Watercooler 7/6 Open Thread: Contract Assessment, July '17 Edition

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

The Contract Assessed, July 2017 Edition

Y’all know the deal here: ne month, new assessment of the Trump Campaign Contract. Let’s get to it.

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

Undetermined

Announce withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership

DONE – PM 82 FR 8497.

Label China A Currency Manipulator

UNLIKELY

Trade Rep To Prosecute All Foreign Trade Abuses

STARTED – Unnumbered 3/31 EO

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

Cancel Payments To U.N. For Climate Change

STARTED Announced in 6/1 speech

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

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

See Notes Below

(Fed dollars for local law enforcement)

Undetermined

Rebuild The Military

STARTED – Budget Request; HR244 $21 billion added to DOD

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

Granted, ObamaCare Repeal is not helped by Swamp Turtle McConnel’s desperate campaign to go back to Minority Leader, including trying to preserve the hated Individual Mandate. Lesson here: Never vote for a “man” who wears his balls under his chin rather than in his pants. “Build The Wall”… well, we don’t have major construction on a physical barrier BUT we still have huge drops in the numbers coming, as evidenced by the coyotes’ baying about loss of business recently mentioned on the Front Page. I’m inclined to give a half-point on this one, caring more about the Ends than the Means used to achieve it.

This Month’s Score: (9×1) 9 + (9×0.5) 4.5 – (2×0.5) 1 – (1×1) 1 = 11.5/30.

DONE	Started	Undetermined	Unlikely	FAIL/ BREACH
9	9	8	2	1

Special thanks to Watercooler teammate Joliphant for coding the table.

FIRE MISSION Request

As some may know, thanks to a Benedict Arnold “Republican” Oregon is now debating a “Minority Report” where LEO can basically grab a gun owner’s irons for any reason, including the mere buying of a gun, as long as someone makes an argument that they’re a risk–even if mental health professionals give a clean bill of health. And oh by the way, they scheduled a Committee vote with only an hour’s notice ON JULY 4… seriously, NO honest legislative body holds major votes on a holiday or with a notice measured in hours. Please drop the Oregon Legislature a mass-mail at this link and tell ’em why you’ll be taking your tourism dollars elsewhere if SB 719A passes…

This Week In History

Sunday, 7/2: Pres. Garfield shot, 1881; Civil Rights Act signed, 1964; millionth Corvette, 1992
Monday, 7/3: Fighting ends at Gettysburg, 1863; Back to the Future released, 1985
Tuesday, 7/4: Declaration of Independence, 1776; Fall of Vicksburg, 1863
Wednesday, 7/5: Start of three weeks of British raids on Upstate NY, 1813; Salvation Army founded, 1865; bikini debuts, 1946
Thursday, 7/6: Retreat from Ft. Ticonderoga, 1777; first dirigible trans-Atlantic crossing, 1919; Kalashnikov rifle enters full production, 1947
Friday, 7/7: Quasi War with France begins, 1798; sliced bread first sold, 1928; Elvis’s radio debut, 1954
Saturday, 7/8: Perry arrives in Japan, 1853; Skagway crimelord Soapy Smith killed, 1898; final Shuttle launch, 2011

Today’s Birthdays: Showman P. T. Barnum, 1810; soldier-statesman Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 1902; cartoonist Bill Watterson, 1958;

Holidays Around the World: It’s Constitution Day in Armenia; also, Independence Day in Algeria, Cape Verde and Venezuela.

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 Smith & Wesson Performance Center M&P45 Shield, Taurus Air-Lite .38 revolver or EAA Witness Pavona .380 pistol package: http://americanhandgunner.com/giveaway/
*Guns Magazine, for an Honor Guard HG9SC subcompact 9mm pistol or Mossberg 930 shotgun package: http://gunsmagazine.com/giveaway/
Davidson’s Gallery of Guns, for a Remington R51 or RP9 9mm pistol: https://ggg.galleryofguns.com/

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