It Would Take 700 Hours Of Floor Time To Process All the Military Nominations Being Blocked By Tommy Tuberville, Report Says
It Would Take 700 Hours Of Floor Time To Process All the Military Nominations Being Blocked By Tommy Tuberville, Report Says
Sen. Tommy Tuberville is holding up more than 300 nominations to various positions within the Department of Defense.
If I were Biden, I'd draft an executive order, go on national TV, and explain the reason why I have to use emergency authorization to use an EO to make sure our military has the leaders it needs to be ready.
They want to play around? Chuck the ball immediately into their face full force and give Tubby another concussion.
I agree, but they won't because they'd rather have the talking point for the next election. "Conservatives are anti-armed forces" will be the spin. Something about interrupting your enemy when they are making a mistake.
It's dangerously stupid, of course, and conservative voters don't actually give a shit about the military.
Great. During next fascist government, republicans will use the exact same executive order to install ultra-MAGA goons on key military leadership positions.
In fact trump already tried something similar: remember how many senior positions in his administration were just “acting” traitors? Many times he replaced one acting person with other acting person. DHS leadership during his admin comes to mind as a great example of that.
Im sick of this 'if Dems do it Republicans will too.' Because if the Republicans could have already done that they would have already done it. The fact that the Dems have not done something yet is stopping zero Republicans from considering or attempting it. Its strange that you imagine a fascist government that wouldn't try to install maga goons simply because the ladt Dem president didn't install his goons. I just don't see that as plausible. So why not at least try to do something?
You argued against yourself.
You pointed out that the GOP doesn't wait for dems to do a thing before they do it, which is true. There's no reason for Biden to refrain from doing something that trump has done already
No the Republicans would not because the Senate can actually vote them down if they want to.
IMHO, if the president makes an appointment, the Senate is constitutionally required to give their opinion, or they forfeit the right for that appointment.
Moves like that would be good for everyone except the bad faith actors in government. It just takes politicians like Biden admitting how broken their neo liberal order is. And working under a new paradigm focused on solving problems, not leaving problems in place so they can pretend they want to fix things through their inspirational speeches and donation drives.
If I were Biden, I'd draft an executive order, go on national TV, and explain the reason why I have to use emergency authorization to use an EO to make sure our military has the leaders it needs to be ready.
I mean I hate Tubby as much as anyone and he is a piece of shit but that step is not necessary at all. Our military has the military leaders it needs and they're doing those jobs, they just don't have the requisite rank. It happens more often than you'd think.
Edit: If anyone disagrees with what I've said I'd love to discuss it with them.
Instead of constantly saying how "Tommy Tubervile" is blocking nominations, we should call out the conservatives entirely. They are 100% complicit. Stop letting them create internal scapegoats.
We need to be reminding voters that conservatives are doing this together.
Can't they just remove Tuberville from that committee? The fact they don't shows they are complicit.
They should remove him from the Senate entirely, since he's violating his oath of office on the daily.
For better or worse, removing a Senator is hard to do. The Senate would need two thirds of Senators to agree with this removal. Even if every Democrat agreed (and I'm even including Sinema and Manchin here), you'd still need 17 Republicans to vote for it.
Of course, it's a good thing that it's hard to do this. Otherwise, the next time Republicans controlled the Senate, they'd start kicking out Democrats one after another for the most idiotic of reasons.
It would take zero hours of floor time if they stopped letting individual senators have holds like we live in an era of serious, good faith governance.
18 weeks of work, with zero overtime or weekends. The horror.
Wonder what dirt Putin has on him. . .
I mean, what else are they doing? Grilling Zuck and Musk on AI? Might as well be talking to the head of the CEO of the American Medical Association about neurosurgery techniques. There's 2087 federal work hours in a year; put those 700 hours between now and the new year to use and get it done.
I also think they could at least spend like 15 workdays to get at least the most urgent ones nominated. It's an obstacle, sure, but that doesn't mean you have to be complacent.
So get started...