Republicans on Capitol Hill aren’t very interested in congressional oversight of the executive branch, which is a shame but not surprising, given that the president is from their party. What’s more surprising is that Democrats aren’t much interested in real oversight either.

Senate Democrats, whose collusion narrative has been exposed as delusional by special counsel Robert Mueller, spent Wednesday trying to inflict pain on Attorney General William Barr, laughably accusing him of a “cover-up.” They were incanting from a script cobbled together from a sloppy or tendentious reading of a Washington Post article, the timing of which appears calculated to reinforce the Democrats’ relentless campaign against the president. That article made public a letter in which Mueller criticized Barr’s synopsis of Mueller’s report.