Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday evening sought and received unanimous consent to confirm the promotions of 11 four-star generals that had been held up for months by Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville ® to protest the Pentagon’s abortion policies.
Schumer broke Tuberville’s blockade of more than 300 lower-ranking military promotions earlier this month, but the Alabama senator insisted at the time on holding up 11 of the highest-ranking officers so as not to capitulate completely to Democrats.
Tuberville demanded at the time that the promotions of the 11 four-star generals go through regular order on the Senate floor. He wanted senators to vote on procedural motions to end debate and then vote again to confirm the military promotions individually.
No one should make such a risky assumption even about what they think, much less the actual outcome.
Or even if they think. Some do. Many are schemers… morally defunct crumpets, who plot and scheme all day and act all night.
But many of them have not a whit of wit, a whit-wit, you might call them. These simply… don’t… think.
(Fwiw, these aren’t traits exclusive to republicans.)
They don’t have wit. They have a sledgehammer and apply it to every problem.
Unfortunately those with wit are in the way, some will stay and fight while others will give in and leave. The few sane people left in the GOP after 8 years of MAGA choose to leave.
Our elections were almost hijacked last election season. Many of those with wit have chosen to leave rather than go through it all again.
Don’t underestimate the effectiveness of a sledgehammer.
Don’t fall into this trap. There are a few that are clever. Evil, yes. Unscrupulous, yes. But still clever.
Bitch McConnel’s play to stack the Supreme Court, for example.
I’d classify that as a sledgehammer. Moscow Mitch strait up did not move forward with any of Obama’s confirmations and flipped his stance on confirmations when Trump came to office.
This was bold faced politics kicking hundreds of years of precedent to the curb.
Okay. But was it clever?
Sometimes a sledge hammer is in fact the proper tool. Using one doesn’t make one “dumb” and my point remains: not all republicans are dumb. Underestimate them at your peril.