oversight and accountability powers are meaningless if you don't exercise or enforce them. the erosion of those powers is as much a pelosi legacy as anything else. https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1276211281591230467

Pelosi did as much as she could to avoid impeaching Trump and when the political pressure became too great, pushed for the narrowest and fastest impeachment process.

When it comes to other forms of oversight, Pelosi and her allies have been passive, slow-moving and hyper-cautious, unwilling to use the full extent of their authority.

It's not that impeachment is a panacea. But there is actual political and constitutional value in marshaling the evidence, making a case, and asking elected lawmakers to vote on it. Barr has broken his oath to this country several times over, he should have to answer for it.

And I'll repeat a point I've made a few times before. The House isn't a subordinate institution to the Senate and the White House. It is co-equal in power and has plenty of avenues through which to aggressively check the presidency.

Anyway, my big point here is that republican government is as much about the process as the outcome. Sometimes you do things because *they have to be done*.