Edit: Risch, Crapo Irritate Iran

U.S. Sen. Jim Risch must care more about partisan demagoguery than his own political capital on the Intelligence and Foreign Relations committees. The Idaho Republican might have wasted that capital Monday when he joined 46 other GOP senators, including Idaho comrade Mike Crapo, and penned his name to a patronizing letter to the Iranian government. “First, under our Constitution, while the president negotiates international agreements, Congress plays a significant role in ratifying them,” reads the condescending civics lecture where GOP senators essentially say the U.S. doesn’t honor its commitments. There’s a problem with that statements, which Idaho’s two senators wholeheartedly supported. It’s just plain incorrect, notes Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith at lawfareblog.com. How embarrassing/Opinion Editor Jon Alexander of the Twin Falls Times-News Editorial Board. More here .

Question: Do you have a better/lesser opinion of U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch for being part of the Republican U.S. senators who wrote the controversial letter to Iran recently?