Today the United States Senate broke with 200+ years of tradition, and not in a good way. By a vote of 40 to 58, they failed to invoke cloture in the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense. That’s fancy Senate-speak for not being able to force an up and down vote on the nomination. Cloture votes typically occur when Senate is trying to overcome a filibuster by the minority. According to Senator Graham, this wasn’t really a filibuster, just a delay.

Looks like, quacks like, you know the rest.

Six Republican senators, including John McCain and previous Marketing Dept. inductee, Lindsey Graham, claimed they would not support a filibuster. Four of them, including McCain and Graham, then went back on their word.

Thanks to the following persons, the Senate went into recess on a historic low.¹.

While every on this list qualifies as Kneebiter, I believe that, for being a two-faced liar when he could have prevented this nonsense, John McCain joins his buddy Senator Graham in the Marketing Dept. of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

1. Harry Reid opposed the filibuster but changed his vote to support it as a procedural matter for reasons that probably no one outside the Senate understands [↩]