In the wake of Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, I have been watching the Democrat media – strictly for entertainment value.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down part of the McCain-Feingold law.  Now, thanks to the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, corporations can spend money on political purposes.  Keith Olbermann was outraged, OUTRAGED that big corporations would get involved in politics.  I forced myself to listen closely, waiting for him to disclose something very relevant.  Olbermann never did mention the fact that the network he (and Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz) work for, MSNBC, belongs to a big corporation, General Electric.

In truth, Keith Olbermann is a corporate spokesman for General Electric.  He has no problem with his big corporation owning a network that spews Democrat talking points 24/7.  But, if another corporation is able to buy a 30-second political commercial on MSNBC or another network, Olbermann says that would endanger democracy.

Olbermann even compared Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to Dred Scott v. Sanford.  He also failed to disclose the fact that the author of that infamous decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney, was a Democrat.  In fact, all seven Supreme Court justices who voted for Dred Scott were Democrats.

In the interest of full disclosure, let’s remember that Ronald Reagan got his start in politics as a spokesman for General Electric.

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the nation, showing office-holders and candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party.  Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP, cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  He is also the author of the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar.  His Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  See http://grandoldpartisan.com and www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

Republicans welcome a comparison of the history of the GOP with that of the Democratic Party – the party of slavery and socialism, Big Government and the Ku Klux Klan. To quote Back to Basics for the Republican Party: “The more we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more the Democrats will worry about the future of theirs.”

The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.

Ronald Reagan

The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

Michael Zak wrote the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar. He also provided information from Back to Basics for the Republican Party and his Grand Old Partisan blog that became the Heroes and Accomplishments sections of the RNC website. Here, at Grand Old Partisan, for the benefit of Republicans nationwide, is the information in a useful format. And, this website will be updated often, with even more Republican heroes and heroics.

Tammany Hall, now a metaphor for Democrat corruption, began as a real place.  It was a building, in fact, the headquarters of the New York Democratic Party.  During the 19th century and early 20th centuries, Tammany Hall was the foremost center of power and financing in the Democratic Party nationwide.

The origins of Tammany Hall date back to the 1790s as a fraternal organization, The Society of St. Tammany.  No, there was never a real Saint Tammany.  Anyway, along came one of the archvillians of American history, Aaron Burr.  Senator Burr took over the society and made it a political organization, which evolved over time into a pillar of the Democratic Party.

In the late 19th century, Tammany Hall, aka the New York City Democratic Party, stole staggering amounts of taxpayer funds – billions of dollars in today’s money.

The head honcho of Tammany Hall was William “Boss” Tweed, a former Democrat congressman.  In addition to larceny, Boss Tweed’s Democrat gangsters also excelled in vote fraud.

Tammany Hall faded in the 1930s as it lost its reason for existence.  With the New Deal, why should the Democrat leadership have a stand-alone organization devoted to shifting money from the government to their own coffers when the federal government could do it for them?  It was at this point that the Democratic Party became the Party of Government.

Now, seven decades later, the Democrat leadership, indeed all Democrats in Congress who vote for the stimulus package and socialized medicine and all the payoffs of Obama’s agenda do so knowing full well they are shovelling billions of dollars from taxpayers to their own coffers.  They’re all Boss Tweed now.

By the way, Boss Tweed died in prison.

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the nation, showing office-holders and candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party.  Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  His Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel that envisioned a political tragedy akin to the Obama presidency.  It Can’t Happen Here is the story of Berzelius Windrip, a charming, charismatic demagogue who, in the midst of an economic crisis, is elected president by promising lots of free goodies for everyone.  Once in power, he neutralizes Congress, ruins the economy and cracks down on dissent.  He makes himself dictator, with assistance from a civilian national security force.

Berzelius Windrip… mmm, mmm, mmm!

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the nation, showing office-holders and candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party.  Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  His Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

Why are Barack Obama and other Democrat leaders so intent on passing a government takeover of healthcare now Now NOW?

They must know that costs will rise and the quality of care will fall, right?  They must know that Obamacare would destroy the economy, right?  Of course they do.  But, they also know that the federal government would tighten its grip on the nation.  They know that Obama’s czars and other appointees would be authorized to bypass Congress in enacting sweeping regulations on nearly every aspect of a person’s life.  And, they know that these new powers of the federal government would be concentrated in the hands of the Democratic Party and the President.

