Quote:Today is the last day on active duty for Commandant of the Marine Corps David Berger. There will be hosanas sung in a lot of quarters at the departure of the man who has gutted the ability of the US Marine Corps to perform as an expeditionary force through the ill-conceived Force Design 2030 reorganization and work will start to try to mitigate the damage. But that isn’t what is drawing attention, though it should. When the helicopter lifts Berger off the roof of Henderson Hall this evening, the US Marine Corps will be without a confirmed commandant.

Why doesn’t the Marine Corps have a Senate-confirmed commandant? The answer is two words and one US Senator: Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville. The issue is the Department of Defense subsidizing the expenses of military women to travel to a pro-Moloch state to get an abortion when they aren’t available at their station of duty.

A lone Senate Republican’s bid to reverse a Pentagon policy ensuring abortion access for service members is delaying the smooth transfer of power at the highest echelons of the armed forces, including in the ranks of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as a monthslong partisan dispute over social policy drags on.

Senator Tommy Tuberville, a conservative from Alabama, has been single-handedly blocking hundreds of promotions for high-ranking generals and admirals since February, refusing to relent unless the Defense Department scraps a policy — instituted after the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion last year — offering time off and travel reimbursement to service members who need to go out of state for abortions.

Now, Mr. Tuberville’s tactics are on the brink of disrupting the Pentagon’s ability to fill its top ranks. More than half of the current Joint Chiefs are expected to step down from their posts during the next few months without a Senate-approved successor in place, leaving the president’s chief military advisory body in an unprecedented state of flux at a time of escalating tensions with China and Russia.

I wrote about this controversy weeks ago in Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville Reminds the Defense Department That One Determined Man Is a Majority.

Untrammeled wokeness inevitably leads to hubris and open revolt. The Department of Defense is barred from allowing abortions in military medical facilities. Shortly after the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning the legal and moral travesty that was Roe vs. Wade was handed down in June 2022, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that the military would pay for the travel of pregnant soldiers AND their family members to states that were abortion-friendly as well as providing three weeks of free time off. The policy became final in February.

Austin was correct in guessing that a Democrat-led Senate would prevent any action from being taken. What he was wrong about was the ability of one determined senator to upend the abortion applecart. In December, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville told Austin that if he persisted in doing this end run around the law, he would prevent all promotions of general officers and their civilian equivalents.

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) today announced his intent to place a hold on all future U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) civilian and general flag officer nominees should the department choose to move forward with a planned policy change to fund travel and paid time off for service members and their dependents seeking an abortion. The announcement from Senator Tuberville comes in response to his office being briefed by Department of Defense officials on the policy change earlier in the week. By covering travel expenses and paid time off, Senator Tuberville believes the DoD is blatantly flouting the law.

Tuberville’s “hold” on senior Defense appointments leaves limited options. The easiest one is for Austin to recognize that his action is illegal and rescind it. That doesn’t seem to be in the works. As all senior Defense nominees require the Senate to “advise and consent,” Tuberville’s lone objection can only be bypassed by Chuck Schumer, allowing debate and a vote on each nominee. This would require an investment of time that he just can’t afford.

Instead of blaming Tuberville, anger should be directed against the pompous, self-important Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin who is trying to score political points for the Democrats on the back of military readiness. When General Berger retires into well-earned obscurity this evening, you know what happens tomorrow? The sun will come up. Birds will sing. Children will play. The woke left will be outraged. In other words, life goes on. The Marine Corps will have an “acting commandant.”

[Note: I have no idea why Caplan says, “1st time USMC has no confirmed commandant since 1859.” The list of Marine Corps Commandants shows that the Marines have frequently had breaks of days or months without a commandant. The last time it happened was when Major General George Elliot retired in November 1910 and wasn’t replaced until February 1911.]

An acquaintance made an impassioned appeal for Tuberville to back off.

I think Tuberville has correct stance on this. The only people inconvenienced by Tuberville’s hold is a handful of senior officers whose assignments need senatorial approval. While this may upset some career apple carts, the idea that failing to confirm them affects readiness is dishonest. If the miliary has reached the point where there is a finite number of generals capable of commanding, we might as well just fold our tent and slink away.

Letting Austin do what he wants is rewarding the Defense Department for behaving like the spoiled, bratty toddler it is. Austin needs to do what is right legally, which is to pull the plug on his end run of federal law, and morally, which is to get Defense out of the baby-killing business.

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Go Tommy go

Now I understand why Tuberville is drawing the wrath of so many on the left. I haven't followed the details.

Go get 'em Tubby. Screw that Woke Sec. of Defense.

No one is saying that those women can't do the abortion on their dime. US taxpayers didn't get 'em pregnant, if they want to end the pregnancy pay for the murder yourself.

