I just contacted McConnell’s office in Washington. I’m a Kentucky resident so I felt extra compelled to call. I got the pat and somewhat condascending response from the person I talked to, which means they’re getting a tons of calls and getting tired of them.

I then contacted a political colleague who happens to work on McConnell’s staff, only I did it on his Facebook wall. Basically, I asked him to please tell me that McConnell isn’t just laying over and letting Grassley get a hold of this.

Keep in mind I know this contact only because he and I happened to work together during the ’08 campaign in the Lexington office. In other words, we haven’t talked since and wouldn’t have expected it. Well, it wasn’t but 10 seconds after posting on his Facebook wall he called me back pleading that I would take it down.

He said for the next 48 hours this is too hot to touch. His cell connection was horrible, so I didn’t get much more than that. Needless to say, we must not stop putting pressure on McConnell over this, and the rest of the Republican leadership for that matter.

I got the real sense from the lack of explanation from my “friend” that McConnell and others are trying to wait this thing out, probably thinking the weekend will bring a respite from the onslaught of attention around this.

So, keep it up RedStaters. Don’t stop making the calls and sending the e-mails… It’s being heard, but they’re no yet listening.

Though I think of it more as wearing blinders; the internal Senate system works fine for them, and so long as the Democrats lets them keep their perks and their pork, nothing really needs to change.

Of course, when they discover that their ship is sinking and the pirates have previously cut the lines to lifeboats and they aren’t available, they may regret their denial that the new management were really pirates.

Or they’re like generals used to the choreography of daily skirmishes who fail to realize that the enemy has started an all-out assault.