Who could have ever guessed that a dumbfuck football coach from Alabama wouldn’t be a great pick for the senate?
You remember when McConnell held up all Obama’s judicial picks, then opened the floodgates when they could stack the courts with conservative judges? That’s exactly what Tuberville is doing with the military.
Makes sense. Journalists act like “tuberville is doing this all by himself!”… but he has the support of every Republican.
Not quite every Republican, at least based on their public statements. There are some Republicans who have come out very vocally against the holds. Conveniently for Coach, though, there are not yet enough Republican votes to get to a supermajority.
We’ll see if Chuck ever puts a rules change forward soon, that’s when we’ll know whether those Republicans are serious about the military, or whether Coach just gave them a hall pass to distract us all over the issue.
Unfortunately we know from past experience that they’re not serious about any useful thing, only power to accomplish things that are not good ideas.
Oh fuck, does that mean they’re trying to perform another coup and are planning it? That’s kind of what it sounds like you’re saying.
They don’t intend to let the next one fail.
Not Alabama voters, apparently.
Ah yes, the intellectual powerhouses in the 46th best
schoolstate for education.FWIW this is more a dunk on republicans. They want it this way, if you had an education you wouldn’t vote for them.
But it takes big smarts to be a coach!
Alabama voters are not exactly known for their great political picks.
As an Alabama alumni, I agree.
Tubervilles dumbass thinks he is making a name for himself, in very tragic fashion.
Member when The Dixie Chicks got cancelled because they spoke out against Bush & Iraq? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
But this fucking asshole tho…
Tuberville is working for #Putin, not “military families and retired service members”.
Not only that. He’s likely trying to pull what McConnell and the GOP did with the federal courts. He is laboring under the hope that Trump will win in 2024, so if he lets the number of vacancies grow until then, Trump could pack the armed forces with loyalists.
It won’t work quite like the courts, though. There are only a finite amount of senior military personnel who can even be nominated. The rules on this are pretty specific and rigid. I think they’d be sorely disappointed in the outcome of this is truly their objective. Additionally, they might be able to pack some positions, but the military isn’t just a thoughtless hivemind. It’s a huge apparatus with hundreds of thousands of personnel from all kinds of backgrounds, you can’t just turn and aim it back at the US and think it’s going to work out fine.
This is not Tuberville’s blockade. This is the conservatives’ blockade. They support and defend this blockade, so they should ALL own it.
I am an Alabama liberal/progressive. And I am ashamed that Tuberville was elected to run our government. He is a bigot and football coach. Shame on the voters to supported him.
I think Schumer will do the temporary rule change this week.
It’s a little fucking late!
I always like it when someone thinks it could be faster in Congress. Oh, my sweet, sweet child.
Really? Schumer couldn’t have made that rule change months ago? It’s a unilateral decision.
Schumer wanted to make this change weeks ago, which must go through the bipartisan rules committee. But, he wanted Republican buy in. McConnell asked him to allow Republicans to take a run at Tuberville first. Schumer allowed this only to have Tuberville object to his own caucus. Now there is no other way to go, and Tuberville will have all of the Senate tell him to fuck off.
Or the GOP is Lucy holding the football again and is going to torpedo the rule change.
Unlike House Republicans, Schumer knows how to count. I guess that’s more the Dem Whip, so Dick Durbin.
i would hope so. don’t have to count as high.
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A question for the ages. For that you have to look at the Senate calender and note floor work days. I know both the Senate and the House were not in session the week starting with Columbus day.
The GOP is stonewalling in hopes trump wins next year so he can immediately install loyalists.
Ding ding ding
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Washington — For veterans service organizations and military community and family support groups, the well-worn playbook for lobbying and advocacy isn’t working this time with Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
“Frankly, yes,” Mary Kaszynski, head of government relations for the VoteVets political action group told CBS News when asked if her advocacy organization has ceased efforts to directly lobby Tuberville.
A review by CBS News found veterans and military support groups have unleashed TV ads blistering Tuberville, worked to galvanize home state pressure in Alabama, launched petition drives — one of which has yielded 10,000 signatures opposing his tactics — arranged a fly-in of retired generals to advocate personally on Capitol Hill, and unveiled a letter-writing campaign from military members.
“It’s by far the biggest campaign we’ve ever done,” said Kate Marsh Lord, a spokeswoman for the Secure Families Initiative, a nonpartisan advocacy group for military spouses.
The advocates acknowledge these traditional tools — including the letters, petitions and ads — aren’t yet moving the meter on a pernicious type of gridlock in which one singular member of Congress is causing the impasse.
In a TikTok video recorded in July, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for America chief executive officer Alison Jaslow confronted Tuberville in a hallway on Capitol Hill.
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