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?”
I kinda like this line of thought, but it's not completely tit-for-tat. Menendez isn't re-electable, Tuberville is. So, dems would be giving up something they're going to lose anyway, repubs would be giving up an incumbent.
A first term incumbent in Alabama who hasn't even served half his term. They aren't losing much seniority and unless they run a known pedophile again, he'll be replaced with a republican.
It's the GOP, there's a pretty good chance they do.
Hell, I thought it was a requirement.
It's not perfect.