Without realizing it, Ted Cruz goes all Funkadelic on us and tells it like it is

Ted Cruz accidentally explained America’s gun problem in one sentence.  (Vox, 11/6/2017)

"You Hit the Nail on the Head" is the opening cut on Funkadelic's appropriately named -- for present purposes -- double album America Eats Its Young, which debuted on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for the week ending June 17, 1972.  It spent 15 weeks on the chart, peaking at #123.