Bradley Devlin

To Republican Senators and Senate Staffers. Stop overthinking. If you have good bills, just throw them on the floor and get to a vote as quickly as you can. See what happens. The more exciting and interesting the bills, the bills the base likes, just throw ‘em up. I’m not talking about the bills some lobbyists are pushing. You know they’re going to fund you because the Dems are going to attack basically every profitable industry. You don’t need to win them over. Maybe you haven’t caught on yet, but it’s the voters you need to win. This is your one shot to show your voters you can do something. So, do something — frankly anything at this point is better than the status quo. What have you got to lose? You’re probably not going to win again until 2032. For most of you, this is your last chance to do anything meaningful in your boxed-in, overscheduled, highly wrangled careers. Be a dragon and breath some fire. Anyone can blow smoke. Nominees? Don’t put them through a rigorous process — make sure they’re good and go. Don’t worry about the democrats not confirming any nominees in the next Congress. They probably won’t confirm people you like. Or maybe they will. But if they do, it has nothing to do with you. Just confirm them all. Get it done. What else are you going to do? Another codel? You’ll have plenty of time for those in the next Congress. Let’s be honest, we both know you won’t have much else to do then. You don’t need to fundraise or campaign right now. You already lost. Do you wanna be a loser? Show us you can win. Gotta get home to see your family? Okay, yeah I get it. But they don’t want you to come home and do nothing. They want you to go kill it. They didn’t sacrifice all that (YOU KNOW) they sacrificed so you can be a wimp loser and sit at home in the recliner watching stronger men run the ball on ESPN. They want to watch YOU run the ball on c-span. Even if they say they don’t, trust me, they do. Now this isn’t directed to the ones who are fighters. They don’t need this advice. But the rest of you, let’s go. Launch some grenades. Smell the napalm. Kick some ass. Don’t play patty cake with the Dems. Play like you’re in the jungles of Vietnam and you’ve only got a machete to get you home. You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. If you can’t do that, then maybe just go lick a ski lift in January and ride it round and round until you get frost bite. Probably more fun than doing nothing in the Senate.