Antiwar bluster is high at the moment, echoing popular frustration and grim news from Baghdad.
"Although the proposal responds to popular frustration with rising taxes, it is fundamentally flawed," he said.
But he lacked the focus and administrative skills to steer the nation and became the target of growing popular frustration.
Others, reflecting popular frustration with empty shops and official bureaucracy after 72 years of socialism, were harsher.
The attack against "democrats" comes amid popular frustration with multiparty politics, which to many Soviets seems like background noise as their standard of living worsens.
This kind of popular frustration can fuel the ambitions of democracy's foes.
While the Government gropes for economic answers, popular frustration has been rising.
He appeals to popular frustration by blaming America's trade deficit on other countries.
The Socialists' gains had less to do with their party's message than with popular frustration over unemployment and anger at the government's economic policies.
The source of most of the unhappiness is popular frustration with the high unemployment.