The only reason Tuberville is able to hold things up is because the senate generally votes on these all at once and that type of vote is required to be unanimous. If republicans want to play games, the senate majority leader should bring up these high level positions one at a time and hold normal votes.
It wastes time, but at least it helps get around this nonsense.
Is Tuberville running for President? Of Belarus? Really no explanation for this besides bad faith, in the worst sense.
Why do Republicans hate America?
Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville, who represents Alabama, has blocked hundreds of military nominations from moving forward, saying the Pentagon is improperly using government funding to cover travel costs for abortions for service members and their dependents.
Huh. Not the excuse I would have imagined, but somehow not at all surprising.
"Rivals on the world stage"
The world is not a theatre and I'm not an extra in an audition for the lead actor. Perhaps a more collaborative approach would yield better results and fewer perceived threats.
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Usually when someone doesn't understand what I'm saying, I assume I haven't been clear enough and I'll explain further. Had you asked, i would have done so now. But you didn't, so I'll leave it at:
I wasn't implying that the US's world stage rivals were literal individual people auditioning to act in an actual theatre production.
I wonder how much he's being paid to support the Kremlin's genocidal land grab.
well, i guess they're just going to go ahead and try the theocratic military coup
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