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Politico Claims Senate Republicans Are Plotting To Break Tuberville's Military Blockade, BUT NO! [1]
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Date: 2023-11-04
Politico wrote a deceptive headline when it comes to Tommy Tuberville and his fellow Senate GOP colleagues.
Republicans, fed up with Tuberville, plot ways to bust his military blockade “You’re seeing the frustration build up because the consequences are building up,” one senator said.
Wow! Sounds like Senate Republicans might join with the Democrats to make a one time exception to pass all those military promotions in a bloc! At last, some semblance of sanity finally prevails in the U.S. Senate!
Ah, No.
During a special meeting planned for next week, some will ask Tuberville to focus his obstruction on only the Pentagon’s civilian nominees and not uniformed officers who have nothing to do with the policy he’s protesting. Others want to shift the fight to the courts to challenge the policy at the center of the hold, which reimburses troops who have to travel to obtain abortions and other reproductive services.
Emphasis is mine.
As for working with the Senate Democrats? GOD FORBID!!!!
Senate procedures have been a partisan faultline for a decade as Democrats and Republicans traded party-line “nuclear option” changes to the rules. And there’s strong opposition among Republicans to what they see as tampering with the chamber’s rules, especially if it erodes the ability of a single senator to pump the brakes on a nominee or a piece of legislation. “Senators have a right to place a hold on a nominee or on a bill, and I’m not going to vote to do anything to undermine it — and I would urge my colleagues not to do anything to undermine it, because it is a double-edged sword,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). “Ninety-nine percent of holds get worked out.”
That’s from Senator Foghorn Leghorn of LA. The man from the Sedition Caucus. Who supports all those filibusters against Democratic legislation and blocking judges Democrats want, but the same guy who rushed to vote for Republican judges like Amy Coney Barrett.
And what happens if Tuberville tells his GOP pals to go fuck off in that private meeting? What will his colleagues do?
Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska, who led Wednesday’s floor fight and called it “a demonstration of frustration” after he’d tried to work with Tuberville for nine months, said he hopes the Alabama senator would see the light now. He said he wants a Republican solution over the Democrats’ resolution. “Sometimes you have kind of a rough evening and it can reorient your thinking — but I’m not done,” Sullivan said. “I still think there are opportunities for good faith negotiations, absolutely.”
So they might do another stunt like last week where Tuberville said, “NO” 61 times. That will teach him! And don’t you just love the line about “good faith negotiations.” This is from a Republican. The very same people I would NEVER trust.
Also, I seem to recall that Ernst of IA basically said that Tuberville lied his ass off to her and didn’t keep his word on military promotions.
Anyway, this is another wonderful example of why the U.S. Senate is one of the most anti-democratic political institutions in America. And it also reveals that many of Tuberville’s ilk secretly want to ban abortion access for women in the military. Big surprise.
I’m afraid this will drag on for a while. While Senator Cramer claims the Democrats might get nine Republicans to back their rule change, I will believe it when I see it. Until then, we have a MAGA madman doing his bit for political dysfunction, with more than a little help from his GOP friends.
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