So with the scheduling dust-up for the President's job speech resolved - and Speaker John Boehner getting what he wants: the President having to compete with the Saints and the Packers for the nation's attention next Thursday - maybe NOW we can actually focus on a plan to create jobs. Thom Hartmann asks Andrew Langer, Institute for Liberty, how will enacting the same policies of deregulation and massive tax breaks for the rich that George W. Bush and Herbert Hoover championed create jobs this time around?

Thom rants about how the country's top 25 companies paid their CEO's more than federal income taxes. Later in the show in the "Lone Liberal" rumble, he debates John Boehner's request to President Obama to push back his jobs speech.

Why is Senator Shuck Grassley lying to his constituents about the GOP's plan to privatize Social Security? In my Daily Take - I'll tell you about the drastic measures Republicans are resorting to to keep their constituents in the dark about their radical agenda.

Karen Higgins, National Nurses United join Thom Hartmann. The people who work on the frontline of our nation's hospitals are joining in the fight against Congress and their assault on the middle class!

Matt Wood, FreePress.net joins Thom Hartmann. Justice is served for AT&T and T- Moblie customers! A pending merger which would have skyrocketed millions of cell phone bills is shot down by the Department of Justice! So will this big win for consumers stand - or will AT&T keep up the fight to take over the wireless market?

Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard & Brian Darling, Human Events join Thom. The President's highly anticipated jobs plan for America, Cheney's book tour and the economy will be discussed in tonight's Lone Liberal rumble.

Yesterday - the website Gawker broke the news that Fox so-called News talking head Bill O'Reilly allegedly tried to pay off the Nassau County Police Department with a charitable contribution in exchange for an investigation into whether or not his wife was having an affair with one of the Department's police officers. As the Gawker article reads: "Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O'Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department's internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man's lady."

What do General Electric - EBay - Coca Cola - Verizon - Boeing - Prudential - and Capital One all have in common? They all paid their CEOs more than they paid in US taxes last year. According to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies - 25 of the biggest, multi-billion dollar corporations - cut huge checks to their chief executives while dodging Uncle Sam and not paying their fair share in federal taxes last year.

Lucy Kafanov fills in for Thom Hartmann and discusses how Augusts' death toll of American troops is the highest in the war's nearly decade long history. Follow Lucy on Twitter at twitter.com

Democratic Strategist, Erikka Knuti fills in for Thom Hartmann. In the first half hour she talks with co-founder of Bullfight Strategies, Eric Burns about President Obama's plummeting approval rating and his accomplishments the Republicans refuse to acknowledge. Later in the show, ThinkProgress.org Editor-In-Chief, Faiz Shakir talks about the disturbing "Islamaphobia" trend in America.

We need to go after all the free loaders living in America. You know those guys addicted to welfare that's bankrupting our nation. Those same guys that don't pay their fair share in taxes. Those guys who just dirty up the place and expect the people around them to clean it up. It's time to tell them that the free ride is over! So are you listening GE, Exxon Mobile, Citigroup?? Because I'm talking to you! And I'm talking to you as a "person" - because after all according to Mitt Romney - that's what you are.

Brian Darling, Human Events & Erikka Knuti, Democratic Strategist & Heather Cirmo, Conservative Strategist join Thom.

For tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" - Thom is joined by author, environmentalist, and activist Bill Mckibben. In 1988, he wrote "The End of Nature" - the heir to Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" - and since then has gone on to write more than a dozen noteable books about the environment and our human impact on it. He is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. In 2010, the Boston Globe called him "the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist." And recently he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest book - "Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet" - is a guide to living on our fundamentally altered planet.

For tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" - Thom is joined by author, environmentalist, and activist Bill Mckibben. In 1988, he wrote "The End of Nature" - the heir to Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" - and since then has gone on to write more than a dozen noteable books about the environment and our human impact on it. He is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. In 2010, the Boston Globe called him "the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist." And recently he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest book - "Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet" - is a guide to living on our fundamentally altered planet.

Renowned environmentalist and author, Bill McKibben joins Thom for "Conversations with Great Minds". They discuss the latest developments in climate change, including the recent east coast earthquake and the threat level of Hurricane Irene. Later in the show, Thom debates the week's biggest topics in the weekly rumble.