Call Congress! No DACA Amnesty! Stop the Deal!

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Jun. 6th, 2018 URGENT ACTION Media outlets reporting that House Republicans are nearing a deal on DACA amnesty -- Call and insist that any deal reduces legal immigration by ending chain migration and mandates E-Verify Dear activist, We're just 24 hours away from a key meeting between House Republicans where GOP Leaders hope to announce a deal that would award an amnesty to at least 1 million illegal aliens. According to media reports, key negotiators are close to striking a deal. We need your urgent phone calls TODAY before tomorrow's meeting to Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy telling him that any deal on DACA must reduce legal immigration by ending chain migration and must require employers to use E-Verify. Leader McCarthy -- (855) 827-2356 Leader McCarthy is currently working on a plan to stave off a discharge petition started by pro-amnesty House Republicans that would force floor votes on several bad amnesty bills. The discharge petition needs just three more signatures to force the votes, and petition organizers say that they have the signatures. That's why we need your urgent phone calls TODAY to Leader McCarthy! Leader McCarthy -- (855) 827-2356 When you reach his leadership office, you can use the following talking points: I agree with the majority of American voters who support reducing legal immigration through ending chain migration and ending most future illegal immigration by requiring all employers to use E-Verify. Any deal on DACA must reduce legal immigration by ending chain migration and require all employers to use E-Verify! Thank you for your activism, CHRIS CHMIELENSKI

How We Can Impact the Immigration Debate in the US Senate

In 2013, after the underwhelming 2012 national election results, Republicans went along with the lie that they were losing national elections because of their bad stock with Latino voters. The race card fooled the RNC leadership, when they should have been paying attention to the dismal turnout of the working class vote, particularly the working class white vote which saw both Romney and Obama out of touch and uninterested in their decimated economic outlook.

The 2013 Obamacare of Immigration reform passed out of the United States with bipartisan support, but a strong contingent of US Senators rejected the legislation outright.

Here are the Republicans who voted for that 2013 travesty:

Alexander (R-TN)

Ayotte (R-NH)

Chiesa (R-NJ)

Collins (R-ME)

Corker (R-TN)

Flake (R-AZ)

Graham (R-SC)

Hatch (R-UT)

Heller (R-NV)

Kirk (R-IL)

Murkowski (R-AK)

Rubio (R-FL)

Now, what about the latest amnesty proposals from two weeks ago?

The McCain-Coons Bill:

Flake (R-AZ)

Gardner (R-CO)

Graham (R-SC)

Murkowski (R-AK)

The Schumer-Rounds-Collins travesty:

Alexander (R-TN)

Collins (R-ME)

Flake (R-AZ)

Gardner (R-CO)

Graham (R-SC)

Isakson (R-GA)

Murkowski (R-AK)

Rounds (R-SD)

The two above pieces of legislation were completely unacceptable to President Trump. Notice that many of the Republicans who had caved to public pressure in 2013 did not show up on this list.

Senator John Hoeven voted for the 2013 travesty, but not any of the bills presented in 2018. He is not located on either of the above lists. Neither is Marco Rubio, for that matter. Surprisingly, neither is Bob Corker, even though he has signaled not only massive opposition to President Trump, but also had announced that he will not be running for re-election.

It does not look as though he will be changing his mind on that front, either, even though there were rumors he was going to jump back in the race and run for re-election after all.

Notice all that Senator Dean Heller did not vote the above legislation either. Of course, the cynical reason is that he is in a battle for re-election this year, and cannot afford to offend his already enraged Republican base in Nevada.

What's the point of this post?

It is possible to push our US Senators in the right direction on key legislation. The immigration fight in the United States Senate is not doomed to fail. But we are cutting ourselves short if we don't hustle and make it abundantly clear to our representatives that we want enforcement, not amnesty.

Congressman Labrador Exposes Pro-Illegal Schemes of the United States Senate

Democrats and Republicans in the United States Senate wanted to put Big Business and La Raza ahead of the American People on the four immigration bills which came to a floor vote last week.

All of them failed, including Toomey's common sense ban on federal grants to sanctuary cities. Shameful.

