Tommy Tuberville takes the military hostage over abortion
To the editor: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is wreaking havoc on our army and their households. He has no enterprise stalling senior army promotions, together with placing a maintain on the Senate affirmation of the Marine Corps commandant.
His rationale is his opposition to the present Protection Division coverage of paying for service members to journey for wanted reproductive care, together with abortion, if it’s not accessible the place they’re stationed.
It’s shameful that somebody who couldn’t even identify the three branches of presidency after being elected in 2020 is a sitting senator. That lack of fundamental information would trigger him to grandly fail the civics take a look at given to potential U.S. residents.
He has additionally made it fairly apparent that he doesn’t wish to criticize white nationalists. We’d all be higher served if he left the Senate and returned to teaching soccer.
(Full disclosure: My daughter-in-law is a profession Air Drive officer. And we’re all soccer followers.)
Barbara Assadi, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Tuberville has held up greater than 250 routine top-level army promotions due to his opposition to the Pentagon’s abortion insurance policies. In consequence, the Marine Corps is presently with out a confirmed chief for the primary time in a century, and plenty of different promotions, transfers and reassignments in all branches are in limbo.
Since he by no means served within the army, maybe Tuberville doesn’t perceive that army morale and readiness are based mostly on a inflexible command construction the place each soldier from the underside to the highest has no purpose to query the {qualifications}, legitimacy or authority of these above them within the command hierarchy.
Tuberville’s refusal to let these regular and mandatory promotions go ahead for purely non secular causes weakens our nationwide safety.
Gary Vogt, Menifee
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To the editor: Senate Majority Chief Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) has the facility to finish the army promotions blockade.
Merely hold the Senate in session and halt all enterprise till it’s accomplished. Drive a vote each single day, even when it takes 18 hours.
Frankly, Schumer’s “whaddya gonna do” act has handed its sell-by date.
Rusty Austin, Rancho Mirage
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To the editor: So Tuberville considers the state of a girl’s reproductive organs extra necessary than nationwide safety. How very typical of immediately’s Republicans.
Sandra Stubban, Stanton