There's nobody in the top ranks of any service who deserves to be there. Commandant Berger, CNO Gilday, Army GEN McConville, AF GEN Brown, and JCS Chair Milley are all wastes.

I thought Tubby was another 'bad candidate' ... funny how that shite plays out...

He keeps doing things like this and he could find himself in party leadership…. not.

Congressional Republicans are spineless. They refuse to stand up for their constituents and those that rock the boat don’t stick around long.

I applaud what Tuberville is doing but he better watch his back. Not only from some of the liberal nuts but from RINO’s in his party.

You can bet Mitch has already called and wants him to stop.

(07-10-2023 03:51 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Good

Pine Box becomes Spine Blocks.

(07-10-2023 07:40 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  He keeps doing things like this and he could find himself in party leadership…. not.

Congressional Republicans are spineless. They refuse to stand up for their constituents and those that rock the boat don’t stick around long.

I applaud what Tuberville is doing but he better watch his back. Not only from some of the liberal nuts but from RINO’s in his party.

You can bet Mitch has already called and wants him to stop.

McConnell, Thune Join Bad-Faith Dogpile On Tuberville For Fighting Military’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Racket

Quote:Since February, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville effectively prevented the promotion of hundreds of generals and flag officers over Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s commitment to subsidize thousands of abortions for U.S. service members and their families.

Tuberville isn’t the only Republican senator who takes issue with Austin’s advancement of the Biden administration’s radical abortion agenda. But his crusade to keep taxpayer dollars from ending life in the womb, something a majority of Americans oppose, has been riddled with opposition from Democrats, corporate media, and top brass. Now, even senior members of his own party such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are throwing him under the bus.

The most recent wave of attacks on Tuberville’s stonewalling center on a dishonest narrative that the Alabama legislator apparently “refused to denounce” white nationalism in a radio interview in May.

“Do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military?” WBHM’s Richard Banks asked.

“Well, they call them that. I call them Americans,” Tuberville replied.

Tuberville’s comments are not inaccurate. They are simply predicated on the fact that, under the Biden regime, smears like “white nationalist,” along with “domestic extremist” and others, have been used by Democrats, their activist allies like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, and bureaucrats to justify targeting dissenters.

“We are losing in the military so fast. Our readiness in terms of recruitment. And why? I’ll tell you why, because the Democrats are attacking our military, saying we need to get out the white extremists, the white nationalists, people that don’t believe in our agenda, as Joe Biden’s agenda. They’re destroying it,” Tuberville said in the initial interview.

The senator also repeated this clarification in an exchange with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in mid-June.

“I’m totally against anything to do with racism. But the thing about being a white nationalist — it’s just a cover word for the Democrats now where they can use it to try to make people mad across the country, identity politics. I’m totally against that,” Tuberville said.

Despite the truthful roots of Tuberville’s quick response, bad-faith attacks from all sides continued. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuberville’s comments were “deeply and terribly disturbing.” Lt. Gen. Andrew Rohling, the deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Europe-Africa, called Tuberville’s stonewalling tactics “reprehensible, irresponsible and dangerous.”

“I asked Sen. Tuberville why he continues to insist white nationalists are American. And he repeatedly tried to move on when pressed further,” ABC’s senior congressional reporter Rachel Scott complained on Twitter on Tuesday.





Her line of questioning led to a deluge of propaganda press pieces claiming Tuberville “now says ‘White nationalists are racists’ after refusing to denounce them.”

“Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday said, simply and for the first time, that ‘white nationalists are racists,’” the lede on ABC’s article stated.

Performative Politicians
Instead of coming to Tuberville’s aid, top Republicans have also begun to shun him from the sidelines using ammunition offered to them by Democrats and the corporate media.

The only statement top Senate Republican McConnell, who acknowledges “Democrats’ Abortion Extremism Puts Them Outside The Mainstream,” made about the issue was not a defense of Tuberville or his important pro-life work, but a boilerplate condemnation of white supremacy.

“White supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in our whole country,” McConnell told reporters in a Capitol hallway on Tuesday.

Senate Minority Whip John Thune said in another statement that the U.S. military would be impaired unless Tuberville let up.

“I think the longer this drags on, the more problematic it becomes for the military to function and operate in the way that I think the American people expect them to operate,” Thune told reporters.



McConnell’s statement is weak and dishonest. Thune’s is a blatant lie. He overlooks the fact that Austin could end this by simply rescinding his pledge to grant up to three weeks of paid time off and travel costs for his employees and their family members to obtain abortions. Thune also ignores the fact that the U.S. military faced a recruiting and identity crisis long before Tuberville moved to hold the Pentagon accountable.

