Old Hickory upset with Bush's Social Security phaseout plan

Josh Marshall has been tracking Democrats who are considering supporting Bush's proposal to phase out Social Security.  Marshall calls them the Fainthearted Faction.  Today, he invoked Old Hickory's wrath on a Tennessee Congressional Representative who might become part of the Faction.

He also links to this brief 2001 paper by Adam Reno on Old Hickory:

Known simply as "the Hero" to many, [Andrew] Jackson was the sort of commoner that later Presidential candidates would pretend to be.

He was crass, unsophisticated, rude, and in many ways ignorant, yet he garnered the greater part of the American popular vote in three consecutive elections. To the consternation of his critics, the American people adored Jackson, romanticized him. He was more than a candidate for the people; he was one of the people. "Better than Washington or Jefferson," [Dixon] Wecter writes [in 1831] "this battered old soldier-with his blazing blue eyes, sunken cheeks, and shock of white mane, his courage and his stubbornness, his rages and his tenderness-was the essence of Americanism. He was the kind of man whom the majority of Americans in his day imagined themselves to be."  ...

Known as "Old Hickory," because of his robustness, Jackson translated this appellation into physical paraphernalia. Hickory gave the Democrats something tangible from which they could create accouterments. Canes, hats, brooms and buttons all surfaced bearing Jackson’s image or the image of a hickory tree. The election of 1824 permanently established Old Hickory as a myth-like outsider, diametrically opposed to bureaucracy with a life-long adversarial relationship to the federal government and the upper classes in power. At least, that was the image that he fed to the public. ...

All these details, however, are unimportant. Americans do not worship men, but rather ideals of how men should be. We create men like Jackson as much as they create themselves. Americans like to think of their country, particularly in the West, as a place of great industry. In Jackson, voters saw representation of striving, the possibility of anyone accomplishing anything. The American dream. As Wecter describes, "the spirit of the masses had captured Jackson and made him its mouthpiece". Andrew Jackson translated perfectly into a symbol, from his history to his nickname, and, in many ways, candidates for office in American [sic] have been trying to recreate his identity with the American public ever since. [my emphasis]

None of them can quite do it, of course.  Lincoln and FDR came close.