Senate approves hundreds of military promotions after Republican senator ends blockade of nominees
Senate approves hundreds of military promotions after Republican senator ends blockade of nominees
The Senate has approved military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended blockade of nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy.
It's not for any 4 star generals. The Republicans still want to hold the senior leadership under their boot for a potential military involvement in the elections.
Before you decide to downvote me, this is openly called for by the orange dictator in training who has put pressure on the military. Gen Milley called him out for this
Only ten of those. They can get through those
They're going to sell this to the promoted troops as "that promotion that senator noob tube got you" to divide the military so they can kick off a real civil war, and guess who the military industrial complex is going to support in that war?
How are the actions of Sen. Tuberville not treasonous?
He was using the leverage available to him to make a political point. The problem is that we have a system that leaves military readiness open to the whims of a single politician, giving him the ability to do it.
On one hand, the republican nonsensical behavior is exposing a large array of weaknesses in our political system, which can enable proper change to strengthen it against these kinds of malicious exploits.
On the other hand, fat chance anybody actually does anything about that.
Who's gonna press charges?
His team has more moles in DOJ than the other team does
What he did wasn't illegal
Wait til you see Republicans take credit for the promotions.
I hope the FBI, the CIA, the DHS, and the DOJ are so far up Tuberville’s ass they can see his molars.
From above, nothing less will suffice
I don't care about military promotions but I do like to see regressives lose, so I guess this is good.
You should for the same reason you should care he's still holding up the more senior ranks, he's hoping to leave them vacant for Trump to fill with people loyal to him
Not advocating for this, but theoretically, couldn't a dem do the exact same thing if worst comes to worse and Trump did get elected?
Amen ✊😔
Congrats on accomplishing absolutely nothing but pissing off pretty much everyone but our rivals with your childish grand standing.
He did accomplish a thing. He single-handedly managed to compromise national security. With all the open positions, work wasn't able to get done and some people legit burnt out trying to do the work of many people.
Republicans are worthless traitor filth.
Their backpay should come out of the fucker's pockets.
You cannot back pay a rank that was never promoted unfortunately. We can simply garnish that senator's wages but he'd still make more money than his entire district from insider trading anyways
They told him that campaign season was coming up and his actions would hurt other GOPs.
He's a hero /s
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate in a single stroke Tuesday approved about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over his opposition to a Pentagon abortion policy.
Tuberville was blocking the nominations in opposition to Pentagon rules that allow travel reimbursement when a service member has to go out of state to get an abortion or other reproductive care.
President Joe Biden’s administration instituted the new rules after the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to an abortion, and some states have limited or banned the procedure.
The issue came to a head when U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith suffered a heart attack in October, just two days after he’d talked about the stress of the holds at a military conference.
Tuberville emerged from a closed-door luncheon with his GOP colleagues, saying “all of us are against a rule change in the Senate.” He was adamant that “we did the right thing for the unborn and for our military” by fighting back against executive overreach.
Sen. Jack Reed, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said after the vote that the first thing he wanted to do was to apologize to the hundreds of officers whose promotions were stalled.
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