NYT: Maybe Menendez Should Forfeit His Chairmanship During This Investigation

NYT: Maybe Menendez Should Forfeit His Chairmanship During This Investigation

The smoke swirling around Sen. Bob Menendez's alleged scandals has grown so chokingly thick that even the editors of the New York Times are getting a tad antsy.  From a house editorial entitled "Mr. Menendez's Ethics Problem:"
 

Senator Robert Menendez was never a distinguished choice for chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the position he ascended to this month by virtue of seniority. Concerns about that quality gap have sharply escalated amid new disclosures about Mr. Menendez’s use of his position to advance the financial interests of...