Whether it was repeatedly boasting of how impeachment will be a “stain” on Donald Trump’s legacy or expressing fear about what Trump will do in the future or heralding the exercise as a “great day” for “our constitutional democracy,” CNN couldn’t have been giddier about Wednesday night’s impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Inside Politics host John King fretted that there’s “almost two Americas, two parties, two views” while “Democrats have the facts on their side about what the President did, what the conduct was” and Republicans have refused to join them.

“However this ends up to the point being, this is history. This is an indelible stain on the record, the legacy of Donald Trump....[W]hat is the first sentence when people talk about Clinton? He was impeached. That will be the case for Donald Trump no matter how this turns out,” he added.

The Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer replied that “[i]t certainly will be a tremendous stain.”

Chief political analyst Gloria Borger agreed that “[i]t’s an indelible mark on Donald Trump’s legacy” so “that's why he has been so crazed about what is going on.”

Senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson reveled in the fact that Trump is finally facing “consequences” and stated that she’d borrow from someone else, who argued that Trump will now have “a tin can that’s going to be tied around his leg for the rest of his life and trail him.”

The Lead and State of the Union host Jake Tapper then expressed concern about America’s future as long as Trump is President (click “expand”):

One of the things that’s so interesting about what's going to happen now is, you talked, Nia-Malika, about how President Trump until now in a way has been consequence free. Throughout his life, throughout his business and...[o]ne of the things that has gone on in his White House recently is that people who were the ones who could tell him no have basically been exiled, whether it is former chief of staff John Kelly, former Defense Secretary Mattis, etc. The guardrails — the so-called guardrails, have gone. This is something of a guardrail. Congress saying no and even though president trump right now in front of — basking in the adulation of a crowd in Battle Creek, Michigan, one — and that's probably wise, by the way. Because he can't be fuming on Twitter if he’s feeling all the love from his many supporters in Michigan. But one of the things that I'm worried about and concerned about what's going to happen now is, what's the effect on this going to be on President Trump? When he realizes, when this starts to — when this starts to soak in.

Chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin didn’t miss a beat, gushing:

The President was impeached for one reason: Because he deserved it. Because no president has ever done what he did. No president has betrayed his oath the way this President has by taking taxpayer dollars and using it as a bribe, as an extortion, as a lure to get dirt on his political opponents and no president has ever issued a complete blanket refusal to talk, to produce any documents or any witnesses to a legitimate congressional investigation. That's why he was impeached.

CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali similarly couldn’t wait for this day, hailing it as “a very important moment for the country” even if it’s “solemn” because “[i]t’s a reminder of how our system was supposed to work.”

After CNN political commentator Charlie Dent bemoaned how he doesn’t recognize the GOP and that it lacks principles, liberal legal analyst Laura Coates took her turn and predictably basked in the occasion.

Coates bragged that the GOP had failed “to convince the American public this is a political vendetta” and thus it was “a great day for constitutional democracy” that the Articles of Impeachment passed and kept the country alive (click “expand”):

COATES: Well, the Republicans today tried to convince the American public this is a political vendetta and an impeachment in search of a crime or in search of a high crime and misdemeanor. What you see today essentially is breaking down what it really means — ANDERSON COOPER: And four votes away right now. COATES: — yea — to reject the notion you aren’t above the law. What that means is no one is immune from the constitutional oversight that our founding fathers contemplated. They predicted you would need impeachment. That was a forgone conclusion to everyone, that you would have to have a check and balance. What today's vote has been about is whether or not the separation of powers still stands, whether or not you can simply — you can be co-equal branches of government and whether you can certainly be the republican if you can actually keep it. You see this vote right now. It's unfolding. You are a few away from actually capturing this and this is the essence of what democracy is. As one representative said today, it’s a sad day for America, but it's a great day for constitutional democracy.

For a network that, at the end of the day, so desperately hates both the President and his supporters, people were bursting at the seams. We’d expect nothing less from the Jeffrey Zucker-led network.

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s impeachment vote coverage on December 18, click “expand.”