The articles of impeachment have finally been delivered to the Senate.  The news media covered it with extra piety:

The resolution passed largely along party lines by 228 votes to 193.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed copies of the articles alongside the team of Democratic lawmakers who will prosecute the case against Mr Trump.

The House, controlled by opposition Democrats, impeached the president last month.

The Senate, controlled by Mr Trump's Republican Party, will decide whether to convict and remove him from office.

At a press conference before the signing of the articles, Nancy Pelosi said: "Today we will make history.  When the managers walk down the hall, we will cross a threshold in history — delivering articles of impeachment against the president of the United States for abuse of power and obstruction of the House."

"Journalists" on TV and radio lie routinely, without a conscience.  They vote Democrat.  They love their party.  They have to pay.  The news media have exacerbated the impeachment scam.  And apparent NeverTrump GOP senators have believed the news media lies.

Like poison, cowardice flows through the GOP's bloodstream.  Trump does not fit their mold because he is fearless and speaks his mind.  He's not one of them.  It hurts my ears to hear conservative pundits say we need the Democrat party as some sort of loyal opposition so they can "reach across the aisle."  No more neutrality.  It is now clear from the recent Project Veritas recording that the leftists at the Bernie campaign (and no doubt everywhere else) intend to destroy this nation by violence, if necessary.  There really is a civil war going on.  The Dems must be punished and defeated.

How?

The conservative media have bandied around the idea that the GOP should impeach the next Dem president, no matter what he has done (if there will ever be another Dem president).  But the actual answer is to smash and severely punish the Dems at the election box, for the foreseeable future.  Make them feel the sting in that way.

Easy prediction based on how the GOP senators handle the impeachment nonsense: If the GOP immediately dismiss it, they will take back the House and gain a few seats in the Senate.  When they take back the House, they must impeach Adam Schiff (and some others).  He is unfit to occupy his seat because of all his rule-breaking and lying.  He even read an outright lie in committee.  He must be punished.  No "let bygones be bygones" after November.  Yes, there is a separation of powers, but Trump can encourage them to impeach Schiff — or at least censure and put him in the doghouse for a period of time.

But the battle is not over.  Certain GOP senators are shifting from foot to foot, wondering how they can overthink the Democrat impeachment scam and appear more thoughtful than their knee-jerk Neanderthal supporters.  Wrong.  The Republican opponents of the scam are the ones who see things more clearly.

So what's it going to be?  Are GOP senators going to fight for Trump, or leave him out there all by himself?  "But his tone is so awful!" exclaim some social conservatives.  But that tone comes with the fight.  Grow up!  I have.  I also used to object to it, but now I chuckle at the thought of the Dems and NeverTrumps swooning at it.

GOP senators must not take the impeachment hatchet job seriously, as if legitimate history were being made.  No.  The only history being made here is the historic nonsense of the House kangaroo impeachment inquiry.  The senators had better not call more witnesses.  They had better not hear more "evidence."  They must not overthink the process as if it had any legality whatsoever.  It doesn't.  They must immediately acquit the president, with contemptuous speeches that scold and condescendingly sneer at House Democrats.

James Arlandson's new website is renewal-theology.com, where he has posted What Happens to Children after they Die, The Biblical Case for Limited Government and Low Taxes, Are All Sins Equal?, and Is Our Sin Nature Embedded in Our Mammal Nature?