Congressman Raul Labrador, who is running for Governor of Idaho, revealed the real wranglings behind the scenes on the different immigration bills which got a floor vote, especially the abortive Schumer-Rounds-Collins compromise, which was anything but common sense:

Dear Friends,

Hanging in my office in Washington, D.C., is a famous Charles Schulz cartoon. Once again, Charlie Brown falls for Lucy’s trick, as she pulls away the football and leaves Charlie on his backside. That image captures exactly what happens over and over again in Washington.

Now we have the football:

Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, tried to fool the American people last week with an immigration bill they claimed would give President Trump $25 billion over 10 years to secure our border in return for legalizing young illegal immigrants who were brought here as children.

The truth is, the Schumer bill was a bad joke. It guaranteed funding for only the first year (so, just 10 percent of what President Trump asked for). Every year after that, funding would be contingent on a report and certification by the Homeland Security Department – a process that is purposefully onerous and difficult to achieve, meaning the money would either be delayed or remain unspent. Furthermore, should a Democrat be elected President in the next 10 years, we know the Homeland Security Department would never seek certification and the money would never be spent.

Bureaucrats are a Democrat's best friend. They routinely cheat and lie, promising so much that conservatives want to hear, then run away from the actual program and push through only the stuff which helps their agenda.

It's time that more conservatives wake up to these serious problems in our government. They don't follow through on their promises, and they have little interest in solving the major issues in a way that are actually helpful and worthwhile with the needs of the American people.

In return for this pittance, the Schumer bill would legalize 3 to 4 million illegal immigrants - not just the 690,000 DACA enrollees, but everyone who is eligible for the program, their parents, and many others.  So the Schumer bill would legalize a population five times greater than what many Republicans are willing to accept for only about 10 percent of the border money. And Schumer called that a fair deal. 

No more legalizing illegal aliens. We need to put the needs of Americans First.

Predictably, the liberal media swallowed Schumer’s talking points, blaming the President for refusing a deal to protect DACA recipients.  Once again, conservatives who attempt to compromise are accused of bargaining in bad faith, when the truth is Democrats want porous borders and are using the so-called “Dreamers” as political pawns.

The media can make any arguments they want, but no one believes them. It's crystal clear to anyone paying attention that the Democratic Party never wanted to solve this illegal alien mess. They only wanted to foment this never-ending wedge issue to their political gain.

Now their time has run out, and Democrats are sore losers with nothing to show for their half measures to an increasingly enraged base.

The President has always been clear on the four provisions required to win his signature: border security, ending chain migration, cancelling the visa lottery and a reasonable DACA solution. The Schumer bill only fully addressed DACA, guaranteed just one year of funding for a wall, and completely ignored the other two issues.

An insult, not just a bad joke.

The good news is Republicans didn’t fall for the Democrats’ trick. This time, Charlie didn’t let Lucy take the football, to the disappointment of the media. Even better, there is growing support for a conservative bill that I have been fighting for in the House.

The bill is pretty good, except for the DACA part. No amnesty, no legal status, and everything else is a go.

After the Senate failed to advance any bill, the President reiterated his support for the Securing America’s Future Act, which I co-authored with House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Homeland Security Subcommittee Chairwoman Martha McSally, R-Ariz.

In a statement after the Senate theatrics, the President’s press secretary said, “The next step will be for the House to continue advancing the proposal from Chairman Goodlatte and Chairman McCaul.”

I doubt that this piece of legislation is going anywhere. Rep. Mark Meadows of the Freedom Caucus was quite pessimistic about anything coming through the US Senate ever. The whole process must begin in the House of Representatives, the more populist branch of government, which at this time has presented a piece of legislation far more response to President Trump's agenda.

Our bill fulfills the promise to fix our broken immigration system and is endorsed by NumbersUSA, the leading advocacy group for conservative immigration reform.

NumbersUSA is OK with the legislation. That is interesting and good. I still do not want to support any kind of legal status for illegal aliens, even if it's a temporary three-month stayover.

First, we secure our borders, including a southern border wall and other measures. Second, we stop chain migration and eliminate the visa lottery. Third, we boost interior enforcement, including cracking down on “sanctuary cities” and combatting asylum fraud. Finally, we provide legal status for current recipients of the DACA program. 

