As Maine goes so goes the climate bill: Olympia Snowe is open to cap on utility emissions, while Susan Collins is as incoherent as Lindesy Graham

Where will Republican votes for an energy bill that contains some carbon pricing mechanism come from?

Lindsey Graham remains as incoherent as ever.  On the one hand he has said he is open to a cap on emissions from utilities (see "It's alive!"), but on the other he has said he wants to push it "next year."  Mañana, mañana, mañana.

I'm still scoring him as a "yes," if a bill actually comes up for a vote.

The next two likeliest Republicans to support some sort of cap are the Maine Senators —...