Tuberville, who’s singlehandedly blocked hundreds of military promotions in protest over the Pentagon’s abortion policies, said he’s not going to change his mind and doesn’t care that people aren’t being promoted.
After the US Supreme Court reversed decades of precedent in overturning its decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion access case in 2022, the Pentagon announced its plan to reimburse service members who need to travel out-of-state to receive abortion services.
Tuberville, a Republican senator out of Alabama, took exception to the decision and said he’d use his power to stymie any military nominations and promotions he could. Since February, he’s blocked more than 300 promotions.
Now that it’s impacting military readiness the executive has made it possible for those awaiting promotion to act in the role that they will eventually have. So, effectively, what Tuberville is doing is removing Senate oversight from the process. It’s a self-own and he’s super proud of it.
At least he’s consistent with his party’s stance on hating both the military and the US
But Republicans praise the army, don’t they?
Praise is different than support.
We’re talking about hate / do not hate
They hate them too, don’t forget how fast they turned on the police who arrested jan 6 insurgents
Is there a way for USA to have more than two political parties?
I think when you have two only it’s become unreliable to base any generalised assumption about a party member.
Only with ranked choice voting, otherwise the math our system forces on us makes it impossible. A successful third party will just devour one of the other two within a few years.
They praise bills they voted against during ribbon cutting ceremonies
Remove this this stupid fuck from office.
What a smug ass. A true representation of his constitutes.
I cant help but to have noticed a lot of places on Lemmy where autocorrect has clearly gone wrong. We need a phone keyboard that produces options and a squiggly when it wants to correct something, maybe. I turned off my autocorrect for that reason, which raises its own set of problems lol.
no offense intended, of course <3
s/constitutes/constituents, likely.
Going from beloved coach to detested political trash. Way to destroy your legacy.
I think you misspelled piece of shit.
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And worse, it’s a tantrum about white supremacy, he’s punishing the military for trying to push these terrorists out of their ranks.
I wonder what his constituency thinks. I mean, the ones with more than 2 brain cells to rub together. Surely his phones should be ringing off the hook. I know he doesn’t care but I hope there’s some noise being made
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Exactly. I understand the impulse, but catching them in a contradiction is pointless because they have no actual principles.
I mean, the ones with more than 2 brain cells to rub together.
He’s from Alabama if that answers your question. Congress is on summer recess, he’s been back in Alabama at various events, and the reports I’ve seen is that he’s had a hero’s welcome.
In Alabama the only shot a Dem has of winning in a Senate seat is of the Republican is a literal pedophile, and even then just barely as we’ve seen. A Republican Senator’s only real risk is a primary from the right. This kind of bullshit plays well with the Republican base. So here we are.
Dems need to force this issue, either hold a vote to change the rule allowing quick passage of promotions, or start having 20 hour a day sessions 7 days a week to vote on each promotion individually. All this complaining about Tubberville and the harm he’s causing the military only plays into his hand of allowing him to cast himself as the lone warrior against the godless woke whatever the fuck.
They apparently don’t even care that he doesn’t even live in Alabama. It’s also very telling when a man insists on being referred to as “coach” instead of “senator”.
Coach as in, “Coach, I have a cramp in my leg right here. No, not there. A little higher.” That kind of coach?
That kind of coach
You might be thinking of Jim Jordan.
That’s Gym Jordan to you, son.
He hates the people they hate. That’s more important to them than supporting the military, which they claim to do.
We’re all aware that republicans don’t give a fuck about optics but this is a really bad look for them. Tommy Teletubbie is truly trying to destroy America for the sake of Trump and Russia and Republicans are letting him do it.
He’s an ass, but this isn’t single-handed. He only has this power because his fellow Republicans (and Manchin, and probably Sinema) are allowing it. If a handful of Republicans wanted to fix this, they absolutely could.
From an NPR article:
Why don’t the Senate leaders stop him?
The current Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has made it clear he considers Tuberville’s blockade an abuse and an outrage. The GOP’s McConnell has also said he does not support the “blanket hold” on military nominations. Both have acknowledged the pleas coming from the Pentagon and from the ranks, and they have done what they could to encourage Tuberville to stand down.
But the leaders cannot simply bulldoze the senator from Alabama. Their power is restrained by Senate rules and traditions and by the sentiments of their respective caucuses.
If the issue here were an ordinary piece of legislation, the leaders would seek a unanimous consent agreement that would bring that matter to the floor. Individual senators may object to that with a notice that they seek “extended debate” on that legislation. This is an implicit threat to filibuster, and the majority leader routinely files a cloture petition and holds a vote.
