[Tell It Right]

Modern day Dims are trying to blame Republicans for the history of Andrew Jackson -- who pretty much started the Dim party and did the Trail of Tears astrocity.

One thing we ought to give Jackson credit for, tough, is he did pay off the national debt (probably not quite completely, but enough to deserve an atta-boy).

[AnAmericanMother]

Actually, Martin van Buren organized the Trail of Tears, by ordering the forcible removal of Cherokee who had not complied with the Treaty of Echota (negotiated during the Jackson presidency).

Van Buren the effete New Yorker has much less of a justification or excuse for dumping the Cherokee than a man who suffered personally on the frontier.