Pentagon officials have been frustrated for months over an Alabama senator’s blockade of more than 300 senior military nominations. But after the Marine Corps chief was hospitalized over the weekend, that frustration is turning into rage.
Gen. Eric Smith had been filling both the No. 1 and No. 2 Marine Corps posts from July until he was finally confirmed as commandant in September. He, along with more than 300 other senior officers, was swept up in the promotions blockade put in place by GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville in protest of the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy.
In an interview Wednesday, Tuberville brushed off the comments from the DOD officials.
“They’re looking for someone to blame it on, other than themselves,” he said. “We could have all these people confirmed if they’d have just gone by the Constitution.
“I don’t listen to these people,” he added. “They’re just looking for any possible way to get themselves out of a jam.”
Do you not think the dems have the ability to stop the republicans? Because they absolutely do. But rather then use the power they have, they’d rather “play politics.”
Yeah let’s play politics with a party that cheats, try to make a coup, doesn’t respect democracy, force push extremists inside their own party, say extremists are good people.
We should also engage in mediations with Kim Jong Un to tell him he’s not very nice and send a cookie of peace to Putin to melt his heart.
I have no idea why Schumer does that, but apparently if you ask why the democrats don’t use power they have and suggest that they do use the power they have instead, that breaks brains.
You can’t just magically waive a wand and “stop the Republicans.” And Democrats are working to solve this problem but this doesn’t happen overnight. How exactly are the Dems “playing politics?”
But none of that really matters to the point of your bad faith argument, because this problem would immediately go away if Tuberville stopped being an asshat. Pointing at the Democrats for not fixing Republican caused problems is asinine political style victim blaming.
The Senate, like the house, are allowed to set their own rules and even change the rules they have based on a simple majority vote. If Schumer and party wanted to, they could immediately not allow Tuberville to block the confirmations. They could also immediately confirm all pending confirmations and kick all members of the minority party off of all committees. All of this is legal, all of this is within the Democrats power right now just as it was “several months ago.”
As far as how the democrats are playing politics, from the article you linked:
If you are “applying political pressue” you are playing politics, when instead you could literally just do it since they control the senate.