if we keep straining the systems with overloads. Over populated countries are the evidence of bad planning.