Ted Cruz, Princeton '92 and creepy bathrobe enthusiast, is really tired of all these nancyboys who run the military, insisting that there must be political reconciliation and trustbuilding to forge stability in Iraq. Is he gonna have to go over there and bloody up some jihadi ass himself?

Under "epically smarmy grandstanding pantomimes" in the dictionary, see Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who punked a conference crowd last night with some off-teleprompter shit-talk in order to score some points with his base of support on Twitter.