If Mitt the twit really wanted to prove that Reid was lying he'd release his tax returns and rub it in his face...but we know that that will never happen. He's decided to take the heat for not releasing his tax returns rather than confirm what most Americans already think about him.
What's worse than people wondering if he's an out of touch, outsource profiting, tax sheltering tycoon with something to hide? Releasing his tax returns and people KNOWING that he's an out of touch outsourcing profiting, tax sheltering tycoon.
This issue isn't going away any time soon and them calling Reid a dirty liar is only giving the Obama campaign more media attention to talk about it, they're playing right into the Obama campaign's hands...LOL! I liked where on ABC This Week Reince Priebus said he wasn't going to address it yet called Reid a dirty liar? WTF? Then George Stephenopolus said that by calling him a dirty liar he actually did address it....priceless.
Republicans Watch Their "Harry Reid is a Liar" Strategy Crash and Burn
ProudProgressive
2012/08/06 13:16:50
Republicans Watch Their Harry Reid is a Liar Strategy Crash and Burn
By: Jason Easley
August 5th, 2012
Republicans are learning the hard way that calling Harry Reid a liar is a strategy that is blowing up in their faces.
Our adventure begins with Sen. Lindsey Graham repeating the GOP talking point that Harry Reid is a liar.
Transcript from CNN:
CROWLEY: I need a two-word answer from you, and that is what vice presidential pick would best help Mitt Romney?
GRAHAM: You know, I think Pawlenty and Portman are in the hunt. One last thing. You didn’t ask me about Harry Reid. I’ve been around this town for a while. I actually like Harry. But what he did on the floor of the Senate is so out of bounds. I think he’s lying about his statement of knowing something about Romney. So this is what’s wrong with America–
CROWLEY: That’s pretty stiff. You think–
(CROSSTALK)
CROWLEY: — the leader of the Senate is lying?
GRAHAM: Yes, I do. I really do. I think he has created an issue here. I think he’s making things up
Sen. Graham and the rest of the Republican Party didn’t know it, but their strategy was about to backfire. After Graham’s segment, the Obama campaign’s Robert Gibbs hit CNN and made the Republicans pay.
Transcript from CNN:
CROWLEY: Let us start out with Harry Reid. You heard Senator Lindsey Graham saying he thinks Reid is lying, that he is making this up, when he gets on the Senate floor and Senator Reid says, I’ve been told that Mitt Romney has not paid taxes for 10 years.
I spoke to a Democrat yesterday who said — who’s in touch with the Obama re-elect in Chicago, who said, if Chicago wanted Reid to stop, he would stop, but Chicago doesn’t want him to. Are you just as happy to have him out here saying these things?
GIBBS: Look, I think it’s important that we know the financial backgrounds of candidates. You saw Lindsey Graham, I think appropriately, talk about the role that tax loopholes play in our tax code and how much it costs average taxpayers. We’re going to have a pretty big debate about tax reform in the next coming months. And we have to know what’s in people’s tax returns and what they are getting the benefit for.
. . . . .
CROWLEY: But you know where I’m going with this, because you all want to couch it as he’s hiding something really terrible; he probably cheated on his taxes; he didn’t pay taxes; you pay too many taxes. But you have the leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate saying that Mitt Romney didn’t pay any taxes, while you have Mitt Romney saying, “Yes, I did.”
GIBBS: It’s a time-honored tradition that presidential candidates release their tax returns, right? And the standard was set by Mitt Romney’s own father, who said don’t put out one or two years because those could end up being an anomaly, and he put out, I think, somewhere around 12 years. Barack Obama has put out something…
Lindsey Graham spent 60 seconds calling Harry Reid a liar. Robert Gibbs spent 4:20 answering Candy Crowley’s questions about Harry Reid by talking about Mitt Romney’s foreign bank accounts and his tax returns.
Every time that Republicans call Harry Reid a liar, they are keeping Mitt Romney’s refusal to release his tax returns in the news. The size of the transcripts for Graham and Gibbs tell the story.
Republicans are actually making things worse for Mitt Romney by calling Harry Reid a liar. When Republicans talk about Harry Reid, they are also talking about Romney’s tax returns, and Mitt Romney has put his party in a no win position.
There are a dozen different ways that Republicans could address Reid’s accusations, and they have chosen the worst option. The liar, liar pants on fire strategy is only effective if it can be proven that Reid is lying. Since Romney won’t provide the proof, Republicans have given the Democrats the gift of an endless loop of conversation about Romney’s tax returns.
After Lindsey Graham’s attack backfired so badly, you would think maybe the Republican Party would learn that calling Harry Reid a liar is a really, really bad idea.
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Q 2012/08/06 16:40:04
Basically it's distracting BullS***! Why? Because Mitt Romney has complied with all he is legally required to show! Funny how those voting for the President defended his right to not have to go beyond that when he was being vetted!
Better to talk about the Democrats and Administrations bugling of the Keystone Pipeline and why after being patient Ottawa is now dealing with the Chinese!
Oh hey and how are those Jobs #s looking?
So in fact Romney has done all that is required of him to be eligible! Just as Barack Obama did!