Will it be the last part? Are we certain that those illegal aliens will not be granted anything until everything else is put in place?

Last week, House leadership took steps to begin moving our bill forward. Nearly 200 House Republicans have committed to support the bill and we’re continuing to work to build additional support. 

The next step in this process is clear: We need the House to take action and hold a floor vote on our bill.  As my friend, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said: “If the House is going to wait for 60 Senators to figure out an immigration bill first, we might as well all go home and take a nap. The House should not wait on the Senate to act. We already have a bill that delivers on the voters' priorities. Let's lead.” 

Get rid of the DACA part, and all will be well.

The American people support our approach, according to recent polling. The Harvard-Harris poll found 65 percent support a deal for DACA that ends chain migration, eliminates the visa lottery, and secures the border with a wall. The Securing America's Future Act is the only bill in Congress that does all those things.

How about a bill without the DACA part?

We have to get this right; otherwise we put public safety, our economy and billions in taxpayer dollars at risk. I will continue the fight for common sense legislation that protects Idahoans and all Americans.

If you’d like to learn more details, click here for a one-page summary of our bill. To read the entire bill click here.  

Thank you,

Final Reflection

I am aware that government and legislation is a balancing act. All of that is true, but there are some issues which are simply not open to compromise. The federal government has an essential responsibility to secure our borders and protect the rights of Americans. That is not something that we should have to bargain or barter for.

I can assure you that this legislation will go nowhere in the United States Senate. Ted Cruz will vote against it, since it provides a pathway to citizens for a population of illegal aliens. Every single Democrat will vote against it for purely partisan reasons. Even if four of the ten vulnerable Senate Democratic incumbents were to vote for this legislation, that would generate a total of 54 aye votes.

Not enough to overcome a filibuster.

I think it's time for us to wait until 2019, when Republicans can have a better chance of winning more seats in the House and Senate and pass a more substantive set of bills on many issues, including repeal of Obamacare, immigration enforcement, Second Amendment issues, and more.

President Trump is Talking About Three Immigration Pillars, Not Four

Wow, this is quite a surprise.

President Trump had mentioned four pillars to his immigration proposal.

He tried to get something passed through the United States Senate with the help of fellow conservative stalwart Chuck Grassley.

But nothing happened.

Now, his administration has identified three--not four--pillars to his immigration plan:

My Administration has identified three major priorities for creating a safe, modern and lawful immigration system: fully securing the border, ending chain migration, and canceling the visa lottery. Congress must secure the immigration system and protect Americans. pic.twitter.com/xV1lgfhjBU

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2018

UH OH!

Guess which pillar is missing?!

Immigration Reformers: We 'Mobilized' to 'Defeat' Past Amnesties, Will Do Same with This Amnesty Plan

