CONTRACT WITH REPUBLICANS
In 1994, after 40 years in the wilderness, Republicans swept both houses of Congress, running on Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America,” in which the GOP promised to hold votes on 10 popular policies in the first 100 days. They won, fulfilled the contract and controlled the House for more than a decade.
More recently, the country gave the GOP the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014 and the presidency in 2016. But we’re not seeing any difference.
It’s time for the voters to issue a “Contract With Republicans.” Unless our elected representatives can complete these tasks, we’re out.
Whether these are accomplished by President Trump, a rhesus monkey, the Democrats, or the U.S. Pirate Party — it will make no difference to us. We just need somebody to fulfill this contract to get our vote.
Here are our first three contract terms.
› Build the wall
People said the chant, “Build the wall!” was mere shorthand for a whole slew of immigration policies, unified by the single idea of putting Americans’ interests if not “first,” then at least “above the interests of complete strangers to whom we owe absolutely nothing.”
“Build the wall” was said to entail: a Muslim ban, deporting illegals, ending unconstitutional sanctuary cities, ending Obama’s unconstitutional “executive amnesty” and a dead-stop to the refugee scam.
Yes, it means all that. But it also means: Build the wall. If this is done only for reasons of conservative ideology, in recognition of the fact the United States is entitled to protect its homeland, that’s fine.
But I note that if I were a progressive constantly virtue-signaling on transgenders and refugees, and occasionally pretending to care about African-Americans, the last thing I’d want to see is the continuing dump of low-wage workers on the country, undermining black fathers’ ability to earn a living, stay married and pass down savings to their children.
Moreover, in the future, we will once again have presidents with a taste for fascist executive orders, purporting to grant “amnesty” to illegal aliens. We will continue to have legislators pushing cheap labor in return for campaign donations. They’ll be able to undo every part of Trump’s America First agenda on immigration, just as Obama undid our victory in Iraq.
A wall is the only part of Trump’s immigration reforms that will not be instantly reversed by the next Barack Obama or George Bush. A wall is forever.
› Supreme Court
Republicans need to stop having their victories written in wet sand. During the campaign, Trump vowed to impose a Muslim ban if elected, won the election, issued a highly modified, temporary travel restriction from a handful of majority Muslim countries, and … a handful of carefully selected federal court judges announced that, during Trump’s administration, they would implement immigration policy.
That’s why Trump must appoint, and the Senate confirm, brilliant conservative judges, preferably in their 30s and with good EKGs, so they can issue opinions well into their 90s.
› Stop wasting money, lives on pointless wars
The left is way ahead of us on this, already hard at work turning the world’s greatest military into taxpayer-funded adventures in sexual orientation politics.
Every recent war has been counterproductive at best. At worst, they have been meat-grinders for our young men.
If we’re ever attacked, we should be prepared to unload our full arsenal. But it’s not our job to create functioning democracies in the world’s primitive, rape-based societies.
Apart from an attack on U.S. soil by a foreign country, we are going to go to work, celebrate the Fourth of July, and never bother learning the difference in Sunni and Shia Arabs. Once a decade, when we fleetingly remember Yemen or Saudi Arabia, we will hope they’re doing well, then get back to our lives.
Andrews McMeel Syndication