Senate Republicans are starting to turn on Tommy Tuberville over his blockade of military promotions.
The Senate brought 61 individual nominees to the floor for a vote Wednesday night. Tuberville objected to all of them, tanking each officer’s promotion. He has repeatedly insisted that his blockade, a protest of the Department of Defense’s abortion policy, does not harm military readiness.
But his Republican colleagues were finally sick of hearing it. “No offense, but that’s just ridiculous,” Senator Dan Sullivan said. “He knows it. We all know it.”
Sullivan revealed that the military expects Tuberville’s blockade to affect 89 percent of all general officer positions, across all branches.
“Xi Jinping is loving this. So is Putin,” Sullivan said, referring to the presidents of China and Russia. “How dumb can we be, man?”
If the Republican party was fed up with this. They could revoke his committee memberships and replace him with someone else at any time. So you have to ask yourself. Are they fed up really? Or is this all just performative. And is he doing exactly what they want.
I’m of the opinion that the Senate ought to expel Tuberville and Menendez. Neither party has to lose a seat and then they can get back to doing their job.
I kinda like this line of thought, but it’s not completely tit-for-tat. Menendez isn’t re-electable, Tuberville is. So, dems would be giving up something they’re going to lose anyway, repubs would be giving up an incumbent.
It’s not perfect.
The end goal of all of this seems to be about giving a long list of military appointees for a potential Trump part 2 presidency. No doubt these military appointees would be seeded with people who would go along with another coup attempt. So, yeah, it’s just all part of the plan.
It’s not even specifically tied to Trump. It’s just fascist doing what fascists do. And every single one of them that isn’t calling for tubervils resignation is complicit. But yes they absolutely want loyal little soldiers. Who will not oppose the next potential further.
This still wouldn’t stop the hold, any single senator can place a hold on any motion. Normally the work around would be to just call a vote to proceed, but because others are literally hundreds of promotions on hold, it wouldn’t really be possible to hold individual votes on them all.
I think the GOP was hoping to not have to rock the boat of a trump loyalist, they’ve been trying to mend the schism between their radical and traditional members since Jan 6.
If and when he stops, whoever is in the next safest seat will just pick up the baton.
They operate under a thin veil of plausible deniability, but they’re all aware of the game they’re playing.
Yep, it’s fascism all the way down.
You hit the nail on the head