Senate Republicans are starting to turn on Tommy Tuberville over his blockade of military promotions.
The Senate brought 61 individual nominees to the floor for a vote Wednesday night. Tuberville objected to all of them, tanking each officer’s promotion. He has repeatedly insisted that his blockade, a protest of the Department of Defense’s abortion policy, does not harm military readiness.
But his Republican colleagues were finally sick of hearing it. “No offense, but that’s just ridiculous,” Senator Dan Sullivan said. “He knows it. We all know it.”
Sullivan revealed that the military expects Tuberville’s blockade to affect 89 percent of all general officer positions, across all branches.
“Xi Jinping is loving this. So is Putin,” Sullivan said, referring to the presidents of China and Russia. “How dumb can we be, man?”
Tubervile (typo, but I’m keeping it) is like McConnell - a useful hatchet man for the GOP. He’s in no danger of losing his seat, has no shame, and is willing to do the dirty work regardless of how it affects his nationwide popularity.
On top of that Faux “News” and hard-line Republicans have made compromise akin to traitorous. As soon as any Republicans joined Democrats in calling for his replacement on the committee, they’d not only have a likely Republican opponent the next campaign cycle, but probably death threats.
Case-in-point, Adam Kinsinger, who only agreed to join the impeachment team knowing he was done in politics afterwards.