Wednesday, February 5, 2020 is the day the U.S. Senate is scheduled to fail to affirm hold the vote in the U.S. House impeachment of Donald J Trump.
I don’t know of a single person who stills holds any real hope that Senator Mitch McConnell will tell his Republican Majority Caucus to vote their conscience; instead I’m sure there is an early morning GOP Senate private meeting with McConnell and (likely) the current President. In which the entire Republican Caucus (minus that traitor Utah U.S. Senator Mitt Romney) will all write their names in blood on... agree that there will be only one vote and no amendments or other shenanigans and they’ll all FINALLY be done with this and back to the business of cutting taxes for the wealthy and increasing the burden on the Middle and Working classes to make up for it of The important People.
It’s going to happen. Our only response must be as a huge single voice to say HELL NO on November 3, 2020 with as many people as possible participating in the upcoming election.
There is also something else we can do. We can do an end-run around the Constitution and it’s archaic and unnecessary Electoral College (EC) with the National Popular Vote Compact (NPVC).
As of Feb 5, 2020 there are 16 states with 196 EC votes currently in the Compact.
We need enough states with 74 or more EC votes to complete the requirement and enact the Compact for the next presidential election.
You can read the text of the State Law which enacted by a state legislature and signed into law by the Governor of the state, is now in READY TO GO status the day those state with 74 or more EC votes enacts a copy of the NPVC in their states.
Washington State enacted the NPVC in 2009 and this is the full text: RCW 29A.56.300
Proof that it is a placeholder action for amending the Constitution (eventually) is this line:
This agreement shall terminate if the electoral college is abolished.
The point being that Stephen Wolf of Daily Kos elections did a story about a year ago on how we could replace the Electoral College by 2024.
But this image Stephen used in that story is out of date.
See the legend
Has NOT Joined: 247
HAS Joined: 172
Let’s update that for Feb 2020:
Has NOT Joined: 247 223
HAS Joined: 172 196
That’s 24 EC votes worth of states added since Stephen wrote that story — and those 24 happened in 2019, not 2020.
Is it crazy to think enough work could be done to complete the compact and get enough of those green and blue states in the map above to fully enact the NPVC before October THIS YEAR?
Because when the Senate frees Donald Trump sometime in the middle of the day on Wed, Feb 5, 2020 from any responsibility related to his behavior and speaking in public on matters small and large? What do you think he is going to do? Shape up and fly right?
I don’t.
I think he’s gonna let that racist, unhinged, freak-flag of his fly. He’s going to come after anything former President Barack Obama accomplished (c’mon, Trump spent the first few minutes of the 2020 SOTU to again compare how GREAT America is today in relation to how it was mishandled so badly by Obama; in, you know, his addled-brain that’s reality) and attempt to burn it to the ground.
So we all need to do EVERYTHING WE CAN to protect our Republic from Trump and his henchman Moscow Mitch McConnell and Leningrad Lindsey Graham (both currently Republican US Senators). Everything at this point really means everything.
The National Popular Vote Compact might seem too far out there to even consider… but THIS my friends is the Age of Trump.
Remember: Reality TV host, thrice married, bombast and self-promoter Donald John Trump is the sitting president of these United States.
ANYTHING can happen.
Please go to NationaPopularVote.com and click the link to your state on the top of the front page, check your state and see if it has enacted the NPVC and if NOT?
Why not call up your Statehouse Rep and Senator and find out if one or both of them would be willing to sponsor a bill asap to enact it and add your state EC votes to the Compact, towards that goal of 74 more this year?
Ensure that should the recent history of vote turn out with Trump losing the National Popular Vote but getting a sqeaker of a win with the Electoral College votedoes not happen.
W Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016 lost the popular vote but became president. Image the history of the world if neither of them had been inaugurated?
Let’s make sure, should the Democratic nominee win the popular vote, the NPVC makes them the president.