The right has broken out their pearls in response to #MichaelHayden's remark, but is he wrong? #Tuberville is singlehandedly preventing more than 300 #military#promotions, putting our readiness at risk, and directly harming our #nationalSecurity because he thinks holding these promotions #hostage is going to result in the military caving to his hateful #ideology, and demand that pregnant #troops' lives be made as difficult as possible. I think Hayden is on to something.
Tommy Tuberville is in Putin's pocket. Tuberville is 'holding' these military positions open for Trump, in his hopes that he is re-elected. Ergo, Trump can then promote officers he perceives to be MAGA-friendly, so that he has key military leaders in place for his next coup attempt.
@DrJackBrown Tuberville is doing to the military what McConnell did to the judiciary: holding seats open until a Republican can appoint a loyal stooge. #tuberville
#Republican Sen. Tommy #Tuberville to continue his block on military confirmations which impacts senior #military appointments in the #MiddleEast, as the #Pentagon moves to bolster its presence in the region amid the ongoing crisis in #Israel.
Tuberville says he won’t relent until the Pentagon revokes its policy of reimbursing service members for #HealthCare-related travel, which the senator has argued facilitates #abortions.
#SecDef Lloyd Austin announced that he ordered the #Navy’s Ford carrier strike grp to the eastern Mediterranean, near #Israel. The USS Gerald Ford is the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier & it is being deployed to the area, along w/a guided missile cruiser & 4 destroyers, as a deterrence measure.
#Tuberville’s blockade means the current commander of the Navy’s 5th fleet – which is responsible for US naval ops in the #MiddleEast – is still awaiting promotion to deputy commander of #CentCom.
The deputy commanders of both #5thFleet & #USAF Central are also included in #Tuberville’s hold, as well as CENTCOM’s deputy dir of #strategy, plans & policy.
#Pentagon leadership roles have had to be significantly reshuffled because of Tuberville’s hold. Many snr military officers are performing 2 jobs as they await promotion, & some key positions are being held by more junior officers because a more senior officer has not yet been confirmed by the #Senate.
The smugness. Better this traitor serve in federal prison than in the senate. Again we ask...
Who exactly is pulling your strings Tommy? #Pentagon#Tuberville#Israel#Gaza#Putin#GQP
The Republican Fascist Party is not "pro life." #ProLifeMyAss
Via Michael Freeman:
The senator from Alabama is an asset for our nation’s enemies.
NBC News:
The office of Sen. Tommy #Tuberville says he isn’t backing down on his monthslong blockade on hundreds of military promotions, even amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.
"The escalation to war in Gaza comes at a time when the U.S. is facing a first in its history: the lack of a Speaker of the House. And over in the Senate, the antics of Senator Tommy Tuberville have left hundreds of key military positions unfilled."
Yet more awful evidence that Tommy #Tuberville is undermining national security and harming Israel at the same time. Unfit for public office-- or civil society.
Fox's Griffin: I would expect to see some of those weapons being released to replenish the stockpiles of Israel… The U.S. Navy I will point out does not have a confirmed chief of naval operations because of the hold placed by Tommy Tuberville
#Republicans averted the self-inflicted wound of a #GovernmentShutdown this weekend. The main casualty of the process was #aid for #Ukraine, but foreign aid was always a fig leaf—for both #GOP#dysfunction & the determination of a small group of Republicans to help #Russia.
"There once was a time when politicizing the military was seen as an egregious violation of the responsibility to support the troops. But after the presidency of a man who avoided service by claiming he suffered bone spurs, attacked the heroism of the late senator and prisoner of war John McCain, insulted Gold Star families who suffered the loss of a child in combat," (continued at /2)
"despised the sight of injured soldiers, slurred soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice as 'losers' and 'suckers' and refused to honor war dead on a rainy day in France because it would muss his hair, is it any wonder that his cult followers have adopted his hostility?"
@GottaLaff#Manchin should be primaried. It would be easier to just have an effing GOP Senator from poor, conservative WV, than to have Manchin go #Tuberville on the Democrats
Tommy #Tuberville, the #racist goober who is singlehandedly blocking all #military#promotions, voted against #Biden's pick for the Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff position because the man is #black. He implied that that Biden picked him because of his skin color, and not his impeccable qualifications. Tuberville is a monumental piece of shit who is actively harming our military, and threatening our national security.
Any person who can become pregnant who’s willing to sacrifice their life to protect the United States should not have to cede control of their body to anyone and especially not to hacks like Tuberville, for whatever reason he’s doing it (most likely to hold them for a 2nd Trump term, and let’s not have that.)
Well, that brings the tally down to 270 blocked promotions.
🔻270 deserving officers without promotions.
🔻270 families (approx) without needed pay raises and likely location transfers in flux (schools, jobs).
🔻270 promotions that in EVERY prior year would have been an automatic confirmation.
🔻273 examples of RELIGIOUS DOGMA driving Senate actions. The United States of America is NOT A THEOCRACY.
Coach Tuberville is entitled to his personal religious convictions. He is NOT entitled to foist them onto our constitutional system of gov’t.
Republicans do not know how to govern and are incapable of compromise.
Tommy #Tuberville is singlehandedly causing more damage to our #nationalsecurity than any other individual in the past 50+ years, and #Trump is cheering him on. Never let #Republicans claim they support our #military because they demonstrably do not. They support the military-industrial complex, but they don't give a shit about national security, our #troops, or our #veterans. They prove this each day they allow Sen. Goober to hold our military #hostage.
> Senator Chuck Schumer filed a motion that would end deliberation on three of President Joe #Biden's nominations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff Wednesday.
[News] Despite Tuberville delay, U.S. Senate confirms 2 nominees for Joint Chiefs of Staff - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm two of President Joe Biden's appointees for the Joint Chiefs of Staff....