Senator Mitch McConnell is MIA

A superb editorial in today's Courier-Journal:

It takes a lot of brass to obstruct a deal, get left out of it, vote against it, yet bask in shared credit for it.

But that is exactly what Kentucky’s senior Sen. Mitch McConnell did this week after some of his more rational Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate pushed him aside to broker an agreement with Democrats to finally begin approving stalled executive branch appointees of President Barack Obama.

Mr. McConnell, minority leader of Senate Republicans, became even too obstructive for his own colleagues this week as they sought to end the endless GOP filibusters that have ground Washington to a halt.