Here’s what else they know.  History affords many examples of regimes whose motto was “Never let a crisis go to waste.”  In 1933, having campaigned for “hope” and “change,” the National Socialist Worker’s Party forced through the German parliament a Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation. 

This new law enabled the German chancellor and his appointees to bypass parliament in imposing sweeping regulations on the people:

“In addition to the procedure prescribed by the constitution, laws of the Reich may also be enacted by the government of the Reich [i.e., the Cabinet].”

It was by this vote that the National Socialist Workers Power assumed absolute power and the Chancellor made history.

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the nation, showing office-holders and candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party.  Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  His Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

Has anyone heard from Colin Powell lately?  Since Barack Obama became president, there has been complete silence from Colin Powell about a man he described as having “great insight into the challenges we’re facing of a military and political and economic nature.”  When can we expect Powell to show the courage to admit his mistake, his blunder, his betrayal?

Just weeks before the 2008 presidential election, Powell went on television to attack John McCain and the Republican Party.  He then, in his wisdom, endorsed Barack Obama:

“I watched Mr. Obama during this seven-week period.  And he displayed a steadiness, an intellectual curiosity, a depth of knowledge and an approach to looking at problems like this and picking a vice president that, I think, is ready to be president on day one. And also, in not just jumping in and changing every day, but showing intellectual vigor.  I think that he has a definitive way of doing business that would serve us well.

Mr. Obama has given us a more inclusive, broader reach into the needs and aspirations of our people. He’s crossing lines–ethnic lines, racial lines, generational lines.  He’s thinking about all villages have values, all towns have values, not just small towns have values.

I come to the conclusion that because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities–and we have to take that into account–as well as his substance–he has both style and substance–he has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president.  I think he is a transformational figure.  He is a new generation coming into the world–onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I’ll be voting for Senator Barack Obama.

And I have watched him over the last two years as he has educated himself, as he has become very familiar with these issues.  He speaks authoritatively.  He speaks with great insight into the challenges we’re facing of a military and political and economic nature.  And he is surrounding himself, I’m confident, with people who’ll be able to give him the expertise that he, at the moment, does not have.  And so I have watched an individual who has intellectual vigor and who dives deeply into issues and approaches issues with a very, very steady hand.  And so I’m confident that he will be ready to take on these challenges on January 21st.”

Are you still confident, General Powell?  If not, the nation deserves an apology from you.  General Powell, Douglas MacArthur’s words from 1962 speak to you today: ”the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country.”

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the nation, showing office-holders and candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party.  Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  His Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

Nine years and one day ago, the U.S. Supreme Court squashed the Democrats’ attempt to steal the 2000 presidential election.  The vote-counting procedure prescribed by Florida law determined that George W. Bush had carried the state, but the Democrat-controlled Florida Supreme Court tossed out the state’s own election laws and made up new rules, in order to throw the election to Al Gore.  This Democrat scam embarrassed the nation before the world with a sorry spectacle of hanging chads and military absentee ballots tossed out and a recount only of selected Democrat-controlled counties.

In the decision Bush v. Gore, the Justices handed down two rulings.  By 7-2, the Justices ordered that the Florida Supreme Court had to obey Florida law.  Then, by 5-4, the Justices ruled that the Florida election result was final.

With his victory in Florida upheld, George W. Bush won the electoral college and became the 43rd President of the United States.

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the nation, showing office-holders and candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party.  Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP, cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  His Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) says that people who oppose socialized medicine are comparable to those opposed freeing the slaves.  Another outrageous lie from the Democrats!

Just as outrageous is that, by ignoring their party’s heritage, the Republican Party has allowed Democrats and their lefty media allies to mislead millions of Americans about the true history of the Grand Old Party.

Every Republican, and I mean every Republican, should know that it was the Republican Party that freed the slaves and that it was the Democrats who wanted to keep African-Americans in chains.  Democrats denounced President Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) for his Emancipation Proclamation, and congressional Democrats voted unanimously against the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery.  In fact, so long as the GOP appreciated its heritage, the Democrats were known as the ‘Slaveocrat Party.’

To quote Back to Basics for the Republican Party: “The more we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more the Democrats will worry about the future of theirs.”

See www.RepublicanBasics.com and the Grand Old Partisan blog for more information.