This whole "campaign for president" thing is currently not going so well for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, so he's trying something new. He's going to make Bold Promises about Day One of the presidency it's looking less and less likely he'll have, a Day One on which he will undo everything President Obama ever did or thought about doing.
In case voters might otherwise miss the Boldness of these Promises, Walker is underscoring his status as a visionary Republican by kicking off the promising in a speech at Ronald Reagan's alma mater, Eureka College.
Walker will tell his audience in Illinois that the same day he takes the oath of office, Jan. 20, 2017, he would undo President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran and start dismantling Obama's national health care law.
"President Reagan once said that we needed to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. Since he left, the swamp has filled up again. We cannot expect those from Washington to fix Washington. Some people think you can fix Washington by putting new so-called experts in the same old places," Walker will say, according to prepared remarks released Monday. [...]
Moving forward from the Eureka speech, Walker will unveil a new "day one promise" every week — things like ending Obama's executive actions, an action he can take without the help of Congress.
Walker is currently seventh in
national Republican primary polling and third in
Iowa caucus polling, where he was expected to perform strongly as the governor of a neighboring state. But that will likely all change now that he's going to paint himself as a Man of Action making Bold Promises.