The man who once drew 200,000 people in Berlin is now lucky to fill half an arena in Cleveland. For god’s sake, man, this was billed as the Democrats’ final big election rally.
The man who once drew 200,000 people in Berlin is now lucky to fill half an arena in Cleveland.
For god’s sake, man, this was billed as the Democrats’ final big election rally. The one that was going to close the enthusiasm gap. The one that was going to recapture the magic.
Nevertheless, you could have fired a cannon in this arena on Sunday despite the fact that this get-out-the-vote event featured both President Obama and Vice President Biden.
Last week I witnessed the effects of media indoctrination, first hand, when I went to do some volunteer work at Sharron Angle’s campaign headquarters.
Guest post by Sonny Palermo
We all hate the media. We loathe their liberal bias. We detest their posturing of neutrality. We abhor their selective enforcement, pounding Republicans every chance they get, handing out free passes to Democrats for the same offenses and all the while hoping no one notices.
Political campaigns aren't always glamorous, but someone has to do it
We notice. And we call BS on them. We make light of it here, we use humor and sarcasm to bring your attention to it, but we take their insidious agenda seriously, because we know their intent and the damage they cause. Last week I witnessed it, first hand, when I went to do some volunteer work at Sharron Angle’s campaign headquarters.
After filling out the requisite forms and showing them my ID, the office manager showed me a list of over a dozen areas that volunteers can participate in, including door knocking, putting up signs, and poll watching (Yes, poll watching. Voter fraud and abuse by Democrats is real, and the campaign has attorneys and supporters at every location watching out for and recording any shenanigans). Their research shows that phoning voters at home is the most effective use of volunteers so they asked if I would help man the phone banks and I complied.
The office was a beehive of activity, the cubicles filled with volunteers of all ages, with a slight lean towards seniors. I was given a script, with an opening, “Hi, I’m (your name here) and I’m calling on behalf of Sharron Angle for Senate” and two questions: “Will you be voting Republican in this election cycle?” and “Will you be participating in early voting?”
The objective was to reach out to as many voters as you can, remind them that early voting ends on Friday, October 9th, and answer any questions they may have regarding Sharron’s stance on the issues. Most phone calls I made were met with answering machines. I also got hung up on a lot, as can be expected when cold calling people at home. But all those misses were worth it when you get a “hit” – an undecided independent voter, providing the opportunity to discuss the issues.
I made six hundred phone calls that day, and am proud to say I believe I made more than a few converts. Unfortunately, as stated above, I also witnessed firsthand the damage that the liberal media can inflict. I spoke with a registered voter who said, “Angle? She’s with the Tea Party, right? They’re all just a bunch of racists!”
I was tempted to reply, “No, you’ve been misinformed. Why, Sharron’s husband is black!” but I doubted the campaign would share my sense of humor. I asked if she had ever been to a rally, and she said “No.”
“Then why do you think they’re racists?” I said.
“Because I saw it on TV.”
I pointed out the biased coverage of the networks, but there was no changing her mind – it was already perverted by the media. Sadly, she wasn’t the only voter I spoke with who had been indoctrinated. The mainstream media is attempting to shape the nation, not report on it. It’s our job to stop them. And we have to succeed, because the alternative is a government-run nanny state, exorbitant taxation and the loss of our personal freedom.
Success can be achieved. You just have to get involved. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines – stand and be heard.
Vote.
Volunteer.
One person CAN make a difference, as I learned in my day at Sharron Angle’s headquarters. A hundred hangups and answering machines are well worth it when you reach that one undecided voter and get to point out the lies of the media, the lies in the campaign ads, when you’re able to educate a fellow citizen on the issues and convince him to listen to both sides of the debate and then make a well informed decision, knowing that when he does it will bring an end to the freedom-suffocating, tax-and-spend crazy, reckless regime of Obama, Reid, Pelosi and their ilk.
I made a difference in this campaign and I have never felt more patriotic in my life. It’s a feeling I highly recommend to you.
Will you watch MSNBC just to see Olbermann’s, Matthews’ and Maddow’s heads explode? Will you try ABC because they’ve signed up Andrew Breitbart and Dana Loesch as contributors? Will you tune to CBS to watch Katie Couric’s final national election coverage?
