The problem with using the term "technocrat" is that it suggests that D.C. is teeming with experts who know what they are doing. There are none, none that are effective. No one in control in this city knows how to do anything. It is the most incompetent place in the world. Utterly, totally, and completely incompetent.
They know how to peel the taxpeasants for folding money, like a bunch of onions...