Since they control the presidency and Congress, all economic discomfort can be laid at their door.
Some even provided coffee and doughnuts for their beloved doormen picketing at their door.
Football teams, Olympic athletes, and even the American Marines have come knocking at their door.
After all, few people like the Devil knocking at their door for long!
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Sales took off, previously hard-to-find distributors were knocking at their door and competitors rushed to introduce their own small batch brands.
But as fat cat drug companies run out of patents, generics must look like hordes of vicious rats bursting at their door.
It just so happens that the major package delivery services, UPS and FedEx, do that all the time every day: deliver things to people at their door personally.
What you did not reflect in your story is that this involved someone who not only harassed the person via the Internet but also showed up at their door to deliver dead flowers.
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In an attempt to get a comment, Economic Ministry officials: hung up on me, turned me away at their front door and have refused to answer email questions I submitted three weeks ago.
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Yet looking at the neatly-bridled donkeys on the platforms, and listening to them bray, it struck me that really it was too easy to lay all the blame for the straw-like insubstantiality of contemporary British politics at their stable door.
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They slid off their slippers at the door, and, their stiff bodies swaying momentarily beneath the weight, placed the speakers, each taller than Father, in the middle of the hall.
In fact, many of their troubles can be laid at the door of their own politicians, even Dr Mahathir.
An example of this is encouraging people to leave their smartphones at the door before meetings.
Some managers want employees to do that, no less and no more, checking their brains at the door.
The reality that greets new leaders at the door to their new offices, however, is quite the opposite.
Then, at the door of their gingerbread-cute yet massive home, the entire clan greeted us with a Christmas yodel.
We essentially had people in all levels of the organization, we asked people to put their stripes at the door.
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The white students spat on their doors, tore their posters off the wall, and banged on their door at four in the morning.
Leave aside the unhappy fact that, in the hue and cry, Ms Bell's 14-year-old daughter learned her mother's true identity as reporters banged at the door of their safe house.
" Another enduring lesson from him, says Mr. Kagan, is "that you can expect people, whatever they may be, to seek to maximize their power" then a slight pause "unless they're Europeans and have checked their brains at the door, so mortified are they, understandably, by what happened to them in the 20th century.
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Indeed, some of the editors interested in driving the car have already had to be turned away at the door because their destinations were to areas that either didn't have public stations or the stations that were public required accounts that the magazine hasn't yet established (few of them actually take credit cards).
These might include leaving tech devices at the door or limiting their use to "tech breaks" every 45 minutes, she says.
But when it comes to car-buying, normally chauvinistic Russians seem only too happy to leave their patriotism at the showroom door.
Scientists who neglect to check their pet theories at the door leave themselves open to confirmation bias (especially when performing studies that are not blinded).
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That is why the nation needs diplomats and communicators who are political warriors, and not simply ex-politicians who checked their political instincts at the door when they entered the State Department.
Working in tandem may mean checking their monkish credentials at the door, but for these two masters, designing as a duo may yet yield even better results than going it alone.
The industry has been on the back foot in the face of these trends with sales - excluding door-to-door transactions - at their lowest level in a decade.
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People came into the bank in coats and gloves, brushing the snowflakes off their shoulders and hair at the door, smiling to themselves, gladdened by the brightness of the day.
The way things work at present, they're taken to their local District General Hospital accident and emergency department, where they're sometimes met at the door by a junior doctor with little experience of their condition.
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