Watercooler 5/3: Open Thread - The Contract Reassessed, May '17 Edition

#NotInMYNameWelcome back to another installment of the Watercooler, RedState’s daily Open Thread! Today, we’ve got…

The Contract Assessed, April 2017 Edition

Another month passed, another evaluation of the Contract With The American Voter. Thanks to fellow WC’er Joliphant for the table coding and list. (Yes, I’ve been playing with the crayons this month. 🙂 )

Item:

Accomplished/Fail

Six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington

4/6, 1 started

Constitutional Amendment: Term Limits (requires Congress and State action or States-called Article V Convention)

Undetermined

Hiring Freeze On Federal Employees

DONE – Pres. Memo 82 FR 8493

Eliminate 2 Regulations For Every New 1

DONE – Exec. Order 13771

5 Year ban on revolving door

DONE – EO 13770

Lifetime Ban On Foreign Lobbying

DONE – EO 13770

Remove Foreign Money From Elections

STARTED – Foreign Lobbying Restrictions of EO 13770

Seven actions to protect American workers

1/7, 4 started

Announce intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205

DONE? Possible bluff

Announce withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership

DONE – PM 82 FR 8497.

Label China A Currency Manipulator

Looking Unlikely

Trade Rep To Prosecute All Foreign Trade Abuses

STARTED – EO’s 13785, 13786 and unnumbered 4/29

Lift Restrictions On American Energy Reserves

STARTED – EO 13766 and PM’s 82 FR 8659, 8661 and 8663

Remove Regulations On Energy Infrastructure

STARTED – PM’s 82 FR 8659, 8661 and 8663; EO 13783 and unnumbered 4/28 EO

Cancel Payments To U.N. For Climate Change

STARTED?

Five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law

3/5, 2 started

Cancel Obama’s Unconstitutional Exec Orders

STARTED – PM’s 82 FR 8346 and 8667; EO 13791

Select Constitutionalist To Replace Scalia

DONE – Gorsuch

Cancel All Federal Funding For Sanctuary Cities

DONE – EO 13768

Begin Deporting Two Million + Illegal Immigrants

DONE – EO 13768

Suspend Immigration From Terror Regions

STARTED – EO 13769 and replacements

Legislative Agenda

0/10 – 1 started, 1 FAIL

Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification

Undetermined

End Offshoring By Tariffs

Undetermined

Infrastructure: Trillion$ In Spending Over 10 years

Undetermined

School Choice And Education Act

Undetermined

Repeal Obamacare

CONTRACT BREACHED – “Swampcare”

Affordable Child And Elder Care

Undetermined

Build The Wall

Undetermined

(Fed dollars for local law enforcement)

Undetermined

Rebuild The Military

STARTED – Budget Request

Clean Up Corruption In Washington DC

Undetermined

Other Campaign Promises/Planks

1/2

From Debate: Prosecute Hillary

UNLIKELY

Outside Statement: Select SCOTUS Nominee From This List

DONE – Gorsuch

Still refusing to take the most important Swamp Drain move there is. Mr. President, those Obama-appointee Schedule C holdovers are the most dangerous enemies you have–until you #FireThemALL!, they will continue to leak, sabotage and generally undercut the authority of the Administration and every policy initiative it attempts. These people have nothing but contempt for any authority or rule of law except their own, and need to be summarily cashiered and sent out to flip burgers ASAP. I’m doing a favor by not downgrading this to Unlikely this month, but some people need to be fired, and SOON.

This Month’s Score: Counting each Start as +1/2 and each Unlikely as -1/2…

DONE	Started	Undetermined	Unlikely	FAIL/ BREACH
10	8	10	2	1

10 + 8*1/2 + 0 – 2*1/2 – 1 = 12 out of 30 points possible. One step forward, half a step back…

Special thanks to Watercooler teammate Joliphant for coding the table.

This Week In History

Sunday, 4/30: Washington takes Oath of Office as POTUS, 1789; Louisiana purchase, 1803, and statehood, 1812; Hawaii Territory est’d., 1900
Monday, 5/1: Battle of Crooked Billet, 1778; Empire State Bldg. dedicated, 1931; Amtrak takes the throttles on passenger rail, 1971
Tuesday, 5/2: King James Bible first published, 1611; Stonewall Jackson fatally wounded, 1863; aircraft carrier Card sunk in Saigon harbor, 1964
Wednesday, 5/3: Washington DC incorporated as city, 1802; Senate hearings on MacArthur dismissal, 1951; first e-mail spam, 1978
Thursday, 5/4: Rhode Island first colony to break with King George, 1776; Panama Canal groundbreaking, 1904; Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942
Friday, 5/5: Battle of the Wilderness, 1864; Tchaikovsky opens Carnegie Hall, 1891; Alan Shepard first American in space, 1961
Saturday, 5/6:

Today’s Birthdays: Political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469; singer-actors Bing Crosby, 1903 and Frankie Valli, 1934; sportscaster Greg Gumbel, 1946

Holidays Around the World: It’s World Press Freedom Day. Japan and Poland both observe their Constitution Days.

This Week In History is compiled with assistance from History.com and Wikipedia. Something interesting not listed here? Please share in the Comments section–this is an Audience Participation Encouraged featurette.

Gratuitous Gun Giveaways

*American Handgunner magazine, for a Carolina Arms TC-45 1911-type .45 or EAA Witness Pavona .380 pistol package: http://americanhandgunner.com/giveaway/
*Guns Magazine, for a Glock 41 Gen 4 pistol package or SRM Arms 1216 shotgun: http://gunsmagazine.com/giveaway/
Davidson’s Gallery of Guns, for an OD Green .380 Glock 42 or a Midnight Bronze 9mm Gen 4 Glock 19: https://ggg.galleryofguns.com/
GrabAGun, for a Kimber Micro 9 two-tone 9mm 1911-type pistol: http://grabagun.com/giveaway

*Note: FMG Publishing giveaways require you to provide an FFL dealer’s info at entry.

Quote of the Day

I actually managed to figure this one out: you’ve got to find a woman who loves God more than she loves you — albeit just barely.–the late Charles D. Petrie

As always, the Watercooler is an Open Thread. I’m pretty sure I’ve missed the various appointees on the Scoreboard, so I’d appreciate watever takes on that y’all may have in Comments. The floor is yours, so have fun!

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