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?”

  • WagesOf@artemis.camp
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    1 year ago

    So you admit that the senate could do it if they wanted to without any republican support. And you’re also claiming that it’s not worth scheduling ANY individual position fill votes and better to just let one dumbshit destroy our military leadership because the dems can blame it on the republicans.

    I’m not going to lie and claim that dems are perfect and theres no time to line up 400 votes (each of which takes approx 20 minutes) in the YEARS this bullshit has been blocked just in case some low information dumbfuck who would never have voted for not facism anyway.

    Are you really claiming that there’s no time or circumstances when those who can work around an obstruction simply refuse to do so have to start sharing the blame?

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      1 year ago

      You ignored the substantive part of my response. And I don’t understand what your point is. I actually don’t understand your comment at all.