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?”
His first mistake is thinking he can bring any type of “life ethics” into the american military.
They are literally the walking talking example of telling you to screw off lol.
I mean seriously, they have triple the swear word vocabulary of the average person. Not even the happiest and purest hearted of some coast guard CO is going to listen to him.
I haven’t been following this at all. What does he say he’s trying to accomplish with this?
He’s mad that female service members stationed where abortion is illegal, are able to apply for leave / reimbursement for travel to another state to get an abortion.
Just one more thing to keep in mind while youre voting next year.
Not even trying to be an edge lord or a treasonist here, asking in earnest…
He’s an outsider. Haven’t the movies taught us they’ll break his knee caps so he can’t make it to the Senate floor to do this?
So what are they planning to do about it? Oh, that’s right: nothing. I’d call the GOP useless except they’re clearly being used by someone.