Will you watch Fox News so you can support the home team as the results of the Democrats’ debacle roll in?
Will you watch MSNBC just to see Olbermann’s, Matthews’ and Maddow’s heads explode?
Will you try ABC because they’ve signed up Andrew Breitbart and Dana Loesch as contributors?
Will you tune to CBS to watch Katie Couric’s final national election coverage?
Or will you switch around to get the best (and worst) of all worlds?
It’s open for discussion. Let us know who you’ll watch and why.
Sarah Palin had some choice words for the media in Alaska when she appeared on Fox News Sunday. Specifically, she was discussing the reporters who accidentally recorded themselves plotting smears against Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller when she called them “corrupt bastards.”
Sarah Palin had some choice words for the media in Alaska when she appeared on Fox News Sunday.
Alaska Republican Joe Miller has every right to hate the media. The state’s top TV station was stupid enough to leave a voicemail in which the news director and an unidentified reporter are clearly heard plotting to create last second smears against the Senate candidate.
Alaska Republican Joe Miller has every right to hate the media. The state’s top TV station was stupid enough to leave a voicemail in which the news director and an unidentified reporter are clearly heard plotting to create last second smears against the Senate candidate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftAylfUoogg
Here’s how BigGovernment.com tells the sordid tale:
The following voice mail message was inadvertently left on the cell phone of Joe Miller campaign spokesperson Randy DeSoto.
The voices are believed to be those of the news director for CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA, along with assignment editor Nick McDermott, and other reporters, openly discussing creating, if not fabricating, two stories about Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Joe Miller.
… It was later authenticated by McDermott, who sent a text to Randy DeSoto stating, “Damn iPhone… I left you a long message. I thought I hung up. Sorry.”
Clearly the reporters were conspiring to set up some type of smear of Joe Miller. With glee, they even cite a recent controversy over an incident involving the Rand Paul campaign, while discussing how they would spread the story via social media after whatever incident they had in mind came off.
The Miller campaign responded immediately:
Now the media has gone from trying to create stories to openly lying. The audio was pulled directly from the voicemail message. Nothing was altered. “Everything that was recorded on my phone is what we released without change,” said Randy Desoto.
Joe Miller hates the media. Welcome to the club, Joe.
Who thought this was a good idea? Joe Sestak’s new commercial may qualify as not only the most tasteless campaign commercial of the year, but the stupidest.
The race for United States Senate in Pennsylvania has gone to the dogs. Literally.
Who thought this was a good idea? Joe Sestak’s new commercial may qualify as not only the most tasteless campaign commercial of the year, but the stupidest.
Teri Davis Newman is the Republican nominee for Congress in Illinois-12. She’s running against fat-and-happy, 12-term incumbent Democrat Jerry Costello, who hasn’t had a real challenge in god knows how long.
We love Teri Davis Newman. She’s been reading IHateTheMedia.com and leaving pithy comments since about day three.
Teri’s the Republican nominee for Congress in Illinois-12. She’s running against fat-and-happy, 12-term incumbent Democrat Jerry Costello, who hasn’t had a real challenge in god knows how long.
That's the Honorable Congressperson Teri Davis Newman to you
She’s smart, spunky, and not afraid to say what needs to be said even if it’s not the “smart” thing to say. For some unknown reason, she agreed to do IHateTheMedia.com’s first congressional candidate interview.
As you might expect, her answers are better than our questions.
1. If you were a witch, would you be Glenda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz, Samantha from Bewitched or Nancy Pelosi?
Nancy Pelosi isn’t qualified to be a witch. The only magic she’s ever performed is convincing the people of California-8 that she’s not a psychotic Botox-addicted knuckle-dragging vodka-swilling spotted owl-loving liberal. The rest of the country knows better.
2. On gay marriage, would you vote as a typical conservative and be against it, or would you be in favor of it because as a wedding planner it could increase your income?
I’m not one to sell my integrity for money.
3. You can invite any three people – living or dead- to dinner. How do you split the bill and under whose name is the reservation made?
I’ll make the reservation and pay the bill. They’re dead so it’s a cheap date.
