A week ago a lot of folks on the Right were incensed when a resolution to censure the ridiculous liar Adam Schiff, who abused his former position as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee to perpetrate the Trump-Russia hoax and other calumnies against former president Donald Trump, fell short of passage because 20 Republicans wouldn’t vote for it.

Garret Graves, the congressman representing Louisiana’s Sixth District, which includes most of Baton Rouge and areas around the capital city, was one of the 20. He explained his vote on the basis of procedural infirmities with the resolution as it was drafted but not on the substance of the censure.

So there was a test of the conviction as Graves expressed it, and both the congressman and the resolution passed it yesterday.

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, a key lawmaker in Democrats’ congressional investigations into former President Donald Trump during his presidency.

The resolution accuses Schiff of misleading the American people while pursuing the congressional investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign as the then-chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and for actions Schiff took leading up to the former president’s first impeachment. Schiff has dismissed the allegations as “false and defamatory.”

The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.

As part of the censure procedure, Schiff stood in the well of the House floor, while House Speaker Kevin McCarthy repeatedly tried to read a brief rule about censure. Schiff was joined by his Democratic colleagues on the House floor who loudly cheered him on and repeatedly interrupted McCarthy.

The effort to censure Schiff, who is running for a US Senate seat in California, cleared a key procedural obstacle earlier Wednesday afternoon after a vote to kill the legislation failed.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, led the effort with a revamped measure on the House floor for his role in the Russia probe and investigating Trump after a similar measure she backed failed last week.

The video of the censure doesn’t particularly reflect a great moment in American legislative history.

Give the Democrats one thing – they’ll stick together no matter how wrong they are, and there’s no limit to the childish and stupid behavior they’ll employ in attempting to get their way.

But the good news here is that the Republicans are practicing a bit of unity as well. Censuring Schiff, as The Federalist’s Tristan Justice noted, is the bare minimum that ought to be done to him.

The formal measure, however, introduced by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is the least Republicans could do. After Schiff polarized the country for years and undermined U.S. relations with a nuclear superpower, lawmakers ought to vote on expulsion. Members on the House Ethics Committee now tasked with investigating Schiff’s tenure should consider such a recommendation.

In January, McCarthy booted Schiff from the Intelligence Committee in one of his first moves presiding over the Capitol chamber.

“I am committed to returning the [House Intelligence Committee] to one of genuine honesty and credibility that regains the trust of the American people,” McCarthy said at the time.

It’s not Schiff’s lying that earned him a lost committee assignment and a formal censure. If lying warranted expulsion from Congress, we’d have no legislature. It’s that as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee with access to the nation’s top secrets, Schiff abused his leadership perch to orchestrate hoax after hoax against the democratically elected president for the apparent crime of winning the 2016 election. His conduct sowed nationwide division, jeopardized national security, and undercut the legitimacy of the House. Now he expects a promotion from California voters to a seat in the Senate when he doesn’t even deserve an office on Capitol Hill.

Listening to troglodytes like the purple-haired Rosa DeLauro chant “Adam! Adam!” and “Shame! Shame!” in favor of a fraud like Schiff makes you scratch your head and wonder how the Democrats manage to get anybody elected. Why anybody would want to vote for these people is a bit of a mystery, Free Stuff aside.

But histrionics aside, Schiff did get censured. And that needed to happen. It would have been nice if McCarthy had called in the sergeant-at-arms to clear out the idiots disrupting the reading of the censure, but the censure happened nonetheless.

And Graves voted with the rest of the Louisiana delegation, or at least his GOP colleagues, to make it happen. That should return him to the good graces of conservative voters in his district and elsewhere, though perhaps with an admonition that going soft on leftist activists on the other side is never a good idea.