Tom Jefferson got it right

Today's Washington is exactly what Jefferson was talking about when he penned these words:  "All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body.  The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government.  It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands and not by a single one.  One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as despotic as one... As little will it avail us that they are cjosen by ourselves.  An elective despotism was not the government we fought for....."