4. Beatles or Stones? PC or Mac? Ninja or pirate? Hayak or Keynes?
Stones, PC, Ninja, Hayek
5. Celebrated movie The Graduate is left famously unresolved. In your estimation what happened to characters Benjamin and Elaine after they departed from the bus?
They get married, have 2.3 children. Subsequently they divorce and Elaine takes half of the money he made in “plastic.” Sadly, Benjamin is killed in a prison riot where he was doing time for insider trading.
Whaaaaa. We thought the Democrats had already exhausted their supply of weak reasons they’re going to lose Tuesday’s election. But they’ve come up with a new one.
Whaaaaa. We thought the Democrats had already exhausted their supply of weak reasons they’re going to lose Tuesday’s election. But they’ve come up with a new one.
Proof that Republicans aren't afraid to go out in the rain
TheHill.com has the inclement information:
In more bad news for Democrats, rain is in the forecast for much of the country on Election Day.
Weather tracking websites, including weather.com and The Old Farmer’s Almanac, are calling for rain in the Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast regions, with chances for precipitation in other parts of the country as well.
According to Laurel Harbridge, a Northwestern University political science professor, said GOP voters are not typically discouraged by rain. “Republicans are helped by bad weather…it does harm Democratic prospects.”
Wendy Schiller, a political science professor at Brown University, echoed Harbridge. “Bad weather almost always hurts Democrats,” she said. “The traditional Democratic base tends to include lower income people and the elderly. Both of those demographic groups have a hard time getting to the polls.”
Nonsense. Of course, Democrats are capable of voting in the rain. But sometimes, when it gets really wet, they only vote once.
Pity CBS and the New York Times. They can see the Republican tidal wave coming, but their liberal bias is so strong that they can’t bring themselves to admit the size of what they see.
Pity CBS and the New York Times. They can see the Republican tidal wave coming, but their liberal bias is so strong that they can’t bring themselves to admit the size of what they see.
Take the results of the latest CBS/New York Times poll, for example:
CBS and the New York Times love black people 77% more than the U.S. Census Bureau does
With the midterm elections less than a week away, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds that Republicans continue to hold an advantage over Democrats in the generic House ballot. Forty-six percent of likely voters say they plan to vote Republican, while 40 percent say they will vote Democrat.
Americans are divided in their views of the job President Obama is doing: 45% approve, while 47% disapprove.
If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the poll, however, you’ll find the following paragraph:
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,173 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone October 22-26, 2010. An oversample of African Americans was interviewed, for a total of 273 interviews with African Americans.
What this means is that CBS and the New York Times have stacked the deck in this poll two different ways. And both of them lessen the impact of the aforementioned tidal wave.
First, they oversampled blacks, who are not just predominantly Democrat, but overwhelmingly Democrat. Blacks are approximately 13% of the population, yet in this poll they account for 23% of the respondents.
Obama’s not on the ballot and it is widely expected that black turn-out will decrease in this election, not increase. So what rationale could possibly justify oversampling by 77% (10/13) an ethnic group that voted 95% Democrat in the last election?
Based on this, we assume somewhere around 170% of blacks will vote Democrat in this election. Of course, this will necessarily require a major “get out the vote” effort in cemeteries across the country, but those are traditional Democrat strongholds.
Second, self-identified party breakdown (weighted) in this poll shows 28% Republicans, 38% Democrats and 45% Independents. Do CBS and the New York Times really think Democrats outnumber Republicans by 35% (10/28) in a year when Republicans are expected to dominate the balloting? For god’s sake, man, Obama only won by 7% in in 2008 in what was widely considered a runaway election.
To show just how distorted these figures are, on the same day this CBS/New York Times poll was released, Gallup released a poll on the composition of likely 2010 voters. It shows 55% Republican/Lean Republican, 40% Democrat/Lean Democrat and 4% Independent.
Of course, it’s always possible that Gallup oversampled racist, sexist, homophobic conservatives. But we doubt it.
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (that’s what the Democrat Party calls itself in Minnesota) sent out this remarkably offensive “Ignore the Poor” anti-Catholic mailer.
Congratulations, Democrats. Now that we’ve seen this ad, nominations for Most Offensive Ad of the Year are closed and you have officially been declared the winners.
