>The Senate Rules Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to advance a resolution that would allow Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to confirm more than 350 military promotions being held up by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) in a single package.
>The resolution, however, would not apply to nominees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff or commanders nominated to lead combatant commands.
>The Rules panel’s 9-7 vote means Schumer can bring the resolution to the Senate floor, but it needs 60 votes to pass.
>“One member of the Senate, the senior senator from Alabama, has defied long-standing Senate custom and prevented the swift bipartisan confirmation of hundreds of generals and flag officers,” Schumer, a member of the Rules Committee, said before the vote. “What Sen. Tuberville [is doing] is truly an anomaly that does much harm and requires a response.”
>Schumer added, “If my Republican colleagues can’t convince Sen. Tuberville to relent, I will bring it to the floor shortly for a vote.”
>“We need to get these military nominees confirmed ASAP for the sake of our national security,” he said.
Straight down party lines. The Republican Party is anti-military.
Let’s see how pro-military the Rs are.
This has nothing to do with the military providing travel expenses for service members that need an abortion. These hundreds of positions are being left vacant are so they’re available for the next Republican administration to fill, and it’s all part of Project 2025. This is why McConnell is against this resolution, and this is why Democrats in the senate won’t get the required 10 Republican votes it would take to pass it.
I realize the above sounds like it could find a warm home on /r/conspiracy, but I genuinely believe this and feel there’s plenty of things pointing to this being the case.
How can one old white guy have so much power?
Finally! Strip this guy’s power.
See? This wasn’t just Tuberville. This was the entire GOP Senate Caucus – holding up National Security for a special interest.
People should call Tuberville’s office in Florida and complain.
This hold is a transparent attempt by republicans to keep these positions open so Trump can fill them with loyalists.
When republicans refused to fill a Supreme Court seat the dems did not do all they could to fight back. In particular they did not force the issue to the Supreme Court. The results were devastating.
This feels the same. This problem has been outstanding for far too long and this proposal fails to cover the key positions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and commanders nominated to lead combatant commands.
So every Republican that tells you they don’t agree with this and they wish it would end (for whatever reason), is a liar. But I repeat myself.
So why do they need 60 votes? Republicans have REPEATEDLY abused the Senate rules panel to make changes with a simple majority (when there was an R majority in the senate). Why aren’t the democrats using the same mechanisms?
Tubi is a Putin asset.
There, I said it…
Republicans show their true colors yet again. It might be red white, and blue, but there are no stars on this flag.
“We’re mad at Tuberville, we want him to stop, but we won’t take any steps to go around him because that means helping the Democrats”
Putin smiles every time the GOP halts our military.
They won’t get the 60 votes, because the gqp actually supports tuber, and his hold
So pissed off enough to consider the option, but either not pissed enough to do something about it, or just too chicken shit to have their voters see them working with a Democrat. Disgraceful either way and a giant waste of taxpayer money.
Meaning the Republicans are all complicit. It’s not just him. They all deserve to be loudly condemned.
Holding out as much as they can for their Dear Leader, just like McConnell did with Obama’s SCOTUS nomination.
I saw something disturbing last week that, had it been 10 years ago, I would have brushed it aside. But in the environment we’re in, I had to give it some credence.
That Tuberville may be assisting with the conservative 2025 project where they have prescreened conservative sycophants to fill positions of power in the federal government and military to help Trump or another future conservative President with consolidating power.
Again, I would not have taken this seriously years ago, but the plan is no joke. Conservatives want to deconstruct the administrative state, send in the military against our own citizens — remember the White House meeting with Trump and others where it was suggested the military seize voting machines — expand executive power, and crush the separation of powers. This has been a long-standing goal.
The only thing standing between democracy and these nuts is the vote.
This guy represents the majority of the state of Alabama, and is acting in its interest. The government should start closing military bases and centers in Alabama and moving them out of state, citing the states disdain for the military.
I’d like to see Biden address the nation and call out Tuberville on this crap. Then play the video from that non-stop in campaigns come next November up and down the ballot.
Feel free to send him a message just like I did… spoilers it wasnt a nice one.
They won’t go for it. What, and get primaried? Their voters are pro military but they are more pro-GQP.
McConnell opposes getting it through, so it will fail. At least they’re showing their whole asses as an entire party, not that anybody will notice.
Mitch “Foghorn Leghorn” McConnell is talking out of both side of his mouth. That turd is responsible for much of the misery in this country right now. He only says what he thinks people want to hear. He is as much responsible for Trump continuing to be the menace to this country as the House. Screw him and his POS party
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>The Senate Rules Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to advance a resolution that would allow Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to confirm more than 350 military promotions being held up by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) in a single package.