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Immigration Reformers: We ‘Mobilized’ to ‘Defeat’  Past Amnesties, Will Do Same with White House Amnesty Plan   by JOHN BINDER  26 Jan 2018  Washington, D.C. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/26/immigration-reformers-we-mobilized-to-defeat-past-amnesties-will-do-same-with-white-house-amnesty-plan/ Pro-American immigration reformers are vowing to help “defeat” a plan by White House advisers to give U.S. citizenship to millions of illegal aliens.  Roy Beck, the president of NumbersUSA, which advocates for an immigration policy that benefits American workers, said in a statement that his powerful network of amnesty opponents is ready to fight, should White House advisers continue pushing the expansive amnesty plan. Beck said: NumbersUSA has no choice but to oppose what is being suggested as the White House “framework” for a mass amnesty.  The plan seems eerily similar to the blueprint used for the 2007 Bush-Kennedy amnesty, which appeared to end chain migration, but wouldn’t actually end it for 17 years. NumbersUSA mobilized our huge grassroots army to defeat the 2007 amnesty, and we will do the same if this plan is proposed next week. Under the White House framework, young-adult illegal border crossers and visa overstayers would get immediate benefits, including, most importantly, the right to compete with Americans in the permanent job market.  But vulnerable American workers would get little or no relief from the competition of chain migration for 15 to 20 years.  Even if new applications for chain migration categories are stopped immediately, the framework would allow chain migration to continue for decades by allowing all of the four million foreigners in the waiting list to continue coming.  The plan, crafted by officials including former Koch Brothers executive Marc Short, Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen Nielsen, and senior adviser Stephen Miller, would begin by giving a pathway to U.S. citizenship to at least 1.8 million illegal aliens who are enrolled or eligible for the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The plan also includes: A nearly 10-year wait before extended-family chain migration is ended, providing no immediate relief to Americans A repurposing of the 50,000 visas that currently import foreign nationals through the Visa Lottery $25 billion to fund the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border No provisions to enact mandatory E-Verify, which would ban employers from hiring illegal aliens No provisions to deal with the issue of ending birthright citizenship Like Beck’s NumbersUSA, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — one of the leading pro-American immigration reformers in the country — told Breitbart News that the expansive amnesty is “an extremely bad idea,” as it does not suggest how it would limit the amnesty. As with the 1986 amnesty, the White House advisers’ amnesty plan has the potential to lead to massive amounts of fraud, allowing millions more ineligible illegal aliens to gain a pathway to U.S. citizenship. The plan, additionally, does not include provisions that would prevent future administrations from waving the pathway to citizenship requirements, opening the amnesty up to potentially the full 12 to 30 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. Every year, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 foreign nationals, with the vast majority deriving from family-based chain migration, whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population. Mass immigration has come at the expense of America’s working and middle class, which has suffered from poor job growth, stagnant wages, and increased public costs to offset the importation of millions of low-skilled foreign nationals. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

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POTUS to Cryin' Chuck: We Are Building the Wall!

Arthur, You might have heard Chuck Schumer say that the Wall is “off the table.” NO, IT’S NOT, CHUCK! I have absolutely no problem walking away from any deal that does not fund our wall AND fails to stop the floodgates of illegal immigration. If we don’t truly secure our borders, you can say goodbye to our country. Chuck needs to understand that this isn’t just my demand. These are the non-negotiable demands of the American people! Tell Chuck NOW!    Official Build The Wall Petition BUILD THE WALL: STEP 2 OF 3 TELL CHUCK SCHUMER: BUILD THE WALL SIGN YOUR NAME  Thanks, Donald J. Trump President of the United States   SIGN YOUR NAME

Counter-Protest in LA! President Trump, #RepealDACA Now!

Folks!
We need to step up and push against this perverse disregard for our nation's immigration laws.
The arrogant left-wing hate groups all over California are putting the demands of illegal aliens and their enablers ahead of American citizens.
This is wrong, and we just cannot allow this to happen!
Please email me or text me through Facebook if you are able to attend and counter protest this DACA kaka!
Enough is enough!
Our federal government must put the needs of Americans First, and stop pandering to illegal aliens and the open borders-amnesty lobby. The media--the world!--needs to know that 4.5 million Californians voted for Donald Trump, and they do not support the scuttling and undermining of our nation's immigration laws!

Please contact me if you can attend to counter-protest! Tell President Trump: Repeal DACA Now!
Arthur Schaper, LA County for Trump arthurschaper@hotmail.com
Arthur--


You probably heard the rumors about DACA ending - which would drastically change the lives of over 800,000 immigrant youth in this country. DACA is still in place until an official announcement is made, which we expect to happen tomorrow, Tuesday, September 5th.

That’s why now more than ever we need to be ready to take action across the country to show Trump and this administration that we won’t let this happen without a serious fight. Can I count on you to come out TOMORROW September 5th to protect DACA and immigrant youth like me?

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White supremacists have long been plotting a way to deport more and more people, and one of their ways is to end DACA. Together we can send the message that people of consciousness are the majority and that we'll defend immigrants from their agenda. Together we can heal our communities by coming out this Tuesday.

Will I see you out there?

Let’s send a loud and bold message to Trump and White Supremacists tomorrow: DACA and immigrants are #HereToStay!

See you in the streets,
Adrian and the rest of team at United We Dream

PS:  We will hold a community call on Tuesday, September 5th at 9pm ET in English. Text DACACall to 877- 877 right now to RSVP. Once it’s time for the community call, we’ll call your phone and connect you into the national community call. It’s free to participate and we’ll have experts answer your questions live.  

