[CatherineofAragon]

Cruz continues to demonstrate that he will not be intimidated into spouting the politically correct GOP-e mantra.

[Ben Ficklin]

I think Cruz is talking about Helms' long tenure on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Much of the conflict is how that committee is voting on Syria.

Back in May the 15 to 3 vote to arm the Syrian rebels, and then most recently the 10 to 8 vote to bomb Syria.

All the experience on the committee is gone. Helms, Biden, Lugar, Kerry, Dodd.

Now you have Corker in the GOP chair and he hasn't been the Senate/on the committee very long, and just months as minority chairman.

We have a very inexperienced Congress with the big turnover in 2006, 2008, 2010.

It is foolish to let Congress make this decision, because many/most of them don't know squat about foreign policy.