The Occupy Wall Street protests represent frustrations Americans across the country have with the economy, senior Obama administration adviser David Plouffe said Tuesday.

“The protests you’re seeing are the same conversations people are having in living rooms and kitchens all across America,” Plouffe said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “People are very frustrated by an economy that does not reward hard work and responsibility, where Wall Street and Main Street don’t seem to play by the same set of rules.”

{mosads}As the anti-corporate protests in New York move into their fourth week, Republicans and Democrats have begun to weigh in. On Monday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) said the protests were brought about by people looking for “scapegoats to attack.” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) called the protests “a mob” trying to pit “Americans against Americans.”

Meanwhile, Democrats seem to be embracing the protests. On Monday the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent out an email asking voters to sign a petition in support of the protests. The email also took a jab at Cantor’s remarks.

“Out-of-touch Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he is ‘increasingly concerned by the growing mobs.’ Mobs? That must be what Republicans refer to as the middle class, or maybe the millions of unemployed Americans across the country,” the email read. “Help us send a message straight to Eric Cantor, Speaker [John] Boehner [R-Ohio] and the rest of reckless Republican leadership in Congress.”