Busting the Lies: Americans Will Take Jobs that "Only Immigrants Will Work"

I just received this email.

This lady was looking for workers at the local Home Depot, but the illegal aliens lined up along the sidewalk were asking for inflate wages.

What?

Read her own below:

Last weekend at HOME DEPOT. We needed help to “load and unloaded boxes to a Storage place”. I went to Home Depot looking for some help. There was a group of unskilled Mexicans maybe all illegals looking for job. They run fast towards me. I explained what the job was about, and I asked how much do you charge? They all said $15.00 dollars. They form like a Union. I am very sure the leaders threaten to the ones want to work for less money.

I went back home. The following day I advertised the same add in “Orange County Craig’s list” at 6:30 am. we want to pay $10.00 to $15.00 per hour. IN TEN MINUTES 17 young AMERICANS sent me Text messages. In few words they also explained to me about their background. We hired two guys and canceled the add immediately. That means that many of our people are looking for a job. They were responsible, hard and fast workers. HIRE AMERICANS.

How about that?

Americans are ready and willing to work the jobs which our political class has determined will never get done by our own people.

And it's a bold-faced lie.

We can Make America Work Again. It starts with respect for our American fellow-citizens, and a generous respect for the ingenuity and opportunity that all of them can act on.

Speaker Paul Ryan Wants to Hear From You On Any Issues ... Except Immigration

Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has proved to stay in line with pushing amnesty and pathways to citizenship outside of already laid legal strictures.

In a 2013 colloquium with amnesty traitor Luis Gutierrez, Ryan announced that he wanted to place himself in the shoes of "immigrants" to understand what they are going through.

He has been a dedicated advocate for expansion of H-1B and other work vises for foreign nationals at the expense of hard-working Americans, and then 95 million who are out of work!

This is outrageous!

He tried to run away from Donald Trump, and now he is trying to undermine the rule of law and Trump's plans to build a border wall and deport illegal aliens.

He even assured an illegal alien "DREAMER" that she would not have to worry about deportation:

Speaker Ryan's House Office Number is (202) 225-0600.

I called his office because I wanted to share my vocal displeasure with his continued empathy for illegal aliens but not for American citizens.

I got his voicemail, of course, but also a series of options for leaving a message on specific issues:

1. A Better Way Forward.This phrase represents a list of policy reforms which Speaker Ryan wants to tackle, including National Security.

2. President Obama's Health Care Law

3. Second Amendment

4. Tax reform

5. To hear Speaker Ryan's Statement on Iran

6. Leave a voicemail.

Notice that Speaker Ryan leaves nothing about sharing our views on Immigration!

There are more issues and concerns tied to immigration than just national security.

Americans are facing depressed wages and diminishing job opportunities.

Sanctuary cities are impelling American citizens, too.

The rule of law is under attack like never before -- and Yet Paul Ryan does not want to hear what Americans think about immigration?

Donald Trump got elected on a hard-line stance for immigration:

1.Build the wall

2. E-Verfiy

3. Welfare Reform

4. Triple the border patrol

5. Punish VISA overstays

This message is not hard to grasp.

He delivered an incredibly effective message in Arizona:

Congressmsan Ryan, I do want Obamacare repealed I want tax reform, and I want Second Amendment rights protected and expanded.

But most of all, I want immigration laws enforced in our country--in my country!

And you need to stop being blind and deaf to our concerns!

Our maybe Paul Nehlen makes to need another bid to unseat Ryan!

Contact Speaker Paul Ryan, and demand immigration ENFORCEMENT!

Boehner the Retiree Reminds Me Why I am Glad He Is Gone

For my part, I am glad that John Boehner is gone.

He was a great spokesman when he served as the House Minority Leader.

As Speaker of the House, he had more slips and fails than successes.

He spent too much time being Barack Obama's friend.

He refused to double-down and fight. When Congress went into shut-down mode, he was not working hard enough to ensure that the Democrats would do what they needed to do. He has a number of weak Democrats which he could exploit because of their swing district status.

Yet he refused.

Two months later, Boehner would announce to the public on Jay Leno's program that the shut-down was our fault, and that he should not have done it.

