You know I have an infinity to e-mail our Senators with my thoughts. Recently, I have corresponded twice about “cap and trade”. Here’s what I THINK is going on. I have gotten no response from Senator Warner. This is unusual. From Day 1, his office has been well managed. Usually within a few days of my terse epistles, I’d receive a response. While this response might not directly address my concerns, it would generally spell out his position. Well, does his non response this time indicate he’s opposed to cap and trade? I sure hope so.

     Now, let’s turn our attention to our wonderful SENIOR senator. In mid June, I got an “out of blue” e-mail from Senator Webb addressing my concerns about limits on charitable and interest deductions. I had written Clown Boy sometime in March on this issue. While this response was “very personalize” to this specific issue, the from line in e-mail was correspondence_reply@webb.senate.gov. When I get responses from Senator Warner, the from line reads “Office of Senator Mark Warner”. See, Mark and I are tight; and he knows how much I relish official looking correspondence.

    Now I don’t want to be too tough on old Webbie. In my inbox this morning was a correspondence_reply@webb.senate.gov. It looks like to me that Webb’s staff has now learned about autoresponders, since the gist of the response was to let me know that over 100,000 Virginians will avail themselves of corresponding with the Senator via the internet this year. Woohoo! Way to go, Jim. You da’ man. But here’s a suggestion. Get your staff to change the from line on your autoresponder. Yes, this can be done. Personally, you know what I’d like – “Clown Boy – US Senate”.