Thom discusses workers' rights and the Wisconsin recall effort against Gov. Walker with Rep. Tammy Baldwin. Also discussed: an IMF official's concession that austerity is harming Greece, the pathetic state of America's nuclear plants and Thom's "Daily Take" on why Americans are forced to strive to be millionaires.

Twice this week a single payer healthcare bill has failed to pass in California. What's going on - and who's really pulling the strings in Sacramento? You would thing a largely Democratic state government could pass a single payer healthcare bill - right? Wrong. What's really behind California's inability to act?

The Governor of Arizona is waging a new war - and it's not about trying to find President Obama's birth certificate, but it does have to do with Unions. What is she trying to do now - and how will it effect the citizens of Arizona?

Congressman Jeff Landry (R-LA, 3rd district) joins Thom Hartmann. When I was 13 years old, in 1964 - I remember going door-to-door with my dad campaigning for Barry Goldwater. But that was when the Republican Party was different - A LOT different than it is today. That was when the idea of the United States as a war machine that should bring democracy to the farthest reaches of the planet to shove our way of life on others down the barrel of a gun was unthinkable. And most relevant to today - that was a time when the thought of indefinitely detaining Americans who might be suspected of terrorism would have been unthinkable to Conservatives.And besides, that wasn't what Barry Goldwater - the Republican nominee for President in 1964 - believed in. He would have been outraged. This was a Republican Party that rallied behind Dwight Eisenhower - and elected him President of the United States twice in 1952 and 1956. Eisenhower ALSO did not believe in an all-powerful military-security complex - famously saying THIS in his "Cross of Iron" speech in 1953.