Worse than that, he was a cheerleader for amnesty, or as he blithely liked to call it, "immigration reform".

Ugh!

The American people of all backgrounds do not want amnesty. They want the rule of  law enforced. Why is this a matter that is so confusing and difficult for lawmakers to understand?

So, when I heard the news that Boehner was stepping down following Mark Meadows (R-NC) discharge petition, I was all kinds of happy!

And now, Boehner has had to adjust to life outside of the Beltway.

Politico has some interesting reporting, which can be quite informative.

What has Boehner since he was bounced out of office?

Life after power: John Boehner's uneasy adjustment to retirement

NAPLES, Fla. — John Boehner has been doing a “lot of laundry” since he left Congress. He’s been ironing a lot, too, and vacuuming his floors. Plenty of time to do all kinds of little things, he says.

This is one fascinating aspect of the American system. No political figure can claim their royalty status forever. Once they walk out of Congress (or our forced out or thrown out!), it's over.

They got back to civilian life and relative obscurity. Such was the genius of the Framers and our Constitutional Framework. No one becomes a demi-god or a civilian king.

“My apartment looks like it’s brand new,” he told POLITICO here in his first interview since he departed Congress.

This is life after power.

This statement is misleading. True power rests with the individual citizen, and it should not rest with the federal or state governments. They are not serve as our servants, not our masters.

Boehner first won public office in 1981, when he was elected Union Township trustee in West Chester, Ohio. He was quickly elected to a seat in the Statehouse in Columbus, and six years later left for Washington, where he served until the end of October. Then, after 34 years, it all vanished. The staff. The massive office. The rigid schedule.

John Boehner has a new reality. He’s now just John Boehner.

Let us never forget that Politico is left-leaning, and they treat political power as an ultimate.

“It’s weird,” Boehner said, standing in the Naples Beach Hotel. Minutes later, he would give his first speech as a private citizen in three decades.

“No job, no office, hardly any staff,” Boehner said of life these days. “I’m used to going all the time. Then you’re not going all the time.”

That sounds like a dream for lots of people. They wish that they could retire after an incredible career of any kind. How much does Boehner get because of his pension as a Congressman and then Speaker of the House?

“It’s,” Boehner said with a pause, “different.”

The man who bounced around the country in motorcades supported by a staff of dozens is suddenly facing a strange new reality.

“I haven’t lived anywhere in 20 years except in hotel rooms,” Boehner said in his first speech since resigning from Congress, an upbeat, hourlong talk to the Forum Club of Southwest Florida. “You spend 200 nights a year traveling around the country, I don’t know, where do you live? I haven’t driven a car for nine years. I did a couple of weeks ago. I have a valid driver’s license. I was very careful. But, you know, I need a car. So do I get a car in Ohio? Do I get a car here? Do I get a car in D.C.? I don’t know. Much less try to figure out what I’m actually going to do.”

Living in hotel rooms? You mean like the Mexican billionaire and other rich elites? I have worked with and talked with other professionals who spend most of their working lives on the road and in careers. It's not fun, they tell me. They would like to be more stable, in a home location.

It’s quite the transition. Boehner has been a major player in Washington for more than 20 years, serving as President Barack Obama’s foil for the past five. But to hear Boehner now, he’s just a man trying to find his way.

“I honestly can’t wait to see what the next chapter of this life of mine is going to look like,” Boehner admitted to the audience here.

Who cares?

He’s assembled a small staff to figure it out. Boehner has hired Squire Patton Boggs’ partner Dave Schnittger, a longtime trusted aide, to handle news media calls and deal with whatever else comes up. He has another staffer to look after his political matters, and an aide to keep track of appointments and other issues. Boehner has millions of dollars in campaign cash to deal with, bills to pay and Republican organizations salivating for his support. Robert Barnett, the D.C. power lawyer, will handle the possible book deal. And Boehner is beginning, quite slowly, to sift through offers to give paid speeches.

Oh, poor baby does not know what to do with himself and his life? He gets to give speeches, and get paid big money to give them. Wow, it's a hard-knock life, isn't it! (*single tear*)

Boehner is splitting his time between his condominium in nearby Marco Island, Florida, his home in the Cincinnati area and Washington. On a recent afternoon, he was spotted shopping at the Harris Teeter in Navy Yard in D.C., pushing his own cart as he grabbed groceries.