If cloture fails, the legislation does not go to the floor. If three-fifths of the Senate supports cloture, the legislation can be brought to the floor with time limits on debate.
Presidential nominations have been largely exempt from this since 2013 when a Democratic Senate majority decided only nominations to the Supreme Court would be subject to filibusters. In 2017, a Republican majority decided to extend that exemption to include Supreme Court nominations.
Nonetheless, Tuberville’s maneuver has the effect of freezing confirmations for the current backlog presidential nominations because they are submitted in batches for group consideration and approval. The batching procedure itself requires unanimous consent, allowing even one senator to stand in the way.
The Senate majority leader could bring the nominations to the floor one by one for consideration by regular procedure, but that would require two to three days for each. Had the Senate tried to individually process even the first 150 promotions Tuberville blocked back in February, it could have done little else in the months since – and it would still be far behind on confirmations. That is scarcely practical when the military alone submits hundreds a year and the larger executive branch far more.
Moreover, just as the Pentagon bristles at having a single senator dictate its personnel policy, so the Senate leaders are loath to have individual senators deciding when and if the Senate can proceed with normal business using its usual procedures – such as the batching of nominations.
So fucking take them to the floor one by one and do the damn thing. It’s not like you’re legislating anyway with a Republican House.
Republicans are the biggest batch of corrupt pussies I’ve seen in my fucking life.
Translation: there’s nothing really stopping us from going around Tuberville, but we feel the senate’s stupid arcane rules are more important than national security and having responsible people in charge if Trump tries to do a coup again.
Literally. Oh, it’s too long to do it one by one? Maybe prioritize then? Confirm 2-3 of the biggest promotions in order to prevent the Senate from abdicating it’s Constitutional responsibility and ceding control of the military entirely to the executive.
I really don’t care about US military readiness but I do value checks and balances, and right now the Senate is refusing to serve as one.
You know what happens when I have a lot of work to do and not enough time in the workday? I stay late. I work weekends. I drink a lot of coffee and get that shit done.
“It takes too long”? Fuck you, keep the Senate in session and do nomination after nomination until these geriatric fucks pass out.
Seriously! If I worked the same way these idiots do, my entire organization would grind to a halt.
…oooohhhhhhhhhh
How the fuck does it take two or three days to promote one person? Holy shit the Senate is such a useless organization.
I can’t believe they’re tolerating this unacceptable shit in the name of decorum. The Senate needs to be eliminated as an institution.
Maybe we should just draft this fucker and send him on a Middle East deployment as a private.
GOP: How could Joe Biden do this to our troops?
You mean “why would Hunter’s laptop do this?”
Wow, he looks as much like a smug cunt as he acts.
He’s leaning into that look so much, he looks like the bad guy from a children’s movie.
Why are other republicans quiet on this one? Why they don’t tell Tubertool to fuck himself and vote on those promotions?
Entire GOP is complicit in destroying the military preparedness. Republicans all are harming the armed forces, Tubertool is just a tool they are using.
Because no republicans currently in office have any reason to attack him since they aren’t running against him.
And because I’m sure this both saves the government a couple nickels and them a couple approvals.
This absolutely does not save the government/taxpayers any money, quite the opposite. When they lose qualified staff to attrition over bullshit like this, it’s very expensive to replace them. And given enough time, it will start to impact military readiness across the board, if it hasn’t already.
Oh of course, it’s similar to continuously repaving roads every twenty years using materials that cost half as much as those that last a century. You “save money” on the budgets that you sign. Consequences be damned.
Well that would require telling their fellow Russian assets to stop harming the U.S. and we can’t have that!
Because someone is undermining the ability of the Biden administration to do things, and when it is reported most people will juat blame Biden instead of paying attention to the actual problem.
Not doing anything benefits the Republicans.
Man pledges to continue destroying lives, 300 already claimed.
Tommy Tuberville sounds like some kind if ringmaster to a potato circus
Haha very accurate
I believe that there is an active conspiracy to destroy the USA from within and this is proof of that. Follow the money and you’ll uncover who is behind it. My guess, China, Russia and maybe some Oligarchs around that.
And, not a mention of Mossad and Israel? C’mon man
Why would Isreal want to destroy their biggest international aid donor?
Yeah, Israeli intelligence services attempting to nerf the USA in any way makes about as much sense as New Zealand conspiring against Australia or the DRK dealing the PRC a bad hand. Aren’t we the ones keeping Israel’s tactical nuke program an unofficial one with like blocking UN votes or something? Israel has nukes, so do the Saudis, but like internationally it’s like unrecognized because US foreign policy won’t acknowledge it.
Now for this it would preachers. Find his donor list
Don’t forget the Saudis
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