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (that’s what the Democrat Party calls itself in Minnesota) sent out this remarkably offensive “Ignore the Poor” anti-Catholic mailer.
How loud would they squeal if someone – anyone – would have run an ad this offensive about Muslims?
In the sleepy little town of Troy, New York there is a case of what is being referred to as “massive voter fraud.” The shock isn’t that it was perpetrated by Democrats, it’s that ACORN wasn’t involved.
In the sleepy little town of Troy, New York there is a case of what is being referred to as “massive voter fraud.” The shock isn’t that it was perpetrated by Democrats, it’s that ACORN wasn’t involved.
Perhaps this map will help Democrats who've lost their way in Troy, New York
FoxNation has the details:
A special prosecutor investigating allegations of voter fraud, Trey Smith, is collecting DNA from the majority of the city council all Democrats. Five city councilmen, including the council president, as well as four other city and county public officials and political operatives, have been ordered to or have had their saliva swabbed for DNA samples to compare to absentee ballots and absentee ballot applications that were allegedly forged.
Wait – it gets worse:
It has been alleged that Democrats tried to steal the primary election for city council and county legislature, by forging absentee ballots and ballot applications.
However, the Democrats tried to handle the crisis in true Democratic fashion. First of all, “No comment,” was apparently the first comment off the lips of Democratic Council member Gary Galuski and several other public officials who are under investigation.
Sarah Couch, who is not under investigation, said that when the story broke last year another councilman asked her to issue a press release that would “’point blame at the Republican Party,’ and she refused to do so.”
Finally, “One of the others who allegedly gathered absentee ballot applications, former Troy Housing worker and Democratic Committeeman Anthony DeFiglio” said “’what appears as a huge conspiracy to non-political persons, is really a normal political tactic that went out of control.’”
Just a normal political tactic. Really? That sounds familiar. Isn’t that what they said about the “Louisiana Purchase” and the “Nebraska Kickback”?
Hopefully when these clowns are convicted they’ll be placed in a nice normal jail cell.
“I never asked President Obama for his endorsement and what’s going on here is really Washington insider politics at its worst,” Caprio said. “He can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I am concerned.”
Remember just two short years ago when the election of Barack Obama ushered in an era of love and peace and harmony? That’s officially over. Even among Democrats.
As far as we know, Frank Caprio has not told Miss Rhode Island to shove it
ABC News has details of the Rhode Island rebuff:
This morning on WPRO Radio Providence, Democratic Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio, whom President Obama has not endorsed, lashed out.
“I never asked President Obama for his endorsement and what’s going on here is really Washington insider politics at its worst,” Caprio said. “He can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I am concerned.”
Deferring to his friendship with former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the former Republican senator currently an independent gubernatorial candidate who endorsed the president in 2008, the president has not endorsed Caprio.
Recent polls indicate that Caprio and Chafee are in a tight race. According to the Providence Journal, Caprio was unaware that the president would not be endorsing him until a reporter told his campaign the news over the weekend.
Let’s just say that Caprio is not happy with President Obama.
Caprio today charged that the president is “coming into Rhode Island treating us like an ATM machine. I will wear it as a badge of honor and a badge of courage that he doesn’t want to endorse me as a Democrat.“
Note that Caprio doesn’t object to Barack Obama treating the American people like an ATM for the last two years.
Here’s a commercial that will give you the kind of chills you may not have felt since viewing Ronald Reagan’s Morning In America commercial. Anyone who can watch this and not vote for Marco Friggin’ Rubio is obviously an anti-American, communist son of a bitch.
Here’s a commercial that will give you the kind of chills you may not have felt since viewing Ronald Reagan’s Morning In America commercial. Anyone who can watch this and not vote for Marco Friggin’ Rubio is obviously an anti-American, communist son of a bitch.
In one week, Marco will become the next Republican senator from Florida. He’s conservative. He’s telegenic. He’s a great speaker. He’s the son of immigrants. He’s Hispanic. He believes in American exceptionalism. And he’s married to a former NFL cheerleader. For god’s sake, man, what more could you ask of a candidate?
Far be it from us to stick our necks out, but we think we’re looking at the future of the Republican party.
