This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio:

Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern

Former political advisor to Richard Nixon, and now an economic populist, Kevin Philips will join us to talk about how corporate America’s greed has helped pushed this country into a recession.

Congressman and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chris Van Hollen will be here to talk about the Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act, which will close corporate tax loopholes.

By Mike Papantonio

Last year, 13 people were killed in Minneapolis when a bridge collapsed because our government couldn’t spend the money on critical repairs. Two years before, New Orleans was destroyed and 1,500 people were killed because there was so little money to go around to fix the levees.

The system of maintaining America’s infrastructure in the last eight years has been referred to as “patch and pray.” The no-regulation, no-tax approach to government was unleashed on all of us in 2000. It was as if a giant clown car pulled up to a curb somewhere in our nation’s capital and unloaded a gaggle of politicos who had no real understanding about why tax revenues matter. They called themselves fiscal conservatives.

America’s infrastructure is crumbling because no-tax demagogues have some Americans believing that they can have quality bridges, roads, police and fire departments, schools, libraries and national parks without ever making a sacrifice. The math is not complicated. We can’t maintain bridges and roads while we have a debt of $9 trillion.

When we’re spending $12 billion a month on a desert war that 60 percent of Americans want behind us, it’s pretty tough to build new airports, or replace decrepit, leaking pipes that deliver our nation’s drinking water.

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio:

Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern

Arianna Huffington will be joining us to talk about how Republican policies have not only failed, but they’ve actually made America a more dangerous place.

Anti-war activist turned Congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan will be here to talk about how the failures of the Democratic Party led her to challenge Nancy Pelosi for her seat.

Author Alec Foege will be joining us to tell us how the republicans created an unstoppable media monopoly with Clear Channel Communications.

The great thing about Jeremiah Wright is that he is incredibly self destructive he has an Ann Coulter quality about him where you expect his head to start spinning around on his neck and smoke to start blowing out his ears.

The more he talks, the goofier he looks. Obama is now playing off that ego maniacal flaw with Wright, going as far as almost describing Wright as a cheap hustler looking for a bigger spotlight. The more Wright talks, the angrier and more energized Obama and his political base become.

Obama is getting great advice – Continue to treat Hillary like a desperate challenger who thinks she deserves to be President. Now he needs to focus his campaign against McCain, who is all over the world about the political image he wants to portray - Day one he’s on the stump looking like a geriatric mixture of Rambo and Dr. Strangelove. Day two he is in New Orleans talking like a Franciscan monk out to save the poor. Day three he moves into his corporate lapdog mode and pledges $2 Trillion dollars in tax cuts to America’s wealthiest corporations.

The attacks on McCain are easy – That’s where Obama needs to focus.

Even while the Wright issue continues, Obama won the support of two more superdelegates, including Representative Ben Chandler of Kentucky, a very white, very conservative democrat.

By Mike Papantonio

Bush has the US $1 trillion in debt to China – our grandchildren will be paying off that debt because our misfit rich-kid president wanted to give 300 billion dollars worth of tax breaks to his republican country club crowd.  Every time the China Olympic question comes up, Obama and Clinton should be talking about that.

They should remind Americans that the real reason our Chinese lapdog president has to show up at the Olympic opening ceremonies is because he is terrified by the fact that China owns him and his GOP.

Today the GOP’s Chinese policy has the US buying everything China has to sell while China stifles our US exports with impossible Chinese tariffs.  The grand ole party has made us into China’s new trade hostage.  And there is nothing our MBA-trained president can do about it because Bush knows that all China has to do is threaten to sell all the US dollars they now hold and our Republican-created economy disaster would be thrown into an even worse tail spin.