What's Wrong With Congress?

This Townhall oped gives 3 main reason's what's wrong with America's legislature:

The problem of a corrupt Congress is compounded by three bigger problems:
1. Congress has effectively escaped citizen control,
2. Congress has far too much power, and
3. Congress will use this scandal not to clean up its act but to further entrench itself.

It seems they continually abuse Bush of abuses of power to cover up their own record. To me no one signify's Congress' trouble than Sen Ted Steven's shameful defense of his "bridge to nowhere".