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Watercooler 3/1 Open Thread: The Contract Assessed, March 2017 Edition

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 13:59

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

The Contract Assessed, March 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.

Item:	Accomplished/Fail
:
Constitutional Amendment: Term Limits	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
:
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	Undetermined
Trade Rep To Prosecute All Foreign Trade Abuses	Undetermined
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
Cancel Payments To U.N. For Climate Change	Undetermined
:
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
:
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	Looking Bleak
:
Affordable Child And Elder Care	Undetermined
:
Build The Wall	Undetermined
:
(Fed dollars for local law enforcement)	Undetermined
:
Rebuild The Military	Undetermined
:
Clean Up Corruption In Washington DC	Undetermined
:
From Debate: Prosecute Hillary	UNLIKELY
:
Outside Statement: Select SCOTUS Nominee From This List	DONE – Gorsuch
:

So, on the Extended Scoreboard, we have nine outright DONE, plus four more big jobs started. Trump has this month and next before the Hundred Days are over, and while many if not most of these are outside his control and in the hands of Swamp Turtle McConnell and Lyin’ Ryan, he still needs to get some more points on the board SOON. More to the point, Congress needs a red-hot fireplace-poker suppository prodding them to work unless they want a Democrat blowout in 2018… Seriously, a MONTH in and only THREE bills, two of which are largely symbolic, delivered to the Resolute Desk? And most of their activity seems to be only Pro Forma sessions the past week? YGBFSM! (I mean, the holiday is President’s DAY, not President’s WEEK…)

Special thanks to Watercooler teammate Joliphant for coding the table.

This Week In History

Sunday, 2/26: Grand Canyon and Grand Teton Nat’l. Parks est’d., 1919 and 1929; Amtrak Superliner double-decker railcars enter service, 1979; WTC bombing, 1993
Monday, 2/27: British House of Commons votes to quit fighting in America, 1782; Andersonville POW camp opens, 1864; Presidential two-term limit ratified, 1951
Tuesday, 2/28: B&O RR incorporated, 1827; USS Houston lost with all hands in Battle of Sunda Strait, 1942; M*A*S*H finale, 1983
Wednesday, 3/1: Salem Witch Trials begin, 1692; Articles of Confederation adopted, 1781; Hoover Dam completed, 1936
Thursday, 3/2: Slave imports banned, 1807; Texas declares independence, 1836; Gallagher’s B-50 Superfortress “Lucky Lady II” completes first nonstop round-the-world flight, 1949
Friday, 3/3: Battle of Nassau begins with first USMC amphibious landing, 1776; Key’s Star-Spangled Banner adopted as Nat’l. Anthem, 1931; recapture of Manila, 1945
Saturday, 3/4: 1st US Congress convenes, 1789; Chicago incorporated, 1837; Battle of the Bismarck Sea ends, 1943

Today’s Birthdays: Double Eagle gold-coin sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848; musician Glenn Miller, 1904; attorney Robert Bork, 1927; actor George Eads, 1967

Holidays Around the World: It’s National Pig Day here. Iceland celebrates Beer Day, it’s World Civil Defence Day, and Poland, Paraguay and the Marshall Islands all have holidays by various names remembering those who fell in their service. Also, not a holiday, but I’d like to request that the readers each take a moment to remember the late Andrew Breitbart, taken from us today in 2012. Go have some bacon and hoist a brew in honor of Journalism’s Last Hurrah…

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 an EAA Witness Pavona .380 pistol package: http://americanhandgunner.com/giveaway/
*Guns Magazine, for a Franklin Armory M4, Navy Arms 1892 Coyote Killer lever-action rifle, Magnum Research BFR .30-30 revolver or EAA Witness Pavona .380 pistol: http://gunsmagazine.com/giveaway/
Davidson’s Gallery of Guns, for a SIG-Sauer P220 Hunter 10mm pistol or SIGM400 Swat tactical rifle: https://ggg.galleryofguns.com/
GrabAGun, for a Smith & Wesson Performance Center M&P Shield 9mm pistol: http://grabagun.com/giveaway
*Primary Arms, for $3000 of AR15 upgrade parts: https://wn.nr/njftDY

*Note: FMG Publishing giveaways require you to provide an FFL dealer’s info at entry. Aero Precision and Primary Arms giveaways give me one entry each per person who uses my referral link.

Quote of the Day

Further illustrating what’s wrong with the other side of the aisle, and some on our own:

I have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s wrong with me because I get angry.–Maxine Waters

Just clearly illustrates the derangement and entitled attitude of Team Blue… As always, the Watercooler is an Open Thread. Now that I’ve had my turn to Sound Off, the floor is all y’all’s to drop whatever tasty news, gossip and observations you feel like offering.

#NoQuarter #TheParty’sOver