Can we all just acknowledge that Coach Tuberville is helping Iran?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

12 CENTCOM posts affected by Tuberville block could hamper US aid to Israel, lawmakers say

Twelve senior military positions that help lead U.S. forces in the Middle East are caught in Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on military nominees, and some lawmakers fear the understaffing will impact U.S. support to Israel.

The posts in U.S. Central Command, including the deputy commander and the commander of the Navy’s 5th Fleet, are either being held by temporary commanders, junior officers or officers doing two jobs at once, said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.

“As we reposition our own forces and support our ally Israel with intelligence, logistics and other assistance, we need U.S. leadership to be as strong and focused as possible,” Kelly, a former naval aviator, said Thursday. “This hamstrings our regional military leadership during a crisis. Period.”

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

Tlaib endorsement incoming

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I didn't know the OP was Sean Hannity.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     God willing the Pentagon caves soon and rescinds its policy of funding travel for abortion.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

     God willing the Pentagon caves soon and rescinds its policy of funding travel for abortion.

God only knows that we can only conquer the scourge of Shia Islamic theocracy by scrambling a few more perfectly good babies!

[Dr. MB]

Critical support to Tommy Tuberville in his one-man stand against American imperialism

[HillGoose]

he is a COMMUNIST who should move to RED CHINA if he will now allow for our nation to DEFEND GLOBAL DEMOCRACY regardless of if he disagrees with particular pentagon policies or not

[Sol]

Honestly this is the best of both worlds; service members are able to get abortions easily and accesibly and the U.S. military becomes less effective and less attractive as a career path. Tommy Tubberville is doing great work and hopefully an antiwar Democrat does this after him!

[Fuzzy Bear]

If these promotions are so "mission-critical", Biden needs to make the compromise now and drop the policy of funding travel for abortion.  If it's THAT important, then, by all means, give up a fringe policy for the "mission-critical" promotions.

I suspect these promotions are far from urgent; they are, more likely, rewards for those the military wishes to reward.  The military is not beyond politics.  The thread title is more Excessive Hyperbole from Runeghost, who is good for little more than Excessive Hyperbole.

[GoTfan]

I still think he's working with Trump to keep positions open so Trump can install loyalists.

[Alben Barkley]

If these promotions are so "mission-critical", Biden needs to make the compromise now and drop the policy of funding travel for abortion.  If it's THAT important, then, by all means, give up a fringe policy for the "mission-critical" promotions.

I suspect these promotions are far from urgent; they are, more likely, rewards for those the military wishes to reward.  The military is not beyond politics.  The thread title is more Excessive Hyperbole from Runeghost, who is good for little more than Excessive Hyperbole.

Way to once again blame Democrats for Republican terrorism and hostage-taking.

Honestly this kind of thing is just absolutely pathetic. Sounds like the Hamas and Russian sympathizers actually, "Just give in to their demands! It's actually YOUR FAULT for everything bad that happens if you don't!"

Despicable.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tuberville-blocks-100s-military-nominees-digging-heels-dod/story?id=104790018

Tuberville has objected to moving nominees as large groups, but he has said he won't prevent the Senate from moving nominees individually. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has always had the power to bring nominees up for consideration on a one-by-one basis, but he has be resistant to do so except for some high-profile nominees, citing concern about politicizing the military.

Kaine, following in the vein of a similar effort by Republican Sens. Joni Ernst and Dan Sullivan last week, tried to push Tuberville on this point in two separate days of floor actions. In both instances, the senators went to the Senate floor and tried to move nominees one by one, asking each time for the unanimous agreement of all 100 senators for their confirmation.

This proved to be insufficient for Tuberville, who said he wants the nominees moved through regular order.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

Again, why do we need the Senate to approve of a promotion in the military in the first place?

[GeorgiaModerate]

Is there any possibility Tuberville gets a serious primary challenge over this?

[brucejoel99]

Again, why do we need the Senate to approve of a promotion in the military in the first place?

Once upon a time, a few bros in powdered wigs wanted to ensure that they could sip on smuggled Dutch tea instead of British tea unabated & now the rest of us are forced to watch in horror as a sh*tty football coach exercises his constitutional right to destroy our military.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

Again, why do we need the Senate to approve of a promotion in the military in the first place?

Once upon a time, a few bros in powdered wigs wanted to ensure that they could sip on smuggled Dutch tea instead of British tea unabated & now the rest of us are forced to watch in horror as a sh*tty football coach exercises his constitutional right to destroy our military.

[brucejoel99]

Is there any possibility Tuberville gets a serious primary challenge over this?