Well, that's a welcome sight. I wonder ... how do Congressmen feed themselves when they are in Washington?

Not everything has changed, however. On Friday, with the temperature reaching 90 degrees, Boehner wore a dark blue suit and light blue tie — his preferred Capitol couture — and swirled a glass of red wine at a reception before a noon lunch. Capitol Police officers still trail Boehner, but the detail is shrinking. Instead of a crew of five or more police officers, just a couple stood by the former speaker as he shook hands and chatted at a hotel here alongside a browning golf course.

Fair enough. There is good reason to maintain detail of a certain kind around former lawmakers who held such pre-eminence as Boehner.

Asked in the interview with Politico whether he is keeping an eye on Congress, Boehner said initially said “no” before reversing himself: “Well, kind of, but you know.” He hasn’t gotten accustomed to the fact that he’s a private citizen. He still refers to Republican members of Congress as his “colleagues,” and the speakership as “my job.”

"Private citizen" is the highest calling in the land. No one should reject that title.

But he is certainly entering a new phase, and the speech here was the first of many in the coming years that will make the millionaire Boehner even wealthier.

"Millionaire Boehner" -- and how did he get so wealthy?

His hourlong talk — a roughly 15-minute speech and 40-minute Q&A — was part variety show and part history lesson, with a dash of machismo. Since Boehner left Washington, he’s almost completely dropped his guard. He said it “saddens” him he was never able to complete a comprehensive reform of the nation’s immigration laws “because the country needs it.” That comment would’ve ignited fury just months ago.

ARGH! This arrogance shows everything that is wrong with Washington. He did not learn the lesson. He was so tone-deaf to the what the country needed, and what the voters really wanted. They wanted enforcement, not reform. They wanted a big beautiful wall, not

He also veered into the personal. He joked to the crowd of hundreds here that his wife recently told friends that she’s been able to stay married to him for 42 years because “he’s only been around 10” years.

The rest of us in Washington and around the country could not stand him.

Mike Pence (now the Vice President) waned to run for minority leader after (now disgraced) Dennis Hastert stepped down. What would have happened if the roles had been reversed?

He called the House Republican Conference a “band of renegades,” but said newly elected Speaker Paul Ryan has a “real opportunity” to lead them. As for Boehner, he’s the “same jackass that walked into [Congress] 25 years ago,” he said.

The arrogance is just too hard to ignore, Once again, everything that is wrong with Washington, you can find this abrupt and arrogant attitude. How much more wine does he plan on drinking in this interview, I wonder?

Speaker Paul Ryan has endured similar blow-back to what Boehner endured. Apparently, the leadership in the House tightened up the rules in order to prevent another discharge petition from emerging.

Boehner also offered the crowd some behind-the-scenes glimpses of his past life. When members of Congress came to him to ask for favors, Boehner said he would “lean back and take a puff of my cigarette and say, ‘That’s just not going to happen.’”

“At the end of the day, when you’re open and honest with people, at the end of the day they respect you far more,” Boehner said.

This statement is the biggest crock of them all. This man was routinely undermining the grassroots. He was dead-set on getting amnesty of some kind passed.

Notice in this video how he mocked his conservative peers in the House of Representatives, who refused to go along with immigration "reform":

I think this was the last straw for many Republicans, not just in the House Conference, but across the country. The men and women elected to the House Majority were not sent there to open up the nation's orders, but to protect American interests.

Boehner seemed so intent on ignoring that.

Early signs are that Boehner won’t be the political animal in retirement that some expected. In the past, Boehner took credit for urging Jeb Bush to run for president. But asked now, he seemed to have no use for the 2016 contest, refusing to weigh in on the GOP field. He said he watched the recent debate for “as long as I could.”

Well, that says it all, doesn't it. Boehner may have left Washington Establishment, but Washington Establishment did not leave him. That's more of the problem. There really is something in the water in that town. Draining the swamp will prove very difficult, especially for those

Boehner even admitted he previously misled reporters when he said he watched the presidential debates in 2012. What he really wanted to say: “I listen to that all day long, why would I want to listen to it all night long?”

