Senate Republicans might not care about Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade on military promotions, but as stevebenen writes, leaders in the armed forces are making clear that they do not share the GOP's indifference.
over the last month or so suggesting GOP senators have tried working behind the scenes to get Tuberville to back off. Evidently, those efforts were a bit too subtle — because he didn’t notice their existence.
The result is an important partisan dynamic: For months, this controversy has been seen largely as an avoidable mess created by one misguided senator. But if Tuberville’s Republican colleagues are letting him get away with undermining his own country’s military, then it will be that much more difficult for them to avoid the blame.
In the meantime, while GOP senators express apparent indifference to Tuberville’s radical tactics, military leaders themselves are ringing alarms.
“We will lose talent” because of the problems caused by the block on promotions, Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown Jr., the president’s pick to serve as the country’s top military officer, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The Air Force general isn’t the only one with concerns. Lt. Gen. Andrew Rohling, the deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Europe-Africa, met with a bipartisan group of senators this week, and
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