Black Hawk Down hero pilot Mike Durant, an airman who learned to fly at Ft. Rucker, could be primed for this after finishing 3rd behind Britt & Brooks last yr. (but also kinda blew a lot of his ALGOP bridges when he negatively polarized into refusing to endorse either of them in the runoff lol)

[ProudModerate2]

If these promotions are so "mission-critical", Biden needs to make the compromise now and drop the policy of funding travel for abortion.  If it's THAT important, then, by all means, give up a fringe policy for the "mission-critical" promotions.

I never thought you would stoop-so-low, as to promote such a pro-hostage position.
Yuk. (What the Hell is wrong with you?)

[Fuzzy Bear]

If these promotions are so "mission-critical", Biden needs to make the compromise now and drop the policy of funding travel for abortion.  If it's THAT important, then, by all means, give up a fringe policy for the "mission-critical" promotions.

I never thought you would stoop-so-low, as to promote such a pro-hostage position.
Yuk. (What the Hell is wrong with you?)

This happens all the time; people bottling up stuff that's (A) not really all that important for the common weal, but (B) REALLY important to someone who owes a political debt or wants to reward a favored crony.  None of these promotions are essential to the defense of the country, but all of them represent granting favor by someone to someone else.  With each promotion, one becomes somewhat beholden to another, and another is discharged of a "debt" of a sort.  (Yes, there's politics galore in military promotions.)

Of course, if this IS a matter of national crisis, than Joe Biden could end the crisis by rescinding the policy of paying the expenses of military members to go to other states to receive abortions.  Such reimbursement for airfare is neither a right nor an entitlement.  If this is THAT important, Joe can take the loss for the greater good.

This is a tempest in a teapot.  It's pure politics.  Democrats do this on issues where they can as well as Republicans; it's called "Leverage".  You may not like it, but this is how Congress works.  And such maneuvers have kept more than one bad idea from becoming law over the decades.

[Fuzzy Bear]

If these promotions are so "mission-critical", Biden needs to make the compromise now and drop the policy of funding travel for abortion.  If it's THAT important, then, by all means, give up a fringe policy for the "mission-critical" promotions.

I suspect these promotions are far from urgent; they are, more likely, rewards for those the military wishes to reward.  The military is not beyond politics.  The thread title is more Excessive Hyperbole from Runeghost, who is good for little more than Excessive Hyperbole.

Way to once again blame Democrats for Republican terrorism and hostage-taking.

Honestly this kind of thing is just absolutely pathetic. Sounds like the Hamas and Russian sympathizers actually, "Just give in to their demands! It's actually YOUR FAULT for everything bad that happens if you don't!"

Despicable.

"Terrorism"  "Hostage-Taking"  You are insane to use that talk.  And to compare Tuberville to Hamas is Excessive Hyperbole if there ever was such a case.

The Rules of each House of Congress gives all sorts of leverage to committee and subcommittee chairs.  This gives these people great power, but it also gives them the ability to block BAD ideas from becoming law.  It's how it works.

This is how a republican (small "r") form of government actually works.  This is our Constitutional form of government at work.  If it doesn't seem like "democracy", it's because we're a REPUBLIC, and not a "Democracy".  And in our Constitutional Republic, each House of Congress makes its own rules.  This is using leverage; it's politics, pure and simple.  "Politics" is the process by which the people's business is conducted.  This is part of it, and those we elect haven't seen fit to eliminate this feature.

[Ferguson97]

If these promotions are so "mission-critical", Biden needs to make the compromise now and drop the policy of funding travel for abortion.  If it's THAT important, then, by all means, give up a fringe policy for the "mission-critical" promotions.

I never thought you would stoop-so-low, as to promote such a pro-hostage position.
Yuk. (What the Hell is wrong with you?)

This happens all the time; people bottling up stuff that's (A) not really all that important for the common weal, but (B) REALLY important to someone who owes a political debt or wants to reward a favored crony.  None of these promotions are essential to the defense of the country, but all of them represent granting favor by someone to someone else.  With each promotion, one becomes somewhat beholden to another, and another is discharged of a "debt" of a sort.  (Yes, there's politics galore in military promotions.)

Of course, if this IS a matter of national crisis, than Joe Biden could end the crisis by rescinding the policy of paying the expenses of military members to go to other states to receive abortions.  Such reimbursement for airfare is neither a right nor an entitlement.  If this is THAT important, Joe can take the loss for the greater good.

This is a tempest in a teapot.  It's pure politics.  Democrats do this on issues where they can as well as Republicans; it's called "Leverage".  You may not like it, but this is how Congress works.  And such maneuvers have kept more than one bad idea from becoming law over the decades.

You forfeit the right to ever claim you care about the troops or veterans.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Doug Jones Shou of been reelected