Dr. Susan Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary/Center for American Progress. In this day and age - corporate greed and shady back-alley deals are the name of the game. And with such high levels of corruption and greed in our society - it can be very hard for those who are religious to follow the true teachings of their religion. This is especially the case for millions of Christians in this country - who are struggling to follow their beliefs and teachings in a country that - for the most part - is morally bankrupt. So - if you think that Jesus advocated leaving the less fortunate in the dust - and wanted a society where only the wealthy could prosper - then everything you know is wrong.

Lee Fang, The Nation Magazine, joins Thom Hartmann. It's bad enough that American big oil companies have so much influence on our political system - but now - foreign oil is invading our democracy too. Who's really bankrolling America's largest oil lobbying group and how are they able to do it?

Marc Morano, Climate Depot.com, joins Thom Hartmann. Every second - 2.4 million pounds of carbon pollution are being pumped into the atmosphere - warming the planet - and having disatrous effects on the environment. Is this startling statistic enough to make climate change deniers wise up to the perils of global warming?

Eisenhower and his Party in 1956 understood that America is a center-left nation, and so they supported many of those positions. As President Eisenhower wrote to his brother, Edgar, in a 1954 letter: "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. ((CHANGE)) Among them are HL Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." It looks like that negligible number of "stupid" people has taken over the Republican Party today, led by the Hunt brothers' successors, the Koch brothers. The question for today, as the Republican Party infighting spills over onto the national stage, is whether they'll go back to the center-left positions of Eisenhower and start winning elections again, or if they'll double-down on stupid to satisfy the Kochs, Adelsons, Murdochs, and Limbaughs of their party...