A member of Congress has gone there! Called for Electoral College to STOP TRUMP

[The Hitman]

[link:https://twitter.com/jahimes/status/808116879558660098|

@jahimes
We're 5 wks from Inauguration & the President Elect is completely unhinged. The electoral college must do what it was designed for.

Edit: link didn't work, here it is
https://twitter.com/jahimes/status/808116879558660098

Jim Himes (D-CT)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That is good news, but can you identify the Congressional member?

[Ohioblue22]

3. Found nothing on google

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. See post #6. n/t

[hellofromreddit]

5. Link

https://twitter.com/jahimes/status/808116879558660098

[The Hitman]

15. My bad

The link didn't autogenerate. Fixed now.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. No worries! Computer weirdness happens all the time.

[INdemo]

32. Yes he just won re-election to the House

https://ballotpedia.org/Jim_Himes

[napi21]

2. Is that just wishful thinking on your part, or is it real? If real, who the hell is it? nt

[Ohioblue22]

4. Found nothing with google

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. See post #6 n/t

[Ohioblue22]

12. Cool thanks..... nt

[brooklynite]

6. Jim Himes: A Democrat from a Blue State...yippee

That'll make the difference

[mopinko]

10. so all those times blue state dems didnt speak out and folks here

wanted to hang them, that was cool.
now a blue state dem speaking out is nothing.
which is it? doing you duty, or doing nothing?

[brooklynite]

23. I respect his comments; I'm not going to get excited that this is a game-changer

[El Mimbreno]

34. Every little bit helps

Every post, every supporter, every demonstration, letter, phone call, email. Just to keep the pressure on. Get the electors to see their duty as Americans instead of just party kiss-asses.

[whathehell]

45. Yes

that seems clear.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. And he makes maple syrup! All right! n/t

[jalan48]

9. Glad to hear it. Bravo Mr. Hines!

[liberal N proud]

13. I really wish posts would be more than click bait

Click here to learn nothing more than the heading untill you click on another link.

[The Hitman]

14. Yeah yeah

I made a mistake. Fixed now. Geez.

[flamingdem]

17. Bravo Jim Himes!!!!!

[politicaljunkie41910]

18. It funny how the "Hamilton Faithless" bunch have asked Dems to join them

in not voting for Trump but for another Republican of their choosing. And according to them they are now recruiting Dems to join them, but they would have to be willing to cast their vote for another Repug as the Hamilton Faithless are not willing to vote for Hillary even though she has garnered more than 2.6M legitimate votes than Trump. I say no way should they agree to such terms.

Should they be able to pull it off, they'd just pick another repugnant member of the GOP who wants to lower corporate tax rates to 15%, allow corporations to repatriate profits sitting off shore somewhere which they will use to create jobs here in America (ha ha), and eliminate the inheritance tax, and allow Wall St bankers and Hedgefund managers to keep treating their earned income as Carried Interest which allows them to pay federal taxes at the Capital Gains rate of 10% and 20% while paying no Social Security and Medicare Taxes. The Repugs will lower taxes while allowing Trump to go on an Infrastructure Spending spree and Defense Spending spree which will blow a hole in the National Debt which will leave Paul Ryan with no choice but to gut Social Security and Medicare benefits for the masses because we can longer pay our debt at the current levels because Wall St. bankers are calling for the Fed to hike the federal interest rates at the same time.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. NO!! I don't want that!!!

Goddammit! Close to 3million more votes for Hillary than orangePuke, she has to get the nomination!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

24. Republicans would go batshit if a person nobody voted for was put in office

1). Not Trump

2). That bullshit selective "this is tyranny" response they have

[AlexSFCA]

28. non-starter

There is a push to cast a vote for John Kasich - I'll take it. I am pretty sure any push for electors to cast a vote for Clinton will be viewed as partisan and it's simply not productive for us to think otherwise. We are fighting to protect democracy by asking electors to fulfill their constitutional duty by blocking a demagogue influenced by foreign power. When it comes to Trump, impeachement won't work cause the house is demoralized and senate alone is not sufficient.

