Senate saboteurs

A good editorial from the Courier-Journal:

Has Congress gone crazy?

That’s what many U.S. observers and much of the world must be wondering after a group of rogue Republican senators opted to communicate directly by letter with “the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” seeking to undercut President Barack Obama’s ongoing negotiations with Iran over nuclear enrichment.

...Among the 47 senators signing the letter: Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, the new Senate majority leader, and Rand Paul, a first-term senator with presidential aspirations.

Mr. McConnell, who took over the leadership post this year with a pledge to end dysfunction and return the Senate to a working body, appears off to a poor start. And if Mr. Paul’s signature represents his grasp of foreign policy, Republicans would be justifiably leery about him as a presidential nominee.