Posted on 10/16/2013 9:12:44 AM PDT by neverdem
Jackson isn't the model for anything conservatives do. The Republicans under Lincoln are closer, a party people fed up with slavery and government support of slavery and disgusted with a Whig Party (RINOS) who simply would not deal with the major issue of the day.
WSJ editors are in the tank for corporate interests which makes WSJ an Allie of Obama.
Angry? Why would we be angry? Obama - and liberals before him - have lowered our culture into the sewer and our economy into the gutter. They have defiled America and insulted our heritage. Currently they are punishing WWII veterans and have stated for the record they could not care less about funding cancer care for children during this shutdown.
Angry? Us?
No, not really. Not yet. But a time is coming when Obama will send armed forces for us. NSA goons, IRS agents, even UN troops. A time is coming when our private retirement funds will be confiscated - our homes will be entered and our weapons collected. A time of planned chaos and Martial Law.
Then we will be angry. BITS, you Obastards. And it will be theirs.
“It’s hard to see how the U.S. can govern itself unless corporate America pushes the Republican establishment to fight back against the tea partyor switches sides.”
This is total BS. It is hard to see how the U.S. survives more than 10-20 years if the Tea Party does not succeed in bringing the country back to its conservative roots.
Exactly! We do far better to hold this course than to separate ourselves and form a new Party. Besides, why waist all the progress we have done since 2010 within the Party? Of course, Cruz and Lee have been the leaders in all the movement within the Repub Party; and they deserve praise!
Don’t forget about Jackson and the trail of tears. Didn’t he outright ignore the supreme court?
Andrew Jackson despised government debt with a bloody passion, along with bloated tax money sucking banks.
Remind your liberal friends about this when they are headed to the annual Democrap Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinners.
Recommended read about Jackson: “American Lion” by Meacham.
Agreed!
I too do not like the comparison of Jackson to the Tea Party; but then, look who's making the comparison.
Andrew Jackson was a pro-slavery, pro-genocide DEMOCRAT — just like the Democrats of today.
I consider myself more “Monroean” than “Jacksonian”
Jackson’s handling of the Toledo strip dispute shows what a pure partisan democrat machine type of politician Jackson really was.
I’ll give Ohio the strip if Ohio gives the democrats the election.
A true account, but pretty cold and unhelpful, certainly. The WSJ could have been of some support and they were not.
The Journal has been known to make fine cases of some of our grievances, but when the TP became a force, the Journal went dark.
Besides the "apostacy's of the Bush administration and the outrages of the Obama administration", besides the "existential threat of Obamacare", besides the demographic threat of amnesty, the country is hurtling toward a fiscal meltdown. The Tea Party, as an expression of the conservative movement, believes viscerally that spending is out of control, that the debt is at the cusp of being irretrievable, that the unfunded liabilities probably can never be paid, and, at a time when all patriots in decency would work to curb spending and save ourselves, the existing administration actually wants to precipitate a crisis.
The failure to defund Obamacare is but a metaphor for the failure to bring the nation's fiscal house in order, a metaphor for the failure to apply the brakes before we plunge over the precipice. All of the other considerations, while important, are but symptoms of a government which is verging on autocracy and which has no intention of saving the system. In fact, this administration is committed ideologically to the destruction of the system as it was constitutionally created.
Whether one quotes the adage, never let a crisis go to waste, whether one points to Cloward and Piven, whether one cites the plotting's of Saul Alinsky, one must conclude from any of these sources that a crackup is exactly what the elites of the left want.
Therefore, it does not matter whether big business is for or against the tactics employed by The Tea Party. Moderates, big business, most of the unenlightened Democrat party constituency also known as low information voters, are all fixating on irrelevancies. The endgame is there to be seen.
The author has not seen it.
I agree. If you read Charles Beard's, An Economic Interpretation of the Consitution, you'll discover that the Constitution has two primary areas of concern: 1) policing of property rights (e.g., a legal system), and 2) the provision of social overhead capital (e.g., those things deem socially necessary but without a private market, like a standing military). Now, compare that with what you see today and you find a common thread: social serves are expanded to keep the politicians in office. And to me, the GOP no longer fights this trend and is lock-step with the liberals. I say: Throw them all out and start over.
This fight is about corruption. Obama, the socialists in both chambers of the Congress and the treacherous “so-called” Republicans.
The Tea Party Republicans stood strong against them. I am proud of them. Have no doubt...the pressure was intense.
Ted Cruz and the Tea Party caucus in the House were courageous. Watch the vote....the traitors in our Govt. have been exposed.
This is a dark day in our history, we are living through dark days for our Country. They can raise the debt limit into infinity....until one day there will be no options.
Pray for the USA.
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