Friday, August 3, 2012

Harry Plotter And The Prisoner Of Rafalca, Part 2

The Romney camp is going bugnuts over Harry Reid's insistence that Romney used various tax shelters and dodges to pay zero federal taxes for ten years, to the point where the Romney campaign is now asking Harry Reid to release Mitt Romney's taxes.  Or something.

"Well, it's time for Harry to put up or shut up. Harry's going to have to describe who it is he spoke with because of course, that's totally and completely wrong," Romney told Hannity in a radio interview. "It's untrue, dishonest, and inaccurate. It's wrong. So I'm looking forward to have Harry reveal his sources and we'll probably find out it's the White House. Look, the Obama campaign is going to do everything in its power to try and talk about anything besides the president's record. Home prices, median American incomes, gasoline prices, 23 million underemployed or unemployed."

Harry Reid, who apparently has now just stopped giving a damn about how Romney feels, is punching back a third time on this.

When it comes to answering the legitimate questions the American people have about whether he avoided paying his fair share in taxes or why he opened a Swiss bank account, Romney has shut up. But as a presidential candidate, it’s his obligation to put up, and release several years’ worth of tax returns just like nominees of both parties have done for decades.

It’s clear Romney is hiding something, and the American people deserve to know what it is. Whatever Romney’s hiding probably speaks volumes about how he would approach issues that directly impact middle-class families, like tax reform and the economy. When you are running for president, you should be an open book.

I understand Romney is concerned that many people, Democrats and Republicans, have been calling on him to release his tax returns. He has so far refused. There is only one thing he can do to clear this up, and that’s release his tax returns.

Harry Reid is free, people.  Unencumbered.  And he's piledriving Mitt into the ground.  Once again as I said yesterday I didn't believe Reid at first, but the Romney team's screaming nutjob reaction to Reid absolutely has convinced me now that Reid is correct and is on to the truth here.

And Reid is right.  Mitt Romney can prove if Reid is a fool right now.

Why doesn't he?

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