Eric Cantor Flirts with Treason

Andrew Sullivan highlights a shocking trend among GOP congressional leaders:

It is not the first time that this kind of direct attack on the president's ability to conduct foreign policy has occurred under this administration. John McCain and Joe Lieberman have gone abroad to assure Israel that they will undermine their own president to advance the interests of a foreign country in a critical diplomatic discussion with the US on that country's soil. But Eric Cantor has gone one further, openly bragging about something he once described as a felony.

Eric Cantor, a US lawmaker, has given assurances to the leadership of a foreign nation, namely Israel, that he and his fellow party members are putting Israeli interests ahead of those of their own Commander-in-Chief. The same US politicians who would, during the previous administration, accuse any critic of the President of being a traitor are now promising the leaders of another country that they will actively work against the American President.