I feel your pain. I still intend to write my senators though for the following reasons:
1. Simple therapy. It will be good to get some things off the chest.
2. To outline and highlight Alito's good points, and to counter some of the spin that will undoubtedly come out of the left. By doing so, it will let them know that at least someone here in the socialist republic of Maryland is keeping track of these things, and isn't some mindless, vote for anyone who sounds good on TV lemming that I'm sure they think populate this state.
The problem we have here in Illinois is that Chicago is its own state aside from the rest of Illinois. Durbin knows and my guess is Obama does too from his state government experience. Simply put, neither one cares. They count on their votes from Chicago and they do Chicago's bidding regardless.
I would love to see durbin ousted. Maybe then Illinois can join ranks of states that have SANE representation!