‘It will take years to recover’ from Tuberville blockade, top Navy nominee says
‘It will take years to recover’ from Tuberville blockade, top Navy nominee says
Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy’s No. 2 officer, has been leading the service on an acting basis because of the impasse.
President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the Navy’s top officer, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, said it could take the service years to recover from the impacts of Sen. Tommy Tuberville‘s blockade of hundreds of senior military promotions.
Franchetti told the Senate Armed Services Committee during her confirmation hearing Thursday that the impasse has created “a lot of uncertainty” for Navy families.
“Just at the three-star level, it would take about three to four months just to move all the people around,” Franchetti said. “But it will take years to recover … from the promotion delays that we would see.”
Hey military folks. Keep on voting (R)etards so the green winnie can keep fuckin you.
Respectfully,
A vet.
Appreciate the energy, but please don't use that word.
They should stop retarding the process.
Also, they don't give a fuck if you're offending so fuck off with your infighting.
Why not?
Biden beat Trump in the military by 2-4 points in 2020 iirc...
It's not the "Tuberville Blockade". It's the "Conservative Blockade". They are all doing this. He is just the arrogant, grinning, evil face of it this time around. But they are ALL complicit.
This is not how the government should work. One person should not have enough power to obstruct anything. Whiners. That’s all Republicans are. They whine and cry and if they don’t get their way they just refuse to do their jobs. Pieces of shit all.
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Does he have the power all by himself? I couldn't find much information on exactly how he's blocking them. Is it a filibuster or something like it, where they could simply override him if 9 Republicans were willing to vote with the Democrats to end his block? Or is it something else where he truly, even if all the other senators disagreed, has this ability?
If it is something like a filibuster, then this isn't just him blocking promotions - it's the entire Republican side of the senate blocking promotions, with him as a figurehead.
From what I had read somewhere, the holdup is in batching a ton of the promotions into a single voting item. Batching them together requires a unanimous vote, so by voting against it, Tuberville gets to hold the entire process hostage. Promotions can still occur, but each promotion would likely take weeks or months of work and deliberations.
Before military promotion and assignment was apolitical. As such, a mid to high level military commander could speak truth and not worry about civilian politics killing his career (military politics was and will always be there)
Now every ambitious major and colonel seeking a career has to factor in capital hill (and white house) whenever they speak at a meeting or hearing
Thanks Tuberville
Thank god we didn't do away with the filibuster.
Good.
The Navy should be abolished.
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I feel like there's a story here.
Yes, a tankie posted shit on the internet.
Just a deranged furry
You should be abolished.