"...I can safely guarantee you that your Senators stopped reading it at that point too, and tossed it into the 'nutcase file.' "
That's a bet which I would not put any money against myself, actually.
As a matter of fact, I rather doubt that they even got past my name, as they no doubt know me all too well by now and have religated me to their respective "Kook Lists / Whackko Files" quite some time ago.
In order to have any credibility with these two, I would probably have to "tone it down" to the point where I was begging for an extension of the AWB to include all guns and sharp pointy-things as well, and asking where I should go to surrender all of my naughty-things to the Government.
Please hold not thy breath waiting for any such "diplomacy" from this recalcitrant old Yankee Onkel.
I don't know why I bother, really; it's sort of a study in futility.
But even if our cause is an obviously lost one, some of us seem compelled to at least make that one last gesture or word of defiance as they drag us down into the keep, in vain as it well might be.
UJ
Our cause is lost because we fear based. We will continue to vote for the 'lesser of evils' instead of true conservatives because we fear how much 'worse' it would be if the other side got elected (never mind that everything the 'other side' does is with the cooperation and aid of 'our side'). Fear attracts that which it is fixated on. Until we start voting for people who genuinely represent conservatism (and I'm not talking about the Arnie types) and the Pubbies lose a few elections to the 'other side' because of it, there will be no change in the way things are going: The Repbulicans will not run true conservatives till people refuse to vote for false conservatives.