Some friendly advise because I'm worried about you, Norm

Norm. I'm seriously concerned about your well-being and your family. I realize you're barely making it financially as a Senator and the stress of your reelection campaign has got to be giving you an ulcer. It's just not fair that a Senator such as you should be living in the dive basement of a Replubican political operative and yet have to work so hard in such a anti-Replubican reelection environment.

But I have an idea. You should become a lobbyist.

The private sector isn't so bad. At a bare minimum you would triple your current salary. Then you can keep Laurie living in her accustomed style out in California, pay for your kids college educations, take your girlfriends out for nice dinners and live in a decent condo in Washington, DC. Heck, you can even sell the dump back in St. Paul if you were a lobbyist.

Think about it. Seriously.

As a back-bench Senator, you can't get much done. Previously, you could bring lots of people together. You could bring the Replubican lobbyists together with the Replubican leaders of the Senate in an environment where the Replubicans controlled all three branches of the government. It was all so much easier then. You could railroad all kinds of right wing things through Congress.

But think about you as a lobbyist.

Picture getting alot done. Picture bringing people, your kind of people, together. Picture hanging out with all those nice Replubicans you met while you were a Senator. You could laugh at their squalid living conditions and your past plight when you were one of them. Picture representing your corporate buddies straight up rather than hiding your allegiance to them. Picture not having to live the lie that you're representing the people of Minnesota. You could actually represent the people you care about ... CEOs and polticos.

All you've got to do is keep campaigning the way you are.

Anytime Al Franken releases a YouTube video, have your staff go ape-**** drawing more attention to it than it might have otherwise gotten. Keep bringing up your marriage. Keep overemphasizing that you're married ... to Laurie ... that the two of you live in St. Paul. Have Laurie appear in at least every third commercial you make. Keep trying to make your ads funny. Keep reminding Minnesotans of your accomplishments as mayor of St. Paul. Keep flip flopping on issues. Make sure your buddies in the private sector form more fake groups then make commercials attacking Al Franken using lies. And especially, make more attack ads in which you lie about Al Franken. Everyone knows you are a little loose with the truth and this will only reinforce it. Keep all these things up and you'll be in the private sector making seriously fat cash as a lobbyist.

It'll be better for everybody.