Should Sen. Susan Collins consider her career in jeopardy having voted against the big beautiful (disaster) bill?

She is only partly in the camp of senators who have abdicated their roles and displayed obscene fealty while ignoring their constituents. They simply are not doing their jobs. The slashed funds had already been approved by a bipartisan congressional vote. By giving President Trump the power to rescind their vote, they have made themselves irrelevant. Like the British say, redundant. Maybe give them the boot as well in the name of waste and abuse.

Collins voted to advance this bill. If she had firmly felt the bill was inherently flawed, why advance it? It was her save: vote to advance, knowing her one vote would not make a bit of difference, then grandstand with the “No” vote claiming outrage, all the while knowing her toady co-conspirators would save the day.

No, she may not have swallowed (all) the Kool-Aid (yet) — like Johnson — but she teeters on the wall of truly doing good for Mainers while devastating the rest of the country, like Lisa Murkowski’s selfish, self-serving dealmaking.

Is her career in jeopardy in this administration? I say unlikely, as her “No” votes do nothing to stop the bleeding. And that is the goal of this administration.

Olivia Atherton
Solon