I wrote Senator McCaskill two emails prior to the vote on the Iraq Supplemental funding bill. In the first, I asked her to listen to the voters who sent her there NOT to rubberstamp this President when it comes to the war and vote AGAINST any funding bill that did not contain withdrawal provisions. The next day, I sent her a letter telling her that she needed to vote AGAINST cloture on the bill since it was clear it would not contain any checks on this President's ability to continue the war. At no point in either of my letters did I threaten any retaliation for her vote if it wasn't as I hoped.
What's next after the flip
So, as we now know, she caved like many of the Democrats in the Senate and signed off on a blank check. It seems to me that it is time for Senator McCaskill to get a taste of her own medicine. In 2004, she decided to challenge incumbent Democratic governor Bob Holden in the democratic primary.
I realize it is 5 years away, and we need to get rid of Kit Bond in 2010 first. But, I suspect that the ground work needs to begin soon to identify a primary challenger for Senator McCaskill in 2012. This was the issue for the 2006 election and a primary reason why she is now a Senator instead of a lobbyist. With her vote yesterday, she demonstrated that she's just as unwilling to listen to the American people as George W. Bush. To borrow from another Kossack, it's time to redeploy Senator McCaskill.