I understand there is a possibility that the house will vote for Trump anyway but it's not a given. Paul Ryan is at odds with Trump in regards to many issues including free trade. I think most republicans will be comfortable with Kasich.

CIA is throwing us a bone and moral ground for electors to become 'faithless'.

[RealityChik]

30. Kasich already declined...

The recounts were a bust. The perpetrators of ballot theft hid their crimes well. Hillary Clinton, not Jill Stein should have led the recount charge to reclaim what was rightfully hers. But she wimped out when we needed her leadership the most, "sour grapes" be damned!

At this point, I'll be pleased if the EC would just deny Trump the 270 votes he needs to be president. Yes, Congress will choose another republican. If I survived George W, I can survive anybody the repubs appoint as president. I can cool my jets for 4years while we rebuild the Dem party and stage a quiet revolution.

I support only the objective to remove Trump, his evil offspring and the cabinet from hell.

[azureblue]

37. But But

What about all the nudes of Melania?

[DK504]

41. They've made the voter purging

a seemingly legitimate action. Gerrymandering and purging have been normalized by the media.

There has been no pressure on the electoral college to do what is right, time for them to step up and save the Republic.

[forjusticethunders]

31. Torn on this.

By RIGHT it should by Hillary. On the other hand, batshit Republican versus Trump is that you get the batshit Republican except the non-Trump batshit Republican would presumably not be a stooge for Russian authoritarianism, nor would accidentally a nuclear war with China.

The main issue is that Republicans are far more willing to swallow Trump - many of them won't mind being a Russian satellite as long as they send America back to the 1920s.

[mopinko]

33. the only credible action the electors can take it to seat hillary.

period.

[Abouttime]

36. You got that!

The Presidency is rightfully hers.

[treestar]

39. I agree. The only benefit would be not having Orange Cheeto

with the nuclear codes. But that is a big something benefit. It would be better to have any regular R in the Oval Office.

[duffyduff]

42. I'd rather have Trump and go through an impeachment or 25th amendment removal,

than this stupid stunt by these idiots who cannot bear to vote for the person who actually won the election.

Fuck that shit.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. Thank you, Congressman Himes!

[doc03]

20. Where are all of the big guns, hiding under their desk?

[Fast Walker 52]

22. it's awkward-- this twitter essay explains to some extent

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/808045818024497157

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

25. now if one of them can just mutter out the word "treason"

[AgadorSparticus]

26. +1

[azureblue]

38. That word

has been used for McConnell... He delayed and investigation and buried the information to help a foreign country influence a US election....

That is treason...

[RAFisher]

27. I'm sure a Democrat from Connecticut will convince all those Republican electors to change...

Know your audience. If we're trying to convince some GOP electors to change their mind I don't think the Congressman is helping.

[Pachamama]

29. About time! Now how about other members of the people's house get some courage?

[Coyotl]

35. One down, 434 to go.

One week to go for the electors.

Meanwhile, will we win by more than 3 million votes? Friday we jumped to 2.83 million whey NYC reported.

[Dopers_Greed]

40. I wonder if some sort of deal could be struck?

Like, the EC chooses Hillary in exchange for the repugs getting to choose Scalia's replacement?

While not ideal, that certainly is better than Herr Dumpf being President. There may not be much more than a smoking crater in the ground to "take back" in 2020 if that happens.

[duffyduff]

44. I like that idea, but of course it won't work with these stupid partisans. n/t

[hueymahl]

43. We can always dream! NT

[bonniebgood]

46. If anyone thinks 9/11 or our current 11/9 coup will be reversed think

again. nothing will change this unless we have a do over. This was a coup. America need to VOTE again.

[humbled_opinion]

47. With enough evidence of a

hack by Russia on our election, why wouldn't there be a legal case to make that a do-over is required. Better to get it right than suffer consequences of getting it wrong.