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Congresswoman slaughter of your state in a letter to speaker boehner signed by more than 75 members of the congress called on the house leadership to repudiate those comments. as leaders of the house that initially denied this, miss fluke the right to speak, the republicans have a special obligation to condemn the atrocious and hurtful words spoken by mr. limbaugh. leader pelosi also called on republican leaders to condemn limbaugh's comments. are you hearing from any republican senators on this? are you hearing any of them saying this isn't us talk, even though we disagree on the policy quest...

That's the bottom line. >> michael, i think you would agree -- >> we're beating a dead horse here. >> yeah, we are. >> let me go to michael on this. you called rush limbaugh entertainment. here's what i do for entertainment. i try to keep up with mitt romney. i try to keep up with this guy. he's my entertainment. here he was yesterday. on ohio news network yesterday. he was asked a direct question. where do you stand on this blunt amendment? the amendment was voted down today on a party line vote basically that said you shouldn't apply the health care bill of barack obama to coverage of birth ...

For president, if somebody says blunt, rubio amendment, first of all you should know what it is. and secondly, your political instinct should be, let's see, blunt and rubio. i'm for that. they are republicans. they are guys i want to have support me i'm for that bill. this is something that's been on the front pages of every major newspaper for the past three or four weeks. >> give a chance to respond. did he not know who blunt and rubio were? >> i'm not disagreeing with you here. i said the man answered honestly in the first instance. then the politics set in and he's made the course correcti...

Tied himself to his support for person hood amendments, his belief that roe versus wade was one of the worst decisions handed down by the supreme court, his support for the blunt/rubio amendment that says that bosses get to decide for their female employees what kind of access to health care they can have. and so every day there's another example of how out of touch the republicans are. mitt romney wants to be president of the united states, yet he fails to recognize what's important to women. we just want to make sure that the guy in the white house is focused on creating jobs, getting the ec...

Presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, a husband and wife, i'm not going there. >> "i'm not for the bill." "i'm not going there." that was mitt romney in an interview with the ohio news network, proclaiming that he is against something called the blunt amendment, or the blunt/rubio amendment. the amendment would let employers pick and choose what their employees get from health insurance. now, this, of course, sprung from a republican desire that your boss should be able to block you from getting contraception, specif...