If the Republican party was fed up with this. They could revoke his committee memberships and replace him with someone else at any time. So you have to ask yourself. Are they fed up really? Or is this all just performative. And is he doing exactly what they want.
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This is what the Republican Party has become: working against U.S. interests, embracing totalitarianism, and receiving funds from Russia and China. Tuberville is a prime example of this disturbing trend within the GOP.
Have they or are they using him as an excuse to get nothing useful done? Because they could easily team up with Democrats to expel him if they're so tired of him.
Tubervile (typo, but I'm keeping it) is like McConnell - a useful hatchet man for the GOP. He's in no danger of losing his seat, has no shame, and is willing to do the dirty work regardless of how it affects his nationwide popularity.
On top of that Faux "News" and hard-line Republicans have made compromise akin to traitorous. As soon as any Republicans joined Democrats in calling for his replacement on the committee, they'd not only have a likely Republican opponent the next campaign cycle, but probably death threats.
Case-in-point, Adam Kinsinger, who only agreed to join the impeachment team knowing he was done in politics afterwards.
He's still butthurt that Alabama didn't get Space Force
So what you start doing is when it's his turn to vote yes or no and he starts talking about abortion you have he biggest guy in the room punch him square in the face. Then ask for his vote again. Repeat until he votes
Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system. Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
I doubt that's allowed in the Senate rules. But that won't stop Fetterman, he doesn't give a fuck.
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I am in agreement with everything you wrote here.
But I only brought Fetterman into this because the guy I was replying to wanted "the biggest guy in the room" to punch Coach repeatedly. And I think it's well known that Fetterman is the biggest guy in that chamber.
So wait… the work around was always “do them one by one” and he still had the power the stop that approach also?!
Sort of. This gets into the Senate rules so you really need to ask the Senate Parliamentarian. But my understanding is that under the normal rules, everything the Senate does is subject to some minimum amount of debate on the floor. Including each and every single one of these promotions.
The Senate can waive the normal rules if nobody objects, which happens quite often. For these military promotions, they are often bundled together and voted on all at once. but even a single Senator objecting can force them back to the normal rules. Coach said that the Senate can still approve these, one by one, like the normal rules say.
So, the Senate Leadership decided to offer them one by one, but still waive the debate time for each, which is still circumventing the rules and requires unanimous consent and Coach is continuing to object.
I think it's a bit of performance theater ahead of a push to formally change the rule, which requires 60 votes, so they need Republican support to do it. But if you simply count up the outspoken Republicans who were fighting with Coach and add them to the Senate majority, the math doesn't add up to 60 yet. I think the entire night was a performance for the five or six Republicans they still need to get to 60 votes.
Hahahahahaha, what happened to tubbyville's BrInG EaCh OnE iNdIvIdUaLlY bullshit he was lying about? Who here is surprised the Republican fucker is lying?
So what are they planning to do about it? Oh, that's right: nothing. I'd call the GOP useless except they're clearly being used by someone.
His first mistake is thinking he can bring any type of "life ethics" into the american military.
They are literally the walking talking example of telling you to screw off lol.
I mean seriously, they have triple the swear word vocabulary of the average person. Not even the happiest and purest hearted of some coast guard CO is going to listen to him.
Not even trying to be an edge lord or a treasonist here, asking in earnest...
He's an outsider. Haven't the movies taught us they'll break his knee caps so he can't make it to the Senate floor to do this?
I haven't been following this at all. What does he say he's trying to accomplish with this?
Republicans could end this in one vote. Democrats could bring individual votes and just pass them through slower.
Shutting down our military leadership is a team effort.
There aren't enough hours in the Senate to do it individually. Also there's other shit to get done. This is not both sides. One man, not even the whole GOP for once is about it. Please don't falsely equivocate. It's dangerous.
Did you know a comment you've made like this may have stopped a potential swing voter from switching over bc while they're conservative they hate obstructionism and prefer a functioning government? "But both sides so whatever.. might as well keep voting against your abortions and trans people existing"
So you admit that the senate could do it if they wanted to without any republican support. And you're also claiming that it's not worth scheduling ANY individual position fill votes and better to just let one dumbshit destroy our military leadership because the dems can blame it on the republicans.
I'm not going to lie and claim that dems are perfect and theres no time to line up 400 votes (each of which takes approx 20 minutes) in the YEARS this bullshit has been blocked just in case some low information dumbfuck who would never have voted for not facism anyway.
Are you really claiming that there's no time or circumstances when those who can work around an obstruction simply refuse to do so have to start sharing the blame?
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