Yeah this isn’t just about Tuberville wanting concessions to get the military to stop protecting female service members from state laws against abortion- it’s also a fine pretext to hold open a raft of leadership positions to be filled with political appointees by the next GOP administration
This is 100% what the GOP wants. It worked for them in the judiciary and I am inclined to think it will work for them here. At first to make sure any non-conservative policy is removed and then to influence the military brass to setup for the next coup. I used to be a moderate voter and would vote for conservatives where their policies matched what I thought was reasonable and that I though I could count on to “do the right thing”. The GOP drove any notion of that out of me forever with Trumpism.
The GOP is party over country and it’s terrifying for our democracy. I LOATH Hillary Clinton and you’d have had to hold a gun to my head to get me to vote for her, but now I would vote for her in a heartbeat after what I’ve seen since ~2015.
I am somewhat hopeful that senate dems can use this as a pretext to change the rules and sideline minority blocks on these things. It’s clearly bad faith and the clock is ticking.
Isn’t a senate rules change a straight 50? Seems like you should be able to whip manchin and sinema if military support for Israel is the order of the day.
Yeah this isn’t just about Tuberville wanting concessions to get the military to stop protecting female service members from state laws against abortion- it’s also a fine pretext to hold open a raft of leadership positions to be filled with political appointees by the next GOP administration
This is 100% what the GOP wants. It worked for them in the judiciary and I am inclined to think it will work for them here. At first to make sure any non-conservative policy is removed and then to influence the military brass to setup for the next coup. I used to be a moderate voter and would vote for conservatives where their policies matched what I thought was reasonable and that I though I could count on to “do the right thing”. The GOP drove any notion of that out of me forever with Trumpism.
The GOP is party over country and it’s terrifying for our democracy. I LOATH Hillary Clinton and you’d have had to hold a gun to my head to get me to vote for her, but now I would vote for her in a heartbeat after what I’ve seen since ~2015.
I am somewhat hopeful that senate dems can use this as a pretext to change the rules and sideline minority blocks on these things. It’s clearly bad faith and the clock is ticking.
Unfortunately changing the rules takes more votes than the Dems have; they’re still stuck using the same rules package McConnell left
Isn’t a senate rules change a straight 50? Seems like you should be able to whip manchin and sinema if military support for Israel is the order of the day.
To do it, you need cloture and that takes 60
No kidding? Learn something everyday!