In a recent posting in ShowMeProgress<\/a>, a blogger going by the name of Willy K, residing in \u00a0southwest Missouri reports on an exchange of ideas<\/a> that he had with the office of Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO)<\/a>.\u00a0 Willy is concerned that Senator McCaskill is placing so much emphasis on the government maintaining financial accountability that she has put aside addressing the pressing social issues that confront us.<\/p>\n Senator McCaskill is one of those enigmatic Democratic senators who supports the public option for health care one day and abandons it the next day.\u00a0 In the vernacular, she flip-flops.\u00a0 While this is speculation, it seems that as an empathetic individual she knows that the public option is a viable way to provide universal, reasonably-priced health care for all Americans and keep the insurance companies in check.\u00a0 That\u2019s the flip.\u00a0 But the flop is either her concern for re-election in 2012 or just a natural desire to please her Missouri constituents.\u00a0 At a town hall last August in Hillsboro (Jefferson County), she said that she would base her position on health care on the \u201cbeliefs of the citizens of Missouri.\u201d<\/p>\n We elect our leaders to lead.\u00a0 And to be blunt, if I was going to \u201cfollow\u201d I\u2019d find an individual or group with better judgment than \u201cthe citizens of Missouri.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s not politically correct to say this, but as we\u2019ve stated before<\/a>, the American people just aren\u2019t that smart when it comes to public policy.<\/p>\n