"It appears that the president wants a democratic congress and senate in 2006." Regardless his intention(s), that'll be the result as sure as God made little green apples.
"Saying there is little he can do just pisses people off."
People don't like "leaders" who're "helpless", I know I don't.
The nation has an election coming up in a few months and the citizens will surely express their anger at the polls.
"His comments show a callous disregard for common people."
Maybe, maybe not.
Depends who's ears the impotent attempt at sympathy falls.
In any event the Liberal-Socialists will pitch-in to help this POTUS clarify his comment(s).
...all the way up to November's elections. ;^)
The Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gassett offered some remarkable insight into the human mind in his classic essay from the 1930s about the Communist uprisings across Europe, "The Revolt of the Masses." His basic premise was that an increasingly complex world would become increasingly hostile to democratic rule, since fewer and fewer people would be capable of understanding how things work even as these people became increasingly educated and competent in their own specific lines of work. The problem with these "modern barbarians," as he called them, was that the line between the natural and man-made world becomes hazy to them, and they eventually see the complex world around them as nothing more than an extension of the natural world.
"Their response to a bread shortage," he said, in describing the irrational thought processes that would eventually come to dominate a society filled with such people, "is to burn down the bakery."