Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog joins Thom Hartmann. Just when you thought the Gingrich campaign couldn't face any more bombshells. See how Newt may be facing some new hurdles to sleaze his way through.

The Good! Crédit Municipal de Paris. The 375-year old French bank has made the decision to cancel the debts of many of its poorest customers. The Bad! Rick "Don't Google My Name" Santorum. One of Santorum's go-to policy proposals over the GOP primary season and his entire career has been to limit the payments victims of medical malpractice can seek through lawsuits. And The Very Very Ugly! The Wall Street Journal. The WSJ recently published an Op-Ed piece written by sixteen prominent global warming deniers with various - and minimal - scientific backgrounds - including the likes of oil company executives.

There's still no relief in sight for struggling American homeowners. Especially after we learned this week that mortgage giant Freddie Mac - which was in charge of keeping Americans in their homes - was actually betting on people getting kicked out of their homes. Since the George Bush meltdown in 2007 - 9 million homes in American have been lost to foreclosure. And as of right now - another 4 million are in danger of foreclosure. But even more troubling than these disturbingly high foreclosure numbers - is what's behind them. And how this foreclosure crisis is disproportionately affecting minority homeowners. Joining me from New York to speak to this issue is Janell Ross - Business Reporter with the Huffington Post

David Selig, Conservative Strategist vs. Thom Hartmann. In 2010 - just like every two years - every single seat in the House of Representatives was up for election. And thanks to the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision earlier that year - outside corporate front groups were given free reign to spend unlimited amounts buying the election. Which they did. Over $300 million was spent in the 2010 midterm election - that's more than a 400% increase in outside spending from the last midterm election in 2006. And because most of that outside money came from big corporations that want deregulation and billionaires who want tax cuts - Tea Party Republicans won in a landslide victory - and have since defend their corporate and billionaire donors relentlessly. They've blocked the most meager of tax increases on millionaires and billionaires. They've blocked attempts to cut off oil subsidies for transnational oil corporations. They've tried to destroy elements of Dodd-Frank, the Wall Street reform law that gives shareholders a say in CEO pay and ends too-big-to-fail bank bailouts. And all the while they've been attacking working people - voting to end Medicare and replace it with a voucher program - to cut home heating assistance for the poor - and holding unemployment benefits and tax cuts for the middle class hostage in exchange for extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich. It's the best House of Representatives money can buy.