Embrace the Suck

Is it just me or does it seem like every time Ted Cruz has a Great Idea, conservatives end up fractious and divided and fighting among ourselves for two weeks while events overtake us?

First it was the ultimately fruitless government shutdown Cruz midwifed in order to . . . well, I’m not sure exactly, and now it’s Cruz’s bizarre decision to turn a once-in-a-millennium summit of Middle Eastern Christian leaders — who face slaughter even as I write — into an extended riff on Zionism.