Tom and Art on politics

Gen. Tony McPeak is at the Democratic convention. He is one of Barack Obama's military advisors and is former USAF Chief of Staff with a long and storied military career. Also Amanda Terkel, Editor of Think Progress.org also in Denver.

Tom and Art welcome liberaloasis.com Bill Scher,and who will be part of the Campaign for America's Future blogging team at the Democratic Convention. Also Washington Monthly's Tom Frank.

Author David Sirota and "The Hill" columnist Brent Budowsky will be Art and Tom's guests. We'll talk about Sirota's latest book "The Uprising: An Unothorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Searing Wall Street and Washington." Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander, then-chief deputy whip of the House

Former prosecutor and current author Vincent Bugliosi will talk about his sensational book "The Prosecution of George Bush For Murder" The Nation called it "a scathing indictment of the President and his Administration but also a blueprint for holding him criminally accountable." Also joining us is Bill Scher who runs www.liberalosis.com. He'll talk about this weekend's Netroots Nation convention.