Tuberville again shows his ignorance of the damage he's doing with military promotions hold

Sen. Tommy Tuberville continues to make a clown of himself while screwing up the entire U.S. military with his temper tantrum over a military policy that pays for abortion-related travel by service members and their families. House Foreign Affairs Chair Mike McCaul recently told CNN, “The idea that one man in the Senate can hold this up for months … is paralyzing the Department of Defense,” he said, adding, “I think that is a national security problem and a national security issue.”

Tuberville responded to that criticism by a fellow Republican by saying, “He got his facts a little crossways there.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer could use a much more time-consuming process to get a vote on the nominations than the unanimous consent Tuberville has been blocking to the point where three branches of the military are currently without Senate-confirmed leaders. As Joan McCarter recently explained, “It could take the Senate weeks to work through each nomination, even if they were devoting all day, every day, to process them. That’s why the Senate normally takes up these routine promotions and nominations in blocs, with voice votes that are unanimously approved.”