Democrat Congressman Robert Brady put his foot deep into his mouth on MSNBC on Monday, but trusty leftist apologist Andrea Mitchell came to the rescue.
Democrat Congressman Robert Brady put his foot deep into his mouth on MSNBC on Monday, but trusty leftist apologist Andrea Mitchell came to the rescue.
Mitchell: What is the secret here to turn-out? In the old days, in the old machine days, it used to be what we called “walking around money,” handing out money to get people to the vote. Is it still the case? What do you do? What is the magic of the Democratic machine in Philadelphia?”
Brady: We still have the street money and we’re very knowledgeable.
The meaning seems clear. Brady’s admitting that the Democrats buy votes in Philadelphia. In fact, it seemed so clear that Mitchell revisited the issue five minutes later just to give Brady a way to explain away his previous statement.
Does anyone doubt that the producer was in the booth screaming, “Andrea! Go back and give this moron some cover.”
This may look and sound like a Saturday Night Live skit, but it’s for real. This is Chris Erickson, candidate for the U.S. Senate representing Vermont’s Marijuana Party.
This may look and sound like a Saturday Night Live skit, but it’s for real. This is Chris Erickson, candidate for the U.S. Senate representing Vermont’s Marijuana Party.
Seriously. Vermont has a Marijuana Party, which goes a long way toward explaining the phrase “Vermont Governor Howard Dean.”
The only way this commercial could be better is if the candidate’s name had been Mary Jane.
Always-outspoken state Sen. Rickey Hendon on Saturday took aim at Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Brady at a “get out the vote” rally on the West Side: “I’ve never served with such an idiotic, racist, sexist, homophobic person in my life.”
Illinois State Senator Rickey Hendon must be a happy man – after laboring in relative political obscurity for years, he’s hit the national news twice in a week.
Is there a single rational Democrat in the entire state of Illinois?
Last week we featured the ebonics commercial he ran earlier this year during his campaign for Illinois lieutenant governor. If you thought that was extreme, wait until you hear what he said on Saturday.
The Chicago Sun-Times has the bizarre details:
Always-outspoken state Sen. Rickey Hendon on Saturday took aim at Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Brady at a “get out the vote” rally on the West Side.
“I’ve never served with such an idiotic, racist, sexist, homophobic person in my life,” Hendon said before introducing Gov. Quinn. “If you think that the minimum wage needs to be three dollars an hour, vote for Bill Brady. If you think that women have no rights whatsoever, except to have his children, vote for Bill Brady. If you think gay and lesbian people need to be locked up and shot in the head, vote for Bill Brady.”
Other Democrats were immediately seen scurrying away from the Hendon as quickly as possible.
Republican Thaddeus McCotter is the only politician willing to say, “Washington is nuts.” And the only politician willing to do his commercials over a mean ass rock ‘n roll guitar.
Republican Thaddeus McCotter is the only politician willing to say, “Washington is nuts.” And the only politician willing to do his commercials over a mean ass rock ‘n roll guitar.
In this clip, South Carolina Democrat Alvin Greene works his way into the background as a local TV reporter does a live story from the fair.
Apparently, when your campaign’s on a limited budget, you’re forced to do whatever you can to get TV time. Even if it means paying your way into the South Carolina State Fair and making a fool of yourself.
In this clip, South Carolina Democrat Alvin Greene works his way into the background as a local TV reporter does a live story from the fair. That’s Alvin wearing the green T-shirt and cap just over the reporter’s left shoulder. Yeah, that’s right. He’s the one waving and making rabbit ears over the reporter’s head.
Amazingly enough, 11% of South Carolina voters still say they’re going to vote for this guy.
If that South Carolina election doesn’t work out for you, Alvin, move to California. We’ve already elected Governor Moonbeam and Barbara Boxer, so your odds are considerably better out here.
R.I.P. Alan Grayson. The obnoxious Florida Democrat has been written off by his own party and will soon be carted off in the hearse of political history.
R.I.P. Alan Grayson. The obnoxious Florida Democrat has been written off by his own party and will soon be carted off in the hearse of political history.
Looks like we won't have Alan Grayson to kick around much longer
HotlineOnCall.com has the info:
The Democratic Congressional Committee is spending millions of dollars in key districts around the country on late independent expenditures, demonstrating the districts Democrats believe can be saved from a national wave — and the members the party believes are already too far behind their Republican rivals to save.
