By Kevin “Coach” Collins
After I realized the author of “Andrew Jackson: Tea Party President” (The American Spectator October 2011) Robert W. Merry was serious I was compelled to respond. He had to be straightened out about what the TEA party movement is actually about.
Mr. Merry’s piece about Jackson has “Ivory Tower elitist” all over it as it works overtime to spray perfume on a man who was certainly complicit in Aaron Burr’s treasonous plot to make the Louisiana territories his private kingdom. Jackson set the stage for never ending poor relations with South and Central America as well.
Merry starts with a straw man premise about TEA party patriots (not surprisingly the beltway minded Merry doesn’t seem to understand it is T.E.A. meaning TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY so it’s not really “Tea”). He thinks we are looking for “guidance” from a Republican president of the distant past but conveniently bypasses Ronald Reagan, the quintessential TEA patriot. Instead Merry offers us Andrew Jackson with an incoherent “sentence” about Jackson “slapping down the notion of American greatness conservatism with utter contempt….” Trust me it doesn’t get clearer.
Later the self-conscious Merry allows that Jackson was a Democrat but not like modern day Democrats – as if there actually is a difference. He repeats today’s liberal Democrat line about Thomas Jefferson being the founding father of the Democrat Party. He ignores the inconvenient truth that, more than anyone else, it was Aaron Burr the murderer of Alexander Hamilton and nearly convicted treason conspirator who started the whole scheme. Burr was one of the founders of infamous Tammany Hall from whence the Democrat Party was hatched.
Jackson’s connection to Burr’s conspiracy
In 1806 at Burr’s request Jackson put together a fully outfitted army in preparation for an assault on New Orleans to take all of the newly purchased Louisiana territories so Burr could become King of a newly formed country. He lined up support from the British who were ready to recognize His Highness after he pulled off his coup.
There are of course many more examples of Jackson’s dubious character but his decision to help the British steal the Falkland Islands from Argentina stands as a classic. Jackson completely cast aside the Monroe Doctrine. He idly sat by watching as a European power violated the Doctrine which was the word of America. With it we promised we would fight to see to it that no more European expansion would take place in the Western Hemisphere. Jackson sent the USS Lexington to destroy the Falkland settlements so they could be served up to the British without their firing a shot.
Like so many Democrat presidents since, Jackson’s actions made us look like untrustworthy liars. He was the original Ugly American.
Jackson’s Administration was Washington’s original crony/patronage government.
While he didn’t coin the phrase he ruled by the principle, “To the victor belongs the spoils.” Quickly upon taking office, Jackson replaced almost 10% of all government appointed office holders. His “patronage over competence” policy appalled America in his day.
Andrew Jackson would find no home in the TEA party I’m a member of or any I’ve seen.
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To read more about this issue use these links:
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/10/07/andrew-jackson-tea-party-presi/print
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/educ/hist/ahc_andy_jackson_treason.html
http://illuminatifordummies.blogspot.com/2010/08/aaron-burr-conspiracy.html
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1830to1839.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
This day in history October 10
1845: The United States Naval Academy opens with 50 midshipmen and seven professors.
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Hey Tater !
The website is available, but the article you mentioned suddenly cannot be found!
Can you give us a clearer idea of what we are looking for?
If it's gone viral, would Youtube have this?
Typical of his liberal breed, Merry is simply hoping to advance the leftist stereotype of Tea Party members as gun wielding, shoot-em-up lunatics ready at a moments notice to solve all problems with a rifle and a booming voice. Jackson has typified that stereotype in every Hollywood movie so his makes for a very convenient face to plaster on Tea Party types.
Math Teacher Arrested!
A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International
airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a
protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator. At a morning press
conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a
member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who
has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
‘Al-Gebra is a problem for us’, the Attorney General said. ‘They derive
solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search
of absolute values.’ They use secret code names like ‘X’ and ‘Y’ and refer
to themselves as ‘unknowns’, but we have determined that they belong to a
common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every
country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, ‘There are 3 sides
to every triangle’.
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, ‘If God had
wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us
more fingers and toes.’ White House aides told reporters they could not
recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President. It is
believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.
It's worth pointing out that the "ugly American" was actually the hero of the story. He's the one who displayed American values, and was despised by the cookie-pushers who ran the embassy.
Fine article Coach ! You certainly know the historic events far more clearly than does Merry.
I went to the American Spectator site to read the full article and was so appalled with what I read that I sent a "nasty-gram" to the editors and asked for a full apology by Merry to TEA Partiers for the obvious Democratic-sour-grapes thread which ran throughout Merry's entire piece.
If he insists upon lampooning the TEA Party he needs, at least, a fundamental knowledge of the movement he is trashing: otherwise the "spoof", like the Jackson piece, will fall flat, and He will be the only one with egg on his face.
HELLO,
This man Merry cites a President that was a mass murderer of part of my heritage, and for him to do so infuriates me as a person. He-(JACKSON)–Did not ever to my knowledge ever show any signs of being anything like the T.E.A. Party of today. What he showed signs of being like is a mass murderer. So figure this out–If an "IDIOT" like that can write an article, and say what he did. Then we can basically write anything we want to about this so-called President, and IT IS THE TRUTH. Is that how it works?? Jackson was a mass murderer of most of my heritage, and I am speaking about the Cherokee people of the South. He had specific orders from Wacko D.C. to make all Cherokees go to Okla. for re-locational purposes. For the ones that did not want to go, they were killed. There is not a decent accounting of how many people were actually killed by this bastard, and the whites at the time honored him by putting his likeness on a twenty dollar bill. How lovely this is. You are a mass murderer, and you can get away with it. JACKSON IS NOT LIKE ANY T.E.A. PARTY THAT I KNOW OF. NONE OF THE MEMBERS FROM ANY OF THESE GROUPS HAS COMMITTED MASS MURDER.