A regular reader has shared the concerns of some that focusing on impeachment now is a bad tactic. Nonetheless, apparently, so (as noted last time, post 999) is oversight ... only petty partisan revenge, you see. Glenn Greenwald discusses the point, adding to the reality that people are concerned about the "MSM" for a reason.
I will just link to his blog overall since he also adds another interesting point on the Richard Cohen editorial that reaffirms my sentiment -- the need for passion, which is all to often (even by "allies") deemed as a bad thing. I'd add that his bashed editorial underlines the value of freedom of the press -- the fact his sentiments are wrong-minded does not mean they are not shared. The importance of recognizing such things as being "out there" and criticism (in all shades of the word) of them is one value of blogs. It references my long ago (talking high school here) use of editorials as sounding boards -- a means of debate and clarity of my opinions.
As to congressional oversight generally, President Wilson (in his political scientist days) noted:
It is the proper duty of a representative body to look diligently into every affair of government and to talk much about what it sees. It is meant to be the eyes and the voice, and to embody the wisdom and will of its constituents. Unless Congress have and use every means of acquainting itself with the acts and the disposition of the administrative agents of the government, the country must be helpless to learn how it is being served; and unless Congress both scrutinize these things and sift them by every form of discussion, the country must remain in embarrassing, crippling ignorance of the very affairs which it is most important that it should understand and direct.
But, like vetoing, respecting judicial review, not breaking the law, and so forth, just doing one's job is a bad thing in today's Republican political climate.