In this post regarding Erickson’s support for Senator Tuberville (R-AL/FL) I mentioned that approving the promotions of American military officers en masse was more efficient, at a few minutes, than processing each promotion at a time. Of course.
But just how much more efficient? CNN/Politics figured it out:
It would take the Senate approximately 700 hours of floor time to individually process and vote on hundreds of military officers whose promotions are being blocked by Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Congressional Research Service concluded in a memo released on Tuesday.
The number of pending nominations has only increased since the memo was written in late August, from 273 to over 300 today.
At 10 hours a day, which I figure is about as much as can be expected from this elderly mass of citizens, it would take 70 days. Not interlaced with other Senate duties, such as working on critical budget issues and raising the debt ceiling.
Just promoting officers, ten hours a day. That’s ten weeks of work, with no days off, not even weekends.
Tuberville is plumbing the depths in his quest for endangering the country. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should be chasing him out of the chamber with a baseball bat, and not mouthing invalid excuses for him.
