Today On The Ed Schultz Show

Sen. Kent Conrad, D-ND, joins the 1st hour of Today’s show to discuss the “Gang of 10” proposal on Energy.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-MI, joins the 1st hour of Today’s show to discuss the latest policy in Iraq including reconstructions efforts.

Rep. John Dingell, D-MI, joins the 3rd hour of Today’s show to discuss the debate in Congress over energy policy.

Today On The Thom Hartmann Show

Quote for the Day: When the government violates thepeople’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of thepeople, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. –Marquis de Lafayette

Hour One – Flashback: Seven yearsago today, Bush received ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.’ memo &Would you support your city having up to $1000 in fines for not recycling?

Hour Two – Terry Jeffrey www.cnsnews.com Topic Is the US headed for Bankrupcy?…through the lens of conservative &liberal.

Hour Three – Air America radio Host –Lionel www.lionelonline.com Topic: his new book “Everyone’s Crazy Except You and Me…and I’m Not So Sure About You”

This Morning On The Stephanie Miller Show

A group of GOP and Dem senators, dubbed “the gang of 10,” has put forth a compromise to break the stalemate on energy legislation. The plan calls for expanding drilling offshore, keeping the ban on drilling in ANWR, repealing a tax break for oil companies, and putting billions of dollars toward producing more alt-fuel vehicles.

Iraq is raking in more money from oil exports than it is spending, amassing a projected 4-year budget surplus of up to $80 billion, U.S. Auditors reported yesterday. Members of Congress are outraged, noting that D.C. is paying for reconstruction in Iraq.

President Bush, kicking off a 3-nation Asia visit, offered poverty-wracked North Korea hope today that it could share in South Korea’s economic prosperity, while warning that it first must take concrete steps to live up to a promise to end its nuclear weapons program.

Obama criticized McCain yesterday for taking a page out of “the Cheney playbook” on energy. Cheney, a former oilman, helped draft an energy policy that Obama asserted is biased in favor of tax breaks and favorable treatment of big oil.

As a part of silly season in the campaign, John McCain volunteered his wife for a topless beauty pageant to cheering crowds in Sturgis, SD yesterday, and Paris Hilton has issued a response to McCain’s commercial which featured her. She says, “that wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means that I’m running for president.”