Basically. The Constitution was written to make sure the three branches could check each other but not run roughshod over each other. They somehow didn't anticipate a system where an entire faction has enough power to just jam all the wheels and proceed to laugh about it.
It can be rough to hear this when we saw someone in that very office recently flagrantly disregard the Constitution for any reason or whim he had, so I get where a lot of the people saying this come from. "We go high, they go low" works when you have opponents with a conscience (not Republicans)