Where the DCCC didn’t spend money is as indicative as where it did. With two weeks to go, Democrats are using their checkbooks as acknowledgment that nearly a dozen members are beyond saving.
The DCCC did not spend money on behalf of Reps. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio), Debbie Halvorson (D-Ill.), Betsy Markey (D-Colo.), Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.), Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.) and Steve Kagen (D-Wis.), the filings show. Republicans believe those seven seats are all but guaranteed to fall their way.
Adios, Alan. Hopefully, you’ve learned that it’s one thing to be hated by conservatives, but another thing to be hated by your own constituents.
The lovely and gracious Jan Schakowsky has always been an unabashed socialist. Now we discover that she’s also an unabashed thug.
The lovely and gracious Jan Schakowsky has always been an unabashed socialist. Now we discover that she’s also an unabashed thug.
At a Monday night fundraiser and rally, the Chicago Democrat said, “All around the country, people are trying to replicate what we do in Chicago. They, we have a tradition of knockin’ on doors, of pulling people out. You know, people, they talk about ‘message’ and ‘persuasion.’ Here’s our message: ‘I don’t get off your doorstep until you get out to the polls and vote.’ That’s our message! That’s our message!”
Raise the dead. Threaten the living. That’s how you win elections in Illinois, my friends.
Phu Nguyen, a candidate for the California State Assembly, decided that it would be a good idea to record his own hip hop masterpiece called “Phu the Phu the best.”
Wow. Just wow. Phu Nguyen, a candidate for the California State Assembly, decided that it would be a good idea to record his own hip hop masterpiece called “Phu the Phu the best.”
Yes, of course, he’s a Democrat.
Nguyen’s lyrical masterpiece includes this catchy refrain:
I say Phu the Phu the best,
Phu the Phu the best
IHateTheMedia.com’s resident music expert (the Administrator’s 22-year old son) tells us it’s a parody of a hip hop song by Drake called “Best I Ever Had.”
Where’s American Idol’s William Hung when we need him?
The Democrat machine in Illinois is doing everything it can to deliver solid votes and discourage Republican votes.
The Democrat machine in Illinois is doing everything it can to deliver solid votes and discourage Republican votes.
Hence, this horrible story from BigGovernment.com:
Over 35 counties in Illinois missed the deadline to mail military ballots to our soldiers defending America. But in Chicago, county election officials have taken special steps to ensure that no inmates at the Cook County Jail are unable to cast a ballot.
The Chicago Board of Elections hand delivers ballots to the jail. They don’t even wait for the inmates to apply – they bring the applications with the ballots! Over 2,600 inmates have cast ballots so far – strikingly similiar to the 2,600 soldiers who will likely not recieve a ballot for the Nov 2 election.
Longtime Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank has given his re-election campaign $200,000 as he faces his toughest race in years.
Barney Frank owns his Massachusetts district. That is, he’s never really faced a serious challenge, running up huge victory after huge victory, sometimes even running unopposed.
Until this year.
Barney Frank hopes this $200,000 loan will help him land a knockout slap
Politico.com has the surprising story of Frank’s funding problem:
Longtime Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank has given his re-election campaign $200,000 as he faces his toughest race in years.
A campaign finance report filed Tuesday showed that Frank, the chairman of the powerful House Financial Services committee, lent himself the money Tuesday.
Frank, a 15-term lawmaker from Newton, Mass., raised $316,644 last quarter and reported more than $1 million on hand with no debts.
His campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The chairman is facing one of his toughest fights in recent memory against Republican Sean Bielat, a 35-year-old Marine veteran with degrees from Georgetown, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
Republican Sen. Scott Brown won Frank’s congressional district, which President Barack Obama carried in 2008. Bielat has zeroed in on Frank’s service atop the financial services committee, indicating that the Democrat had a hand in the financial turmoil over the last few years.
He had a hand it in? That’s a delicate way of putting it. If they mean Frank was fisting the economy, well, yes, he had a hand in it.
An indelicate way of putting it, perhaps, but true, nonetheless.
Hence, this horrible story from BigGovernment.com:
