Thanks to record-breaking rainfall last month – the Mississippi River is overflowing, pouring enormous floodwaters across – Louisiana – Mississippi – Missouri – and Tennessee. Several billions of dollars of damage has been reported. The Army Corps of Engineers is now relieving pressure on New Orleans levees by flooding thousands of acres in Louisiana, in a desperate bid to save the city from drowning in a disaster worse than Katrina. Record breaking twisters a few weeks ago – record breaking floods now – yet Republicans are pressing ahead denying climate change.

In fact – of the 43 Members of Congress representing the afflicted states – 38 have voted to block the EPA from enforcing greenhouse gas regulation. How many more homes destroyed – and people killed – will it take for Republicans to accept we are living in dangerous times with an increasingly volatile climate as a result of our destructive energy policy? Don’t the millionaire oil executives realize they can’t escape climate change either?

Oh, wait - that's right - they can afford million-dollar waterproof bunkers, one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States specifically designed for rich people to avoid everything from floods to wildfires.

-Thom

(Where would you put their bunker? Tell us here.)

The Daily Stack

Quote: "Equal laws protecting equal rights — the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country." -- James Madison.

Hour One: Koch machine...coming to a school near you Jamie Weinstein - Deputy Editor, DailyCaller.com .

Article: "FSU Accepts Funds From Charles Koch In Return For Control Over Its Academic Freedom" by Travis Waldron.

Article: "The Koch Brothers and the End of State Universities" by Juan Cole.

Smooth criminal alert: "Seattle home intruder goes back for sunglasses " by AP.

"Taking Our Country Back": Running for Congress against Republican Paul Ryan...yes, "that" Paul Ryan Rob Zerban, small business owner serving as a Kenosha County Supervisor. .

Site: Rob Zerban.

Article: "Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder" by Mark Mazzetti and Emily B. Hager.

Article: "IMF Chief Arrested In New York For Allegedly Forcing Hotel Maid To Give Him Oral Sex" by Joe Weisenthal.

Article: "Judge Denies Bail to I.M.F. Chief in Sexual Assault Case" by John Eligon.

Article: "What Are The Odds There's A Plot Against Dominique Strauss-Kahn?" by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry.

Article: "'He was a rutting chimpanzee': French journalist says IMF boss held for hotel maid sex assault tried to rape her TOO" by Peter Allen.

Article: "Did Fox News Tip Off John Ensign Instead of Covering The Story?" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "French writer to file assault complaint against Strauss-Kahn" by AFP.

Article: "Did Rick Santorum tip off John Ensign?" by John Bresnahan (7/9/09).

TV Series: "Mad Men".

Because I got high alert: "Deputies Mistake Tortilla Dough For Cocaine, Arrest Man" by Dana Wachter.

Talk Radio News Segment: Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent.

Article: "White House Press Gaggle With Jay Carney" by Lovisa Frost.

Article: "IMF Chief Denied Bail" by Phillip Bunnell.

Article: "Supreme Court refuses to consider 'torture flights' case, ending legal battle" by Howard Mintz.

Article: "Supreme Court gives police a new entryway into homes" by David G. Savage.

Hour Three: Why do powerful men always think they are above the law? Jeff Sharlet, author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" and "C Street" (and the forthcoming "Sweet Heaven When I Die").

Book: "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" by Jeff Sharlet.

Book: "C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy" by Jeff Sharlet.

Article: "Widespread GOP hypocrisy revealed in Ensign affair" by Doug Thompson.

Article: "Donald Trump Nixes Presidential Run" by Terence Burlij.

Why are conservative ok with raising the debt ceiling only at the expense of the poor? Conservative Economist Laurence Kotlikoff with the Pajamas Media PJ Institute.

Article: "No Debt Ceiling Deal Would Mean Loss Of 640k Jobs, Huge Stock Sell Off: Report" by Andy Sullivan.

Article: "The 2011 OASDI Trustees Report".

Site: "The Purple Tax Plan".

The good: Amy Myers: "High Schooler Challenges Michele Bachmann To Constitutional Facts Test" by Jon Terbush.

The bad: "Fox 5 banned from Nathan Deal immigration bill signing" by Rodney Ho.

The very, very ugly: "Ron Paul Calls Social Security and Medicare Unconstitutional, Compares Them to ‘Slavery’" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Why Mike Huckabee Chose Fox Over Presidential Candidacy" by Howard Kurtz.

Article: "America Held Hostage" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "Gingrich promises to slash taxes, calls Obama ‘food stamp president’" by Philip Rucker.

Article: "George Will: Newt Gingrich ‘Is Just Not A Serious Candidate’ For President" by Ben Armbruster.

Article: "Article IV, United States Constitution.

Article: "Opening Morganza Leads To Early Crest Of Mississippi River" by AP.

Article: "Japan Expands Nuclear Plant Exclusion Zone" by GSN.

Article: "Former Blue Dogs find lobbying jobs" by Aaron Mehta.

Article: "Ever wondered how long you'll live? $700 DNA test that gives the answer to go on sale by the end of the year" by Hannah Roberts.

Article: "Christie’s Views on Creationism: ‘None of Your Business’" by Lisa Fleisher.

Article: "GOP rep. to Obama: ‘I’m game’ for alligator-filled moat along U.S.-Mexico border" by Jonathan Strong.

Coming up Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program

Hour Two: Why does the right always think that the left "hate America" just because we disagree on the issues? Thom confronts Joe Hicks from PJTV's Hicks File...

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