[StoneWall Brigade]

John C. Calhoun was an amazing statesmen the President isn’t even good enough to lick his shoes.

[Slings and Arrows]

What will be the Republican response?

[JParris]

No. John C. was an advocate for states rights. Obummer is an advocate of himself......

[Regulator]

Whats it called when you bring a foreign and hostile group into the country, with the intent of getting rid of the native population?

Hint: starts with a capitol T.

[Bigg Red]

Perfect summation.

[Prospero]

I'm not comfortable with the comparison with John C. Calhoun, though I understand it. Madison's late-in-life responses to the Nullification Crisis precursor to our Civil War present among the best arguments against nullification. And, as a descendant of southerners who respects the Peace of Appomattox, perhaps the best argument I've read against southern nationalism, the best case for Union may be found in the autobiographical work of John Quincy Adams.

Calhoun could hardly be fairly labeled a proponent of lawlessness, or as an enemy of the federal Constitution. Even his opponents in Washington wouldn't have gone so far. What we have with this present Executive, on the other hand, is no Lincoln. He is, in fact, an enemy of American nationalism, and his enemy is already a weakened, if not a completely paper tiger by this point.

Among the most profound weaknesses of our Union, perhaps since the beginning of the 20th century - though the weakness was already weaved into our "composite republic," as Madison himself described it - is this short-term focus. Meant as another check against excesses, the workaround has been the creation of a civil service curia, Washington itself, now the victim of the tendency of all institutions to suppliant reason-for-being functions with self-continuity functions, until the latter become he former.

Personally, though I've heard it mentioned thus far from only one corner, I'm of a mind to push Article V. The clear and present danger calls for a Constitutional Convention. A credible threat alone could, well, actually I'm quite sure it would, block the excesses of the Executive and perhaps - in the long run - achieve needed adjustments to our course, preserve the Constitution and the Union, perhaps even the culture, long after this Executive is past tense.

[Mike Darancette]

More like Algonquin J. Calhoun.