Tuberville DOD Wrecking Ball: His is Arrogant and Smug & Needs to be Expelled

Stubborn, smug, and arrogant attention seeker

(His expression shows it - he needs to go)

SECOND UPDATE on the Sen. Tuberville (R-AL) DOD mess on holding up DOD promotion over his wild crazy lying about DOD’s abortion and diversity training policies. He is a direct threat to national security and the nation's safety.

The Senate needs to get rid of Tuberville as outlined in this constitutional provision:

“Article I, section 5 of the United States Constitution provides that “Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.”

Key parts of this update are below from VOX.com with this headline:

“The far right’s war on “woke” has real-world consequences for the military”

Any one senator can hold up these confirmations, even if the other 99 wish to move forward with them, because of the Senate concept of unanimous consent, which is not a formal Senate rule but allows the body to make changes to regular order to expedite legislating such as allowing batch confirmations. 

Unanimous consent can apply to all different parts of the Senate’s legislative process — everything from limiting debates and amendments to scheduling votes — and essentially means that the body has decided to dispense with the Senate’s usual procedures in the interests of moving business forward. It’s not always part of the legislative process, but it’s used so often that there are rules and precedents surrounding it. 

The Senate has long relied on unanimous consent to promote military personnel through batch confirmations, but with Tuberville’s hold, the only way to move the confirmations forward would be to vote on them one by one, through regular order.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the AP: “That doing so would take up to 84 days with the chamber working regular, eight-hour days, or 27 days if they worked around the clock.”

Tuberville’s hold could affect 650 military promotions by the year’s end.  He is basing it on a misrepresentation of how DOD’s abortion policy works. But, sadly, he isn’t the only Republican using legislation related to the military to force right-wing policies into defense policy.

House Freedom Caucus members scored a victory this week when the House passed a version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that included amendments limiting abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, and diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) training programs.

FIRST UPDATE & ORIGINAL POST FOLLOW THIS UPDATE BELOW:

My 2 Cents: The above and below say it all. 

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