Weekend thread: What's happening?

GOP harming America in time of crisis: No House speaker; no key ambassadorships, including to Israel; Tuberville keeps hold on critical military positions, hurting U.S. military readiness.

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s official portrait.

The GOP is again showing us how it is absolutely devoid of morality, how it is treasonous, and how it is brutally dangerous to America.

As war engulfed the Middle East and Russia continued its assault on Ukraine, the U.S. continued to be hobbled without a House speaker to lead on assistance, while the GOP had the gall to attack President Biden for his response. And after Republicans went home on Friday yet again, it doesn’t look like there will be a speaker soon—thanks to the GOP.

There is no U.S. ambassador to Israel, Egypt, or Lebanon—at the most critical time in recent history—and the State Department’s top counterterrorism job is vacate, all blocked in the Senate, thanks to the GOP.

And two picks for the Joint Chiefs as well as top officers leading U.S. forces in the Middle East are still being blocked by Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama while his Republican colleagues do nothing, putting the American military and the American people in harm’s way—all thanks to the GOP!