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. )

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…

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!

#NoQuarter #TheParty’sOver

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