Donald Trump will become the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday, and he’s spent the run-up to the big game talking out of his ass about the game that famously spurned him when he tried to buy a team in the 1980s. Trump threw a nod …
Read More »Sen. Tuberville Pushes Conspiracy Theory: 'Schumer, Pelosi, Obama' Are Running the Country
Sen. Tommy Tuberville promoted a conspiracy theory that President Joe Biden is not in charge of the country. Instead, he claimed, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and former president Barack Obama — along with “the Deep State” — are calling the shots. “We’ve all known Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, …
Read More »The Hottest Place to Pledge Allegiance to Trump Is Manhattan Criminal Court
If you’re a Republican politician looking to score points with Donald Trump, there’s a decent chance you’ve been spotted recently in or outside Manhattan Criminal Court. U.S. senators, House members, state attorneys general, and former GOP presidential primary opponents have all traveled to New York to support the former president …
Read More »GOP Sen. Is 'Disappointed' Trump's Anti-Immigrant Rants Aren't Harsher
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville expressed his disappointment on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s comments accusing migrants of “poisoning the blood of our country” weren’t even more xenophobic. During a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday, Trump told a crowd of supporters that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country … …
Read More »Tuberville Gives Up Military Blockade Stunt After Wasting 10 Months
Sen. Tommy Tuberville has finally — albeit partially —surrendered his blockade on military appointments and confirmations. After a lunchtime meeting with members of the GOP on Tuesday, Tuberville (R-Ala.) announced that he would no longer be contesting the nomination of appointments for offices ranked three stars or below, but will …
Read More »Is Tommy Tuberville the Most Ignorant Man in D.C.?
T ommy Tuberville’s Republican colleagues had finally had it with him. For months, the Alabama senator and former college football coach has blocked the confirmation of hundreds of senior military officers because he’s mad about a Pentagon policy that ensures soldiers have abortion access. The group of anti-abortion Republicans had …
Read More »GOP Sen. Wants to Defund the Military Over Abortion Policy
Tommy Tuberville has finally found an ally in his war against the Pentagon: Mike Lee. On Friday, the Republican senator from Utah tweeted out a defense of his colleague from Alabama, who has been holding months-long one-man embargo against critical military promotions for months. Lee even called for Republicans to …
Read More »Army, Navy, Marines All Without Senate-Confirmed Leaders Thanks to GOP Stunt
Three branches of the U.S. military are now without a Senate-confirmed leader, thanks to Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s freeze on approvals on military promotions. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday officially retired Monday, and there’s no official replacement for his position. Earlier this month, Army Chief of Staff Gen. …
Read More »DeSantis Defends Tuberville's Freeze on Military Promotions
Ron DeSantis is doing CPR on his campaign, and there’s no Republican spin room quite like Fox News. Amid a discussion of campaign drama and tanking polling, the Florida governor, a Navy veteran, told Fox’s Bret Baier that he supported Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s freeze on military promotions — because pronouns …
Read More »Retired General Calls Tommy Tuberville a 'Coward'
Retried two-star Marine Corps Major General Arnold Punaro called Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) a “coward” during an interview with Politico in which he discussed Tuberville’s blockade against approving military promotions. Tuberville, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has stalled more than 270 military promotions over his opposition to …
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