Posted on 04/03/2012 10:16:32 AM PDT by Nachum
Video at link
(Excerpt) Read more at patdollard.com ...
“Andrew Jackson was devoted to the U. S. Constitution...”
...except for that pesky Florida thing (i.e. invading another country without congressional authorization).
Oh, and that Trail of Tears/2nd Seminole War thing that I heard about somewhere (i.e. waging war to enforce the “voluntary” relocation of indians).
But other than that....
Given the hate talk from our President..I think that SCOTUS needs Secret Service Protection. There are some real hot heads on the left that might be looking at giving this President the chance to pick another Judge real soon.
Napolitano got it wrong.
FDR threatened the same way and said he would add three liberal justices to make it 12 unless they voted for his side.
There was a switch by one Judge, hence the “Switch in Time Saved Nine”.
Andrew Jackson was of his time and could of stopped the Civil War before it started. He was humble and said it was not his place. Abraham L. was one the one that ended the Jackson USA and started the FDR USA. Privatization and personal determination was what Jackson brought to the USA. He only did what the nation needed at the time. Otherwise people would of killed all the native americans.
You are thinking of Andrew Johnson. Lincoln’s second VP and successor. Jackson served forty years earlier. And the most recent example of a president defying the USSC was FDR. He failed but was in office long enough to alter the court to his liking through attrition and replacement of justices. That all being said, Obama’s remarks are another indication that he sees himself as a Caesar. If he did not have the mob behind him, as did Julius, it would be laughable and pathetic.
I believe a “sheet anchor” is an emergency anchor. Like something to use when all else fails.
Of course, we are both too lazy to look it up.
I love the judge but he needs to look at the SCOTUS wars FDR had....
Think again....... Jackson was not impeached.
He was President, not head .....r
Same thing as a sea anchor, a device intended to keep a ship's bow into the wind during a storm. A "sheet anchor" is jury rigged using a sail.
“I think that SCOTUS needs Secret Service Protection.”
You may be right. It is wrong to wage a political campaign again the court. They are supposed to be revoved from the pressure.
Same with this family - no audio or video. Can stand listening to someone who is deliberately lying.
“Andrew Jackson was of his time...”
So it’s ok to breach the constutition because you are ‘of your time’?
Your Lincoln fixation is common enough around here, so maybe you can explain how President Jackson can be “of his time...”, but President Lincoln cannot?
After all, if the “He only did what the nation needed at the time.” is your rationality, why don’t you apply it to all presidents, instead of selectively like you do?
I’m not taking anything away from President Jackson, simply trying to be honest about his actions. Presidents are complex figures, after all. Often, our pre-conceived political notions run up against their pragmatic actions.
The Sheet Anchor
Here’s a term you don’t hear much anymore, but which has its keel laid firmly in 19th century seamanship. This is one of those seaman’s terms that grew to have a double meaning, one practical and the other symbolic.
The practical meaning of sheet anchor is a reference to the main anchor, the biggest and heaviest of the ground tackle available. This was the anchor of choice when the wind was blowing hard and the seas were heavy and the ship just had to be secure. Lowering the sheet anchor required nearly all the crew at the windlass, and demanded a heavy load of chain to be payed out. Setting this anchor was a big job, but worth the trouble to safely ride out a storm.
How interesting that the term should spring to mind when describing a booklet for young sea officers. These educated lads came on board with no practical knowledge of the workings of a sailing ship with all its complicated lines and halyards, sheets and blocks, knots and hitches, compass directions, rules of the road...it was all new to them, and they had to learn it all quickly.
So the ship owners came up with booklets that would give these ensigns a fast, practical understanding of how the ship works. Why sheet anchor? Probably they decided on that term because the booklet was an encyclopedia of reliable information which would keep the young officers from drifting. Whenever they needed help, they could pull out their sheet anchor.
Posted 11th November 2005 by seatalker
http://seatalk.blogspot.com/2005/11/sheet-anchor.html
Thanks! G.
.." the courts have the right to review what the Congress does and what the President does and if the court finds that behavior unconstitutional, they can.. void, they can invalidate ...what the Congress and the what the President does. ....That’s our system. ....That’s what preserves the Constitution against the tyranny of the majority..... No president has questioned this since Andrew Jackson!”
“That’s why we have a life tenured independent judiciary so that it cannot be cowed by politicians no matter how well intended they may be,” Napolitano said.
“Look, if this is invalidated, the President can say this was invalidated by the court not by me...... If this is upheld, the President can say look, even a court appointed by a Republican president upheld this.....
... but for him to question the power and ability and authority of the court to review it and to decide if it’s unconstitutional is incomprehensible."
(end quote from article linked)..." Judge Napolitano"
Bravo, bravo! That is a fine piece of learning.
Wow, thanks! My old boss never told me about all that!
Go to this thread I put up and at least the video of Napilitano just worked for me...the one of Obama ...they are saying is not there,,,,it was earlier...
Go to post #2...this link ...2nd image....which just worked for me.
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Thread:
Obama Asks ‘Unelected’ Supreme Court Not To Take Extraordinary Step Of Overturning Health Care Law
Looks like it is working again....
Thanks for the heads-up! It was worth watching.
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