{"id":120456,"date":"2023-10-29T23:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120456"},"modified":"2023-10-29T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:54:13","slug":"democrats-plot-end-run-around-tuberville-blockade-of-military-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120456","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Democrats plot end run around Tuberville blockade of military promotions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/10\/26\/tuberville-democrats-military\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/10\/26\/tuberville-democrats-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;But with the United States\u2019s closest ally now waging a war in the Middle East while critical positions remain on hold, Democrats are getting behind a plan to circumvent Tuberville\u2019s hold. It will only work, however, if some Republicans back it \u2014 a test of whether Republicans\u2019 private frustrations with the Republican Alabama senator\u2019s tactics run deep enough to spur public action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The new plan would require nine or more Republicans to join with Democrats in order to approve a large block of military nominees at once, without infringing on senators\u2019 power to stall nominations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Anger at the affable former college football coach, who has said \u201cthere\u2019s nobody more military\u201d than him, have reached a boiling point since Hamas attacked Israel earlier this month.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;But with the United States\u2019s closest ally now waging a war in the Middle East while critical positions remain on hold, Democrats are getting behind a plan to circumvent Tuberville\u2019s hold. It will only work, however, if some Republicans back it \u2014 a test of whether Republicans\u2019 private frustrations with the Republican Alabama senator\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120457,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120456\/revisions\/120457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}