A GOOD RULE OF THUMB

New Jersey has a new Senator.

Menendez pledged to serve the interests of working families and called for affordable health care and middle-class tax breaks. The father of two also criticized the war in Iraq.

"I pledge to you that I will never send New Jerseyans into a war that I would be unwilling to send my own son or daughter to fight," he said."

Wish the chickenhawks would follow such a guideline.