So now do we get to ignore Congress?--update

ABC is reporting ("ABC News: Poll: Congress, Bush Share Low Approval") on polling that shows the Democrat Congress has as low an approval rating with the American public as the President; does this mean I get to assert that everything the Democrats want to do is "unpopular" or "anti-democratic" or "out of touch"? I'm guessing not. Here's a quote from the article:

"Democrats agree that the problem is largely Iraq, which has dominated this year's session of Congress while producing little more than this month's Bush veto of a bill requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops. It has also overshadowed House-passed bills on stem cell research, student loans and other subjects that the White House opposes, they say.

'People are unhappy, there hasn't been a lot of change in direction, for example in Iraq,' said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., chairman of House Democrats' campaign effort.

Rising gasoline prices could also be a factor, lawmakers said."

All that is probably true, after all we know the Democrats focus-grouped those designer issues before pushing them through in the first "100 (mega)hours" of the Democrat congress. However, I think part of it is that Democrats are out of touch with the average American. I saw a clever political cartoon recently (here) that showed about a hundred donkeys crammed onto a deep-sea fishing boat (bearing the name "Congress Investigative Committees") each with a fishing line in the water. George W. Bush beat the Democrats in 3 out of 4 elections, but he's not going to be on the ballot the next go-round and voters hardly trust Democrats (inherently) more than Republicans.

Update: Glen Dean has a salient post on this subject here.