Pentagon officials have been frustrated for months over an Alabama senator’s blockade of more than 300 senior military nominations. But after the Marine Corps chief was hospitalized over the weekend, that frustration is turning into rage.
Gen. Eric Smith had been filling both the No. 1 and No. 2 Marine Corps posts from July until he was finally confirmed as commandant in September. He, along with more than 300 other senior officers, was swept up in the promotions blockade put in place by GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville in protest of the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy.
In an interview Wednesday, Tuberville brushed off the comments from the DOD officials.
“They’re looking for someone to blame it on, other than themselves,” he said. “We could have all these people confirmed if they’d have just gone by the Constitution.
“I don’t listen to these people,” he added. “They’re just looking for any possible way to get themselves out of a jam.”
I agree. Schumer as much as admitted that he refused to bring the promotions to the floor because the Dems was to apply political ressure to Tuberville. They want the Republicans to look bad, and get tagged as opposing our armed forced. They let the Tommy Tumor grow and fester and now it’s unmanageable. They could have been bypassing him for months.
It’s never a Republican’s fault. Always. Everyone else’s around them. There may be more democrats could do. But this falls squarely on Tubervils shoulder.
Let me tell you the story of the scorpion and the frog.
The scorpion wants to punish women for having sex because he believes that if he is cruel enough, he gets to hang out with his invisible friend, who happens to be the creator of the universe, after the scorpion dies.
The frog could stop the scorpion from making people suffer, but the frog needs votes and donations to stay in power, and nothing motivates donors and voters like hatred. The woodland creatures who support the frog hate the scorpion, so the frog ignores the scorpion while complaining that there’s nothiny he can do.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/01/politics/schumer-tuberville-military-nominations/index.html
I neve said it wasn’t Tuberville’s fault. I’m frustrated that the Senate Democrats didn’t just go around him because they wanted the political pressure to grow.
Storytelling is not your thing.
I actually thought it was an interesting take on an old parable. The frog might actually be another scorpion though. And the woodland creatures secretly support both scorpions to ensure that neither one stings them.
Perhaps not.
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I dunno you seemed awfully ready to blame democrats for not dropping all other Senate business. To hold hundreds of cloture votes to work through the backlog of better part of a decade. Which is a bit of a ridiculous ask. When it would make much more sense for A. the Republicans to a do their job or for B. Ranking Republicans to do their job and revoke his committee status. Replacing him with another Republican willing to do the job.
Because let’s be clear here. Someone who would seek to blame democrats for not doing something to resolve this. Would just as disingenuously blame democrats for dropping all the actual things they were supposed to be doing just to take care of all the things one senator has blocked. Because it’s not just one senator. It’s all Republicans. They could replace Tuberville on any committee if they wanted to. They don’t want to.
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The GOP could kick Tuberville out. But they won’t so they are part of the problem
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The dems could also just confirm these hundreds of people unilaterally in a single batch, but they won’t so they are the actual problem.
This is a troll post from someone trying to push disinformation.
I’m a troll? Fuck off.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/01/politics/schumer-tuberville-military-nominations/index.html
The Senate Democrats have been allowing the backlog to grow for months, for the stated reason of adding political pressure on Tuberville.
Here’s an article from September where they admit they can bypass Tuberville.
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2023/09/21/dems-weigh-batch-votes-to-bypass-tuberville-for-remaining-nominees/
Here’s an article from July where they admit they don’t want to bypass Tuberville because it wouldn’t be expedient.
https://apnews.com/article/tuberville-military-holds-senate-officers-45c4230a8aee5222bf32b43823e29acc
And yet he’s done fuck all about it, because it would take “months” to do with floor votes. He said that 4 months ago.
Tuberville is the villain here, there’s no doubt. He’s a loathesome piece of shit that demeans the office he holds.
Chuck Schumer is the Senate Majority Leader. Where is the leadership? Where is the majority? They don’t need the House at all, they can confirm Biden’s nominees and promotions all say long. It’s not like they’ve been busy, what with the catastrophe that is the House of Representatives. This is the one thing they could be doing, and they haven’t because not doing it makes Republicans look worse than they do. It’s craven politics, and it’s a waste of my vote. They’re going to lose the Senate in the next election, and it won’t matter that Biden keeps the White House. He’ll be the first president in history to spend 8 years as a lame duck.
Fucking neoliberal bullshit.
LOL I didn’t and won’t read your reply (not worth the time). It’s pretty clear that I hit close to home.
You’re right. You got me riled up. You didn’t present an argument, attacked me personally, and then refused to engage or defend your accusations.
But I’m the troll.
You’re right! I didn’t present an argument to you. I wasn’t talking to you. I was warning others to ignore you.
Fuck off, troll.