Tommy Tuberville’s blockade was already indefensible. Now, however, we're learning that he hasn't done his homework on the details of his own tactics.
In late July, as Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade continued, retired two-star Marine Gen. Arnold Punaro struggled to contain his disgust for the Alabama Republican. The retired general, who also worked as longtime staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee,The senator continues to take steps to prove Punaro right..
Sen. Tommy Tuberville told reporters he assumed that Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley would stay on past his Oct. 1 retirement date until there’s a Senate-confirmed replacement. When informed that, by law, Milley will have to leave his post on that date, Tuberville responded: “He has to leave? He’s out. Get somebody else to do the job.”
It was a rather remarkable exchange. The coach-turned-politician, who has no background in the military and no record of public service before getting elected to the Senate, apparently assumed that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs would just stick around for a while as Tuberville’s blockade continued.
If the Republican lawmaker had done his homework — getting up to speed on the details of his own dangerous efforts — the senator would know that Gen. Milley’s term, as a statutory matter, ends on Oct. 1.was the wrong question for Tuberville to ask — especially as he accuses a fellow Republican of not being “up on his facts.”via social media, “Sen. Tuberville never served and frankly, doesn’t know what in the hell he’s talking about.
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