>The resolution, however, would not apply to nominees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff or commanders nominated to lead combatant commands.
>The Rules panel’s 9-7 vote means Schumer can bring the resolution to the Senate floor, but it needs 60 votes to pass.
>“One member of the Senate, the senior senator from Alabama, has defied long-standing Senate custom and prevented the swift bipartisan confirmation of hundreds of generals and flag officers,” Schumer, a member of the Rules Committee, said before the vote. “What Sen. Tuberville [is doing] is truly an anomaly that does much harm and requires a response.”
>Schumer added, “If my Republican colleagues can’t convince Sen. Tuberville to relent, I will bring it to the floor shortly for a vote.”
>“We need to get these military nominees confirmed ASAP for the sake of our national security,” he said.
Straight down party lines. The Republican Party is anti-military.
Let’s see how pro-military the Rs are.
This has nothing to do with the military providing travel expenses for service members that need an abortion. These hundreds of positions are being left vacant are so they’re available for the next Republican administration to fill, and it’s all part of Project 2025. This is why McConnell is against this resolution, and this is why Democrats in the senate won’t get the required 10 Republican votes it would take to pass it.
I realize the above sounds like it could find a warm home on /r/conspiracy, but I genuinely believe this and feel there’s plenty of things pointing to this being the case.
How can one old white guy have so much power?
Finally! Strip this guy’s power.
See? This wasn’t just Tuberville. This was the entire GOP Senate Caucus – holding up National Security for a special interest.
People should call Tuberville’s office in Florida and complain.
This hold is a transparent attempt by republicans to keep these positions open so Trump can fill them with loyalists.
When republicans refused to fill a Supreme Court seat the dems did not do all they could to fight back. In particular they did not force the issue to the Supreme Court. The results were devastating.
This feels the same. This problem has been outstanding for far too long and this proposal fails to cover the key positions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and commanders nominated to lead combatant commands.
So every Republican that tells you they don’t agree with this and they wish it would end (for whatever reason), is a liar. But I repeat myself.
So why do they need 60 votes? Republicans have REPEATEDLY abused the Senate rules panel to make changes with a simple majority (when there was an R majority in the senate). Why aren’t the democrats using the same mechanisms?
Tubi is a Putin asset.
There, I said it…
Republicans show their true colors yet again. It might be red white, and blue, but there are no stars on this flag.
“We’re mad at Tuberville, we want him to stop, but we won’t take any steps to go around him because that means helping the Democrats”
Putin smiles every time the GOP halts our military.
They won’t get the 60 votes, because the gqp actually supports tuber, and his hold
So pissed off enough to consider the option, but either not pissed enough to do something about it, or just too chicken shit to have their voters see them working with a Democrat. Disgraceful either way and a giant waste of taxpayer money.
Meaning the Republicans are all complicit. It’s not just him. They all deserve to be loudly condemned.
Holding out as much as they can for their Dear Leader, just like McConnell did with Obama’s SCOTUS nomination.
I saw something disturbing last week that, had it been 10 years ago, I would have brushed it aside. But in the environment we’re in, I had to give it some credence.
That Tuberville may be assisting with the conservative 2025 project where they have prescreened conservative sycophants to fill positions of power in the federal government and military to help Trump or another future conservative President with consolidating power.
Again, I would not have taken this seriously years ago, but the plan is no joke. Conservatives want to deconstruct the administrative state, send in the military against our own citizens — remember the White House meeting with Trump and others where it was suggested the military seize voting machines — expand executive power, and crush the separation of powers. This has been a long-standing goal.
The only thing standing between democracy and these nuts is the vote.
This guy represents the majority of the state of Alabama, and is acting in its interest. The government should start closing military bases and centers in Alabama and moving them out of state, citing the states disdain for the military.
I’d like to see Biden address the nation and call out Tuberville on this crap. Then play the video from that non-stop in campaigns come next November up and down the ballot.
Feel free to send him a message just like I did… spoilers it wasnt a nice one.
https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/contact-old/contact-form/
They won’t go for it. What, and get primaried? Their voters are pro military but they are more pro-GQP.
McConnell opposes getting it through, so it will fail. At least they’re showing their whole asses as an entire party, not that anybody will notice.
Mitch “Foghorn Leghorn” McConnell is talking out of both side of his mouth. That turd is responsible for much of the misery in this country right now. He only says what he thinks people want to hear. He is as much responsible for Trump continuing to be the menace to this country as the House. Screw him and his POS party