Rocky's Road for the Public Option

Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee ran Jay Rockefeller's "public option" amendment to health care reform off the road. I wonder if Rocky now thinks he might be wrong about this issue since a lot of the Democrats and none of the Republicans are for it? I doubt it. In 2008 Rocky, as a "Super Delegate" to the Democratic Convention, came out in support of Obama knowing that 75% of the Democrats in West Virginia were for Hillary Clinton. Before reversing his position, Rocky was once against surface mining in West Virginia even though the majority of the citizens of West Virginia were in favor of it. Now he proposes the public option knowing that 56% of the people in the USA are against it and a higher percentage in West Virginia is against it. Rocky has not been held accountable by the voters of West Virginia in the past for turning his back on the voters and he probably thinks he won't be in the future. How can Rocky continue to "thumb his nose" at the voters of this state? Rocky probably will not run for Senate again (age and back trouble). He is no longer worried about the voters and citizens of West Virginia. Being a liberal elitist who knows what is best for everyone else, he is going to vote his will (or that of his liberal, socialist advisors) and let our children and grandchildren live with the mess. Sadly, Rocky has not taken a position on the "Cap and Trade" Bill (aka "The Kneecap our Trade" and the "Cap and Tax" Bill). This bill will do nothing to improve the environment, will put American business at a competitive disadvantage and will be the largest tax increase in our history. This bill will devestate the mining industry and West Virginia which depends so heavily on it. If you were to go after Disney, everyone in the Florida delegation would be screaming at the top of their lungs. Mining is under attack from the Obama Administration and From Byrd, Rockefeller, Rahall and Mollohan the silence is deafening...