“The Pentagon’s new abortion policy has everything to do with activist politics and nothing to do with Congress’s obligation to raise and maintain armed forces to provide for the common defense,” military policy experts retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin and retired Lt. Col. James J. Carafano wrote for The Federalist in May.

This isn’t the first time Senate Republicans have balked at standing up to Democrats’ abortion radicalism, one of their voters’ top-line issues. In April, McConnell allies Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska sabotaged an opportunity to curb Democrats’ radical abortion agenda by opposing a resolution authored by Tuberville that would stop the Biden administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs from handing out abortions. Before that, they banded together to oppose Sen. Lindsey Graham and his federal pro-life legislation which would have finally brought the U.S. up to speed with the type of restrictions other civilized countries enacted years ago.

Tuberville has worked for months to keep the Pentagon from doing the Biden administration’s bidding on abortion. For his efforts, he should be at least supported if not celebrated by the pro-life party. Instead, he is mocked, belittled, and abandoned by politicians who have proven over and over again that their commitment to preserving life in the womb is performative.

Thankfully for the pro-life organizations and the millions of Americans who say their hard-earned tax dollars shouldn’t be used to end life in the womb, Tuberville said he doesn’t plan to give up the fight.

“I’m trying to get the attention of this Department of Defense and the White House. Listen to the people, listen to the people. I’m not trying to hurt anybody. Listen to the people, and let’s get this thing done,” Tuberville said on CNN on Monday night.

Damn it sucks to be right about RINO SOB’s like McConnell

(07-12-2023 04:10 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  Damn it sucks to be right about RINO SOB’s like McConnell

When I caught the NBC local news account last night the only thing that popped into my mind was Luke Skywalker telling Kylo Ren "Everything you just said is wrong!"

Their take didn't mention the abortion stand, painted Tuberville as anti-military, and was topped off with Mush Mouth Mitch apologizing for a Republican's actions. Piss on 'em all!

God Bless Tommy Tuberville for standing up for the unborn.

Does anyone here know a "white nationalist"?

Wtf is a "white nationalist"

Im white. I think our nation kinda sucks right now.

So im not a "white nationalist"

Maybe im a "white regionalist"

Does the media judge and jury deem that rayciss becausr im here to say

IDGAF

“White Nationalist” is a catch all term for anyone who stands against the nonsense going on in DC.

I heard a Dem Senator today say what Tuberville is doing is hurting recruiting for the military. Ridiculous. I'm pretty sure what this administration is doing to the military by promoting a mentally ill man to General etc. is a lot worse. Who wants to be under Joe Biden as C in C? Afghanistan comes to mind.

The country can go to hell he is s senator for alabama and a long way for the worst out there FFS. Im glad he replaced that retard mistake doug jones. Good grief.

I’ve believed this for years….

White people need to become comfortable with being called “racist.” When white people no longer care about being called something most know they aren’t, the Marxists of BLM and the Socialists of CRT and D.I.E. are stripped of any “power”

(07-12-2023 04:33 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  “White Nationalist” is a catch all term for anyone who stands against the nonsense going on in DC.

(07-12-2023 04:42 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  I’ve believed this for years….

White people need to become comfortable with being called “racist.” When white people no longer care about being called something most know they aren’t, the Marxists of BLM and the Socialists of CRT and D.I.E. are stripped of any “power”

Hell yeah, in defense against the overuse of a catch all term for anyone on the right... you use a bunch of catch all terms!!!

(07-12-2023 04:48 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(07-12-2023 04:33 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  “White Nationalist” is a catch all term for anyone who stands against the nonsense going on in DC.

(07-12-2023 04:42 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  I’ve believed this for years….

White people need to become comfortable with being called “racist.” When white people no longer care about being called something most know they aren’t, the Marxists of BLM and the Socialists of CRT and D.I.E. are stripped of any “power”

Hell yeah, in defense against the overuse of a catch all term for anyone on the right... you use a bunch of catch all terms!!!

It's all much more sinister than that. They use the term White Nationalist because of several reasons:

1. It has mental ties to Nazi Germany and the Klan and so produces a kneejerk public reaction.

2. Hate crimes bills have been instituted so using this term justifies a now legal way to suspend constitutional rights, issue warrants, and seize and imprison normal people they can label without provoking public outrage.

3. It is another projection. BLM is a Black Nationalist movement predicated upon racism.

4. ANTIFA which claims to be Anti-Fascist is a corporately paid set of rioters who operate exactly like Hitler's S.A. (brownshirts). They are there to intimidate. So it too is a projection.

5. The longer people in government tolerate and use these terms the less actual freedom anyone of any race will have.

6. This process is designed to bypass due process and to be able to be used to neutralize any political opponent by mere accusation. Never forget that.