I cannot understand why the Republicans would want to run this video ad.

So they have figured out just what it is about Elizabeth Warren that makes us want her for our Senator so much.

You wouldn’t think they would want to let any more people know that haven’t already figured this out.

More evidence, if you needed it, that the Republicans are completely out of touch. They think there is still a market for their snake oil remedies.

It’s funny how the repeated mention of Socialism by modern day Republicans has finally made me want to read more about it. So far I have found that the Republican party of Abe Lincoln was founded on socialist ideas by avowed socialists.

I have just finished reading Chapter Two “A Broader Patriotism”: Thomas Paine and the Promise of Red Republicanism from the book The “S” Word: A short history of an American tradition… Socialism. I guess they don’t call them red states for nothing.

We in Massachusetts have tried “Bambi” aka Scott Brown. We are tired of the caught in the headlights look. Bring on the “Matriatch of Mayhem”.

In the article New TV ad rips Jean Quan: “Stop the police brutality” (VIDEO) on The San Francisco Chronicle web site, they show the video below:

I am expecting an email from MoveOn.org any moment now so I can sign a petition.

The Raw Story article Olbermann interviews roommate of Iraq veteran injured in Oakland provided the video below.

Notice in the video some description of the “violence” that “provoked” the police.

The Raw Story article Olbermann: Oakland mayor must fire police chief or resign provides a little background for the included video below and the transcript I quote below that..

“But if one night a group of peaceable protesters exercising the rights given to them in the Constitution — and not rights made up by the cops, for the cops, like lawful command and imminent threat — if they are attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets, and the mayor’s only comments are to commend the police chief for a ‘generally peaceful resolution to the situation’ and after that claim ‘democracy is messy’ after the unprovoked actions of those police horrify a nation, she is endorsing and assuming for herself the responsibility for whatever havoc the out of control police officers have wrought.”

The Raw Story article Maddow compares ‘Occupy Oakland’ to 1930s ‘Bonus Army’ protest provided this video from MSNBC.