Ultimately - President Obama's deal is heavy on spending cuts - light on tax hikes. So even if Republicans set aside their urge to crash the economy for political and personal financial gain - and agree to President Obama's lopsided debt-limit proposal...is this REALLY a good deal for the majority of Americans? Are cuts to Medicaid and Medicare without tax hikes on millionaires and billionaires a good idea? The answer is simply no. There's a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research on Medicaid that plays into this. Plus Brzezinski spoke out about wealth inequality and social unrest.

Thom talks about the possible backlash society will endure if an unreasonable budget deal is passed. Later in the show, he discusses the influence of "info-tainment" news coverage in America.

A Florida jury found Casey Anthony not-guilty of murder yesterday. In Thom's Daily Take - he exposes who else needs to be facing a jury of their peers now that this national distraction is over.

Are we becoming a nation of fear if taking a photo of a flight attendant can get you thrown off the plane? Thom speaks with TJ McCormack, Conservative Commentator/Fox News Contributor joins Thom Hartmann.

Gov. Dan Malloy, Thaddeus McCotter and Rush Limbaugh.

Former white supremacist KKK leader David Duke goes anti-semitic at Thom Hartmann. Thom also asks him if he's running for President as a Republican?

Heather Cirmo & Jamie Weinstein, Daily Caller join Thom Hartmann on the debt, the Ohio voting law and Casey Anthony/DSK - media got them both wrong.

David Selig, Conservative Commentator joins Thom Hartmann. The deal President Obama is pushing for includes closing tax loopholes on corporations, millionaires, and billionaires in exchange for trillions of dollars in spending cuts targeting mostly working class families - a deal that Conservative columnist David Brooks referred to earlier this week as "the mother of all no-brainers" for Republicans. But the Republican "Party of No" - isn't interested in making deals - it's interested in crashing the economy. Speaker John Boehner immediately threw cold war on the President's message yesterday - saying that bipartisan talks are "fruitless" if even a nickel of tax increases on corporations, on millionaires like him, or on the billionaires who fund Republicans is on the table. So how can that possibly be a constructive tone heading into another round of negotiations with the President? Are Republicans - the self-proclaimed "adults in the room" willing to crash the economy if they don't get every single thing they want? And how can they get away with this?

Thom debates Conservative Commentator, David Selig about the Republican's plan on repairing the nation's economy. He then examines the truth behind the amount of taxes American corporations pay and the coverage of the Casey Anthony trial in comparison to the lack of coverage of Wall Street's role in the recession.

If illegal immigrants are in a "tent city" AZ prison w/temps of 145 degrees - shouldn't the CEOs that hired them be there too? The second we DO start taking a hard-line on corporate crime - especially against CEOs who hire those illegal immigrants that give Sherriff Joe his purpose in life - then prison conditions will miraculously improve. Just as run-down city blocks crippled by crime and poverty are gentrified with new high rise condos and high-class steakhouses - let's gentrify the prisons with corporate executives. Then maybe we can get some air conditioning in Arpaio's tent city - and toilets for the inmates in California...after all - banksters need their amenities.

Rick Wingrove, Virginia State Director, American Atheists / Navy Veteran, joins Thom. Yesterday was the Fourth of July - a day to celebrate our nation's independence with fireworks - barbecues - and flashy red-white and blue clothing. Or...if you're one atheist organization - a day to promote your god-less agenda! Some of you may have noticed yesterday planes flying around the nation dragging banners that read, "God-LESS America" and "Atheism is Patriotic" The group's President Dave Silverman justified the Fourth of July campaign by saying, "The purpose of the banners is to highlight the fact that atheists are everywhere, in every parade, on every beach, and in every state, city, and town...Atheism is alive and growing in the US " So is this approach by atheists.org - the right way to convince Americans to ditch organized religion? Or are they just as guilty of proselytizing as any other organized religion?

Thom Hartmann's crazy alert.

Joining Thom to talk about this issue is Matthew Vadum, authour, Subversion, Inc. Another year - another devastating oil spill in America. Last week - a pipeline belonging to ExxonMobil underneath the Yellowstone River ruptured, spewing tons of crude into the notable waterway. At first - the company downplayed the area of contamination - but after re-examining the spill over the weekend - now it appears that over 42000 gallons of oil has coated more than 10 miles of the Yellowstone River - choking wildlife and slicking riverbanks. That now marks two national treasures blackened by crude in the last two years - so how many more until we get the message and kick big oil out of our nation's energy portfolio? Or at the very least - how many more oil accidents will it take for us to realize the oil industry can't control itself - and it's time to nationalize it to prevent further ecological - and economic - damage to our nation?

Joining Thom is Bruce Fein, Constitutional Attorney. Death row in Illinois is closed for business. A new state law abolishing the death penalty took effect last week - saving 15 inmates from execution. Since 2000 - there's been a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois after then-Governor George Ryan called the system, "haunted by the demon of error" because of how many death row inmates' convictions were overturned. Illinois is now the fourth state to kill the death penalty in the last two years - however 34 states around the nation still use it and the United States ranked fifth in the world in 2009 in the number of people we put to death - right behind China, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia...good company, huh? But while Illinois stops killing people - Texas Governor Rick Perry loves it. Despite concerns from foreign diplomats, judges, the United Nations, President Obama - and even George W. Bush - Governor Perry is pushing full steam ahead with the execution of Humberto Leal Garcia - a Mexican national who was convicted in 1994 of rape and murder. The Obama administration is warning Texas that Garcia's execution will do "irreparable harm" to the nation and break international laws because Garcia was not given a right under the Geneva Convention to contact the Mexican consulate when he was arrested. So isn't the death penalty causing more problems than it's solving in America today? Shouldn't other states take Illinois' lead - and ditch death?

Emmet Sullivan, Rick Perry and Rupert Murdoch.