Chuck Schumer is going to follow the rules.

How refreshing.

Schumer of course is upset that he is required to do his job, but Senator Tommy Tuberville has been making his life difficult by refusing to give his consent to consider military promotions through “unanimous consent.”

Tuberville is protesting the Biden administration’s radical change in abortion policy–one which violates the long-standing Hyde Amendment that prohibits federal funding for abortions. Earlier this year Biden approved a policy to provide funding to female servicemembers seeking abortions. Tuberville stood up for his principles and longstanding US law by refusing consent to consider all military promotions as a bloc.

Schumer sets votes to circumvent Tuberville blockade on key military promotions https://t.co/WUK5wehOzW

— Allison Pecorin (@AllisonMPecorin) September 20, 2023

Tuberville’s move didn’t prevent Congress from approving promotions; rather, his refusal merely required Schumer to bring each promotion up by itself. This is the regular order of things, while unanimous consent implies suspending the rules.

The media and the Democrats–but I repeat myself–insisted that Tuberville was endangering US national security by not letting Biden run roughshod over the Republicans and the law. This was always nonsense since Schumer always had the option to follow the rules. Unanimous consent may be common in such circumstances, but regular order is regular order.

Today he finally chose to do so. There are 3 important military promotions that he wants pushed through, and no matter how much he or the media were bullying Senator Tuberville, he wouldn’t relent.

Tuberville has been blocking all military confirmations since February over a Pentagon policy that reimburses service members for out-of-state travel to access abortions.

Roughly 300 military nominees are currently stuck in the Senate, creating what some Pentagon and Biden administration officials — as well as congressional Democrats — have argued is a national security crisis.

Tuberville has been able to gum up the works in the Senate by withholding his consent to move forward with confirming nominations in a bloc, insisting that if Democrats wished to advance nominees, they would need to do them one-by-one. That would break with Senate precedent on how nominations are confirmed.

Schumer has always had the option to sidestep Tuberville by moving nominees individually, but he’s been insistent that doing so would risk politicizing the military and would play into Tuberville’s hand. For the last eight months, it’s been a stalemate.

On Wednesday, Schumer relented on his hard-line stance.

Inserting abortion politics into military matters, according to Schumer, is not politicizing the military. But following the rules of the Senate would be.

This is how Democrats, who constantly claim to defend democracy, actually think. Voting, as the rules require, is too political.

Unfortunately, Tuberville hasn’t won the big battle–to stop the funding of abortions by executive fiat–but he has emasculated Chuck Schumer by stripping him of the “national security” argument. He has always had this option, and he was the one who chose not to use it. If national security really was at risk, he was the one risking it.

If Republicans want to really do the country a favor, they should actually reject some of Biden’s choices. Many of them are awful.

🚨Chuck Schumer just filed cloture on Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr to become the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

As Chief of Staff, Brown has put DEI at the center of the Air Force.

This is his memo from August of last year in which he outlines the Air… pic.twitter.com/hqMbo0e1Vx

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 20, 2023

Republicans are so risk-averse–or should I say criticism-averse–that they let the MSM’s accusations scare them into not fighting the big fights. The great flaw in that–or should I say ONE of the great flaws in that strategy is that no matter what the Republicans do they will suffer from the same criticisms.

Their choices are, in other words, to do something worthwhile and suffer the criticism or do nothing of value and still get criticized. No matter what Republicans do they will be racistsexisttransphobicnazis and threats to all that is good and true and beautiful according to the MSM.

Tuberville has actually been fighting the good fight.

We will never be anything but enemies to the MSM, who see their role in life to destroy Republicans. The only smart thing to do under these circumstances is ignore the noise and get down to the business of doing the right thing.