So never in our history has the Veep had to break a tie, with 50 voting “no” (including three Senators from Tangerine 2.0’s own GOP party!) — on any Defense Sec’y. nominee.

Never. Until tonight.

When he implodes (and he will… implode) — Hinderaker, his malfeasance is on your account.

Full stop. Let us just hope his incompetence (or drunkenness, or lewd public behavior or forcible assaults) don’t somehow provoke another hot war — one that gets US troops killed.

Let’s hope he won’t try to run Defense at all. Let’s hope he just crawls inside a bottle at the office by noon every day, and sleeps it off all afternoon — 52 weeks a year. [Until Tangerine fires him — for some likely imaginary slight, that is. You know that’s how this will end, if you’re honest.]

I mean c’mon man — he bankrupted the small charity he ran — with 100 staffers. He’s now the head of 2.8 million employees, including over 1.29 million active servicemen and women… and must administer the largest single component of the federal deficit. Damn.

Out.