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…

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.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    441·
    11 months ago

    “Sooner or later you got to communicate: ‘Coach, what do you want here? Let’s get this done.’ They have no communication skills whatsoever. It’s their way or the highway,” he said.

    First, referring to yourself in the third person as “Coach” while being a US Senator discussing the business of the US Senate is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard in awhile.

    Second, they don’t need to ask you what you want “coach”, they know you want to enforce your backwards unpopular social agenda blocking abortion in any way or form, and you’re willing to push your person views at the cost of military readiness and recruiting. You are making our country less safe. Stop it “coach”.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
      71·
      11 months ago

      I took Coach to be referring to Schumer, as majority leader. Doesn’t make Tupperville’s bullshit sound any more believable.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        23·
        11 months ago

        Thomas Hawley Tuberville (born September 18, 1954) is an American politician and retired college football coach who is the senior United States senator from Alabama

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        I really think he was referring to himself. As in, Tuberville wanted someone to come to him and ask him what his demands were to figuratively release the hostages of the military promotions.