COWARDS! I was online earlier today at the Senate web site looking for email/telephone/fax numbers to contact my Senators. Here's what I found:

I thought it strange, but Sen. Kaine has always made email contact difficult. So I tried my other Senator, Mark Warner. Same thing.

But ... try a Republican Senator. I checked theTexas senators, Cruz and Cornyn. There web sites are up and running; the email contact forms are available. My wife checked a number of other senators, and the rule seems to be this: if your Senator is Republican, no problems; if your Senator is a Democrat from a deep blue state (think California), no problem; if your Senator is a Democrat from a red or purple state (e.g., Virginia), big problem. It's not the shutdown slowdown, the cowards are afraid to hear from you.

One teeny, tiny little problem they missed: you can still find their district office phone and fax numbers on their home pages ... and I have a fax modem!