Senate Republicans torpedoed a procedural vote to start moving past Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) blockade of the “minibus,” or bundle of three spending bills, that has ground action in the chamber to a halt.
In regards to the GOP, turns out stupid is contagious…
The Tube from AL gets his comeuppance. Or, the Senate says fuck you to the football coach.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/us/politics/senate-military-nominations-tuberville.html
The Senate was expected on Wednesday to confirm three generals to serve on the president’s top military advisory council, steering around a monthslong blockade of military promotions by Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, who has held up hundreds of nominees in protest of a Pentagon abortion access policy.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, moved on Wednesday to force votes on confirming Gen. Eric Smith of the Marine Corps and Gen. Randy George of the Army as the chiefs of staff for their respective services, and Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. of the Air Force as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But the move left hundreds more military promotions in limbo, still stymied by Mr. Tuberville’s objections.
Just adding a little nuance 
Other headlines are “Schumer caves to Tuberville”
Whatever the case, the senate plans small blocks of votes from now through Saturday to confirm military promotions.
So that’s it, folks.
The GQP is determined to make their mark in history at our expense.
Too bad the media will broadcast this as a success for the party and another bad day for Biden and the Dems. Just once I wish I could be wrong about this.
“Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), the Republicans’ head appropriator, told Punchbowl News that she’d voted against moving towards ending Johnson’s blockade…”
Krysten Cinema: “Hold my wig.”
Because Senator Collins didn’t want to change Senate rules with 67 votes? What in the ever-loving frack is she talking about? Preserving the decorum of the Senate? That ship sailed a long time ago; around when they acquitted an obviously guilty man not once, but twice. GQP delenda est.
Sen. Collins spoke with an extremely furrowed brow…
This isn’t hard to figure out. What MAGA Republicans truly believe is that if they can trash the economy going into the 2024 election, they’ll gain more power and the WH.
When SHTF they’ll blame BIden and Democrats. The media will go along or play that both siderism thing.
It’s not complicated. We’ve seen this movie before.
Krysten Cinema: *“Hold my wig.”
Obvious misunderstanding: Trying to keep her partner Sen. Munchkin at bay, what she actually said was “Hold my Whig.”
Could the Senate Republicans be starting to gravitate towards the House Republicans? Maybe, but there are not as many pure MAGAt Republicans in the Senate.
So furrowed you could grow Maine potatoes in it.
the House is currently paralyzed by the unending demands of its rightmost contingent.
No, the House is currently paralyzed by the unending incompetence and cowardice of its Speaker who will not tell the far right minority to, in the words of Dick Cheney, go fuck themselves.
RonJon and Tuberville - always happy to carry some House Republican fever to the other end of the Capitol.
ETA: @jmacaz has got it
Both RonJon and Tubbies are useful idiots for the Russians, Chinese, etcetera, etcetera . . .
The original Ms. Potato Head! So that explains it.
Just because? Well, I guess because they now know that no matter what, Biden’s age will always be the topic du jour.
There’s a fine line between “useful idiot” and mere “idiot”.
On which face?