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Thursday, July 13th, 2023

Tuberville’s hold leaves Marines leaderless for first time in 164 years

Author:     BRAD DRESS
Source:     The Hill
Publication Date:     07/10/23 | 12:32 PM ET
 Link: Tuberville’s hold leaves Marines leaderless for first time in 164 years
Stephan:  

Christofascist Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is one of the dimmer bulbs in the Senate. He’s also a White supremacist racist, of course, and also deeply committed to male dominance. I think, he is interested in raising his profile in MAGAt world. So he has done something amazingly stupid, as this article describes, and as you may already have heard. He is willing to screw up the entire military officer promotion system in order to demonstrate to the MAGAts in his state that he supports the government having complete control over women’s bodies.

Christofascist white supremacist Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville Credit: Rolling Stone

The blockade from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on about 250 of the Pentagon’s general and flag officers has left the Marine Corps without a confirmed leader for the first time in 164 years.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger officially retired on Monday, leaving Assistant Commandant Gen. Eric Smith as the acting commandant and leader of the military branch until he is confirmed in the Senate.

The last time the Marine Corps was left with an acting commandant was in 1859, when Archibald Henderson, the fifth commandant of the Marines, died at 76 without a successor in place.

It’s unclear when Smith could be confirmed. Tuberville’s hold on the Pentagon nominees, which he began in March to protest the Defense Department’s new abortion policy, shows no signs of weakening, even as the block has sparked bipartisan frustration.

Tuberville’s hold is affecting leadership posts held by key military officers, prompting concern from the White House, Defense Department, former Defense secretaries under Republican and Democratic administrations and […]

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