Ed Morrissey @ Hot Air
After Mitt Romney told Harry Reid to “put up or shut up” about allegations of income-tax evasion, Reid chose this morning to … do neither. Instead, Reid released a statement late yesterday essentially tripling down on his evidence-free accusations, and again insisted that Romney had to prove himself innocent:
As I said before, I was told by an extremely credible source that Romney has not paid taxes for ten years. People who make as much money as Mitt Romney have many tricks at their disposal to avoid paying taxes. We already know that Romney has exploited many of these loopholes, stashing his money in secret, overseas accounts in places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.
Last weekend, Governor Romney promised that he would check his tax returns and let the American people know whether he ever paid a rate lower than 13.9 percent. One day later, his campaign raced to say he had no intention of putting out any further information.
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.
Note, please, that we seem to be back to one source for this information — “an extremely credible source,” but Reid did not use a plural. Earlier in the week, Reid claimed to have “a number of sources,” and that “the word is out.” So which is it? One extremely credible source from Bain who somehow got to look at Romney’spersonal taxes for a ten-year period even though no one would have access to that except the Romneys, their accountant, and the IRS? Or a number of sources who say “the word is out”? Reid’s sounding more and more like Joe McCarthy every day.
I would sue Harry Reid in civil court for slander and ram one down his throat.
By the way, I have an account at BNP Paribas Suisse because I can access buying A-rated EMTN’s that I could not access thru US banks. Hell, Julius Baer was returning over 12% last year to account holders. Does JP Morgan Chase or Bank of America do that?
Reid had, at one point, said the guy works at (or runs) Bain.
Didn’t Romney leave Bain way back when he agreed to organize the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics?
How recently has anyone at Bain had access to Romney’s private papers?
EVER?
And hasn’t Bain been stuffed full of strong Obama supporters in the last ten years?
Reid is lying, or believing someone who is lying.
When Bachman did that about a child’s retardation because of a vaccination she was SHREDDED!
The media took the lead in doing its job and Michele’s claim that she was simply repeating what she’d been told was no excuse!
Where’s the media on Reid?
I’M SURE THAT MITT ROMNEY WILL RELEASE IT’S TAX TO THE PEOPLE IN HIS OWN TIME,
NOT IN HARRY REID’S TIME, BECAUSE HE KNOW REID’S INTENT TO USE ANYTHING
AGAINST HIM. FOR JUST SAVING TIME ON THEIR OWN INABILITY TO ANSWERS TO THE PEOPLE’S QUESTIONS,
HE AND DEMOCRATS ARE JUST USING THAT TO COVER OBAMA FAILING TO SHOW WHY HE DESERVE TO BE RE-ELECTED, THEY ARE TRYING TO SAVE THEIR NECK TOO, FOR NOT HAVING THE GUTS TO
EXPOSE THE WRONG DOING GOING ON IN THEIR DEMOCRATS PARTY, SINCE 2008 ELECTION,
The humor coming out from this ”when did you stop beating your wife,” affair is beyond the funniest stuff I had seen before.
Like:
And
And:
Another:
This one made me laugh out loud:
Finally:
But Reid has a source. His source has been provided by Timothy Geitner, at the direction of Pres Obama, within the IRS. The IRS has photoshopped some fake tax returns from Romney and Reid will soon release them. They will prove that Romney made $10 million a year, paid no taxes, and put all the money in tax shelters overseas.
This is standard operating procedure for Obama, who wins elections by destroying his opposition.
Somehow sealed court records open up, secrets come out, lives are destroyed, and reputations ruined.
Name for me an election which Obama won without destroying his opponent. Even Hilary fell before the great Opposition Machine, funded in secret by the secret handlers of the Manchurian Candidate.
This is who Obama is. This is what he does. Ruin, lie, trash, tarnish, destroy. Meanwhile there is no one who can get any information about Obama at all; millions have been spent securing his entire past behind an impenetrable wall of silence. Birth certificate, SSN, high school, college, grad school, Illinois Senate, Chicago Law School, U S Senate: all sealed.
Most transparent administration in history.
And Obama has the goods on Reid big-time. So Reid had better play the front man, or he is going down.
If Reid spent half as much time doing his job, perhaps the Senate could finally produce a budget.
One of the bloggers at the Gay Patriot links to a Hot Air article this way:
If, deadpans Ed Morrissey, “a Democratic Party leader accuses you of a crime with no evidence whatsoever, you are expected to be considered guilty unless you prove yourself innocent.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/02/reid-romney-is-guilty-of-my-evidence-free-accusations-until-he-proves-himself-innocent/
Wow!
We’ve come a long way, baby!
Reid actually says:
UPDATE:
CNN‘s Dan Primack is calling BS on Reid’s claim.
Of course you must know by now that Senator Harry Reid has become the object of rumors that he himself is a pederast.
Ace of Spades quotes:
Early today Senator Reid’s staff responding to inquiries curtly refused deny those rumors in an email today to Ace of Spades:
EXCLUSIVE—MUST CREDIT ACE OF SPADES HQ:
Harry Reid’s Office Responds To Rumors That He’s A Pederast
Mike O’Malley
and I heard that the mayor of CHICAGO. is a queer, it was told when he left OBAMA AND WENT FOR THE MAYOR JOB,
Reid has stuck his neck out so far with this claim that you’ve got to wonder why Romney
doesn’t simply release his returns and chop his head off once and for all.
No doubt a lot of people are beginning to wonder about that.
@Greg:
Perhaps because the people who are employ Alinskian tactic?
Say when is Obama go to release his college transcripts and the passport he used when he traveled illegally to Pakistan back in 1981?
@ilovebeeswarzone:
Whether the Mayor of Chicago is a homosexual or not doesn’t particularly concern me. Sadly he probably is the best man that the corrupt Chicago electorate can get for the job of mayor. Chicago is Chicago and Chicago is an embarrassment. It would be nice however if he would dispel those rumors … 😉
@Greg: Why should he release his returns? Are we now requiring Democrats to be inocent until proven guilty and Republicians guilty until proven innocent? Is that the lefty interpretation of US law? Seems so!
@ilovebeeswarzone:
According to informed sources in Chicago’s gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city, both Obama and Rahm are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, Man’s Country.
Obama began frequenting Man’s Country in the mid-1990s, during the time he transitioned from a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School to his election as an Illinois State Senator in 1996. Emanuel, reportedly joined Man’s Country after he left the Clinton White Hosue and moved back to Chicago in 1998, joining the investment firm of Wasserstein Perella and maintaining his membership during his 2002 campaign for the U.S. 5th District House seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich.
Members of Man’s Country are also issued club identification cards. Obama and Emanuel possessed the ID cards, which were required for entry.
Obama would regularly be seen at Man’s Country on Wednesdays.
The club’s website advertises steam rooms, “fantasy rooms,” bed rooms, male strippers, adult movies, and lockers.
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Oh, the stuff of the local gay rumor mill!
Any reporters out in Chicago willing to run down this kinky tale?
@Mike O’Malley, #11:
More likely it’s because they aren’t inclined to deny the obvious: Romney has concluded that it’s less damaging for voters to know he’s is hiding something than it would be for voters to know specifically what’s being hidden.
@Nan G:
I’d say about as many as are willing to investigate young Obama’s relationship with the man who might well be his biological father, CPUSA member and sexual predator, Frank Marshal Davis.
A Shrink Asks: What’s Wrong with Obama?
@Greg: Maybe it has something to do with principles, but you lefties would not know much about those things.