MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • July 24, 2022
Much of the criticism about Sen. Joe Manchin’s self-interested scuttling of his own party’s plan to combat the ravages of climate change is warranted and eminently fair. Nevertheless, the patrician upper house has 99 other voting members, and so-called “moderates” like Sen. Susan Collins, who is beholden to party but doesn’t represent a state with rich gas or coal reserves, could exercise some of her power to help improve the future. As much of the world literally and figuratively burned last week, rudderless politicians who are enslaved by corporate interests and senseless planks in a party platform did nothing but watch. I’m “very disappointed” in Sen. Collins. ~ Chris Indorf, Saco