In his most direct terms so far, Boehner spoke of the group of lawmakers that pushed him out of the speakership. He said during the speech that he fought with them over tactics, not strategy. Many of his GOP colleagues are perfectionists in a system of government that doesn’t allow for perfection, Boehner said.

Tactics and strategy are the same thing! The fact that the former Speaker cannot tell the difference is a big part of the problem. Strategy and tactics are the same, and they need to be coordinated toward doing what is best for the country!

The governing class routinely resists a fight. They have more of an appetite for passing legislation rather than doing the best to uphold the rule of law. On some issues, there is no room for compromise. None. The federal government continues to spend money that the country simply does not have. Entitlement reform is a must. Enforcement of our borders is a priority, and there should be no deal-making in the process to make it happen.

“Nothing was good enough,” Boehner said, in a kind of reflective comment he never would’ve made as speaker. “When we protected 99 percent of the American people from an increase in taxes, most of my Republicans colleagues voted no. When we did the big money-saving bill, $2 trillion in 2011, half of my Republican colleagues voted no. Even when we passed these changes to Medicare earlier this year and solved the payment system for how we pay doctors for Medicare patients, which has been a problem for 15 years, and no one could solve it, [Nancy] Pelosi and I got it solved, and paid for it from these long-term changes to Medicare.

How about massive entitlement reforms altogether? Where was he to try to force another repeal of Obamacare? Why won't Republicans collude better with the grassroots to put pressure on President Obama and the left-wing juggernaut of anti-American folly?

“And yet 40-something of my colleagues voted no, while almost everyone else in Congress voted yes,” he continued. “Why? Because it wasn’t good enough.”

The "colleagues" whom he despised were respecting the will of the voters and the grassroots conservative who brought Congress back into Republican hands. No one should blame them for holding Congress in light esteem following decades of taxation and spending with no long-term focus on making America great again.

“You just can’t do perfection in a system of government like we have.”

Not necessarily perfection, but a rigid dedication to order. That is what is needed.

Boehner’s critique of congressional paralysis is familiar. He said voters get information — right or wrong — very quickly, and it pushes them to extreme poles. He likened the system to a pressure cooker and said, “Paul Ryan has got to succeed in a very difficult environment.”

Congressional paralysis will continue to be the norm until Congress repeals Obamacare, gets rid of the amnesty bitter-clingers, and starts getting rid of its inordinate power acquired over decades of citizen inaction.

“I got to the point when I [had] to sneak into the White House to see the president,” Boehner said. “Because if I went to the White House to see the president, the right would get all worked up, wondering what I was up to. The left gets all worked up, wondering what the president is up to. ‘What are these two going to do now?’”

Those reactions are healthy. There is nothing wrong with political distrust. Nothing at all

Boehner did say his decision to leave Congress was tied to the Pope Francis’ late September visit. He recalled one moment, after a private meeting, when the pope asked for a glass of water. Boehner thought the pontiff was readying to baptize his young grandson. Instead, he just took a sip.

“It was the greatest head fake in history,” Boehner said.

What does a pope drinking water have to do with anything? With everything? John Boehner was forced out because of Meadow's discharge petition, which in turn was a result of leadership's brazen attempt to kick him off a committee chairmanship.

Boehner wanted an establishment brand of politics, the same ol' status uo, passing measures paven. WRONG.

Bringing the pope to the Capitol was the capstone of his career, but Boehner’s legacy will be inextricably tied to another man: Obama.

Yes, and for that reason, too, he was pushed out. Obama even featured the former speaker as a friend of his in his private viewing room. All of this is wrong. Just plain wrong.

Boehner criticized Obama’s policies at length, from how the president handled the 2009 stimulus, to the health care bill to the president’s Middle East strategy. Two weeks before he resigned, Boehner said he had sharp words for Obama. As Boehner was trying to craft a budget deal, he said he told the president that he “didn’t call to listen to you lecture me.”

But after he announced his resignation, Boehner said he was on the phone with Obama, and the president said, “Man, I’m going to miss you.”

“Yes you are, Mr. President,” Boehner recalled telling Obama.

Now I know that I am going to be sick!