You don't know everything about the current holder of the office! Many things are sealed.
Look there is a box on every form that allows anyone to pay more if they so choose!
Now let's get say John & Teresa Heinz Kerry out and see if they are checking the box?
What Joe Biden does not legally get an take a boatload of them?
The point is did Mittens pay any tax in the last ten years? I'm sorry, but I bet he didn't. Now the real issue is why is an average Joe like you (I assume) supporting this kind of behavior by anyone? I paid more than Mittens did in taxes last year and maybe Joe Biden too, but why is that not outrageous to you?
Start thinking bigger - politics isn't like sports -- there are no favorite teams that you side with. It's about right & wrongs - not scores. Geez!
You need to question why deductions are put in place to be legally taken to begin with. Let's assume Mitt pays somebody to do his taxes. You are saying he's not paying the person to take all legal deductions?
That's the score. Also there is a box all these philanthropic millionaires can check to send in more money if they so choose. That said whom from either team in Washington is doing so?
Maybe then this country would have people in the streets like in Europe.
Your government is screwing you as well! And use class warfare and promises they cannot afford to keep to get re-elected? Lol!
Class warfare? Before Reagan the wealthy paid 60-90% at different times. Weren't the years after WWII a lot better for raising a family? The wealthy and their greed have caused the class warfare. The issue is we have a corporatist media that most people listen to as the word of god. They have convinced the average US citizen to protect the wealthy. Why?
Let's breakdown that I already know this lame argument!
And once again --- start thinking bigger! Oil is a dead technology - the rest of the world understands that, except the USA and China. Look up Solar Roadways.
Solar Roads don't fuel Aircraft!
Ohh wait! Do you work for an oil company? If not, then I still believe you are watching FOX or listening to some corporate sponsored media. Keystone is a bad deal.
I never said I "Hate it"! I said the opposite! What I said is it's NOT in place AS we speak!
I am very much for these things but they are not here yet! Comprehend what I am saying! It's very simply NOT in place and as it is not you can't just say STOP what is already in place such as Oil and it's use as we speak for providing power to multitudes of things we need and use!
"Oh Gee.....STOP what we are doing IMMEDIATELY with no INPLACE working solution" is Mindless!
It IS about "low cost"! Lol.....do you understand how modern economies work?
Please name me a modern industrialized country that as we speak do without oil? You can't!
Romney's the liar here, not Reid.
Why would someone be so embarrassed about their time at Harvard, Columbia, and Occidental? How does someone scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins afford these colleges? Were they special foreign student loans, paid for by foreign nationals? William 'kaboom' Ayers' parents? (oh, that's right, they didn't know each other)
Why would one be embarrassed about what they wrote in their thesis? Wouldn't that be something to be proud of and be considered a plus? Wouldn't many people remember seeing that person on the campus at Columbia? Well according to professors in the law dept.,.... no. He didn't take their classes and 400 others who were interviewed don't remember seeing him there at all. Doesn't that seem a bit strange?
E-Verify,.... a data base used by employers and available to law enforcement that makes it easy to verify ones Social Security Number and items like Selective Service registrations.
However, when the information 0bozo claims to be valid is run through the system,.... nothing can be verified at all. In fact, the SSN used for 25 years indicates it belongs to a Connecticut man who died in ,.... wait for it,........
Why would someone be so embarrassed about their time at Harvard, Columbia, and Occidental? How does someone scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins afford these colleges? Were they special foreign student loans, paid for by foreign nationals? William 'kaboom' Ayers' parents? (oh, that's right, they didn't know each other)
Why would one be embarrassed about what they wrote in their thesis? Wouldn't that be something to be proud of and be considered a plus? Wouldn't many people remember seeing that person on the campus at Columbia? Well according to professors in the law dept.,.... no. He didn't take their classes and 400 others who were interviewed don't remember seeing him there at all. Doesn't that seem a bit strange?
E-Verify,.... a data base used by employers and available to law enforcement that makes it easy to verify ones Social Security Number and items like Selective Service registrations.
However, when the information 0bozo claims to be valid is run through the system,.... nothing can be verified at all. In fact, the SSN used for 25 years indicates it belongs to a Connecticut man who died in ,.... wait for it,..... Honolulu, HI. of all places. Same thing happens when information from his one-of-a-kind Selective Service reg. is run through the system,.... it cannot be verified. Wouldn't that raise some eyebrows and be rather simple to provide the paper copies?
Problem is, both of those items are legal Federal documents and tampering with, or providing fraudulent documents are serious crimes,... felonies in fact. Either case would render one ineligible to hold any public office, much less be eligible to have their name on a presidential ballot in all 57 states.
And we still have that little problem with the online posting of an image purported to be a true scanned copy from the Dept. of Health in Hawaii. It's true that a letter was sent, requesting the document, and it's true Hawaii claims they complied. But why wont anyone from the Dept. go on record and attest that what they have in their vault, is an exact match for what appeared online?
If Mitt Romney had failed to file his tax returns, filed fraudulent returns, or had such terrible losses that he claimed no tax liability at all for 10 years straight,..... wouldn't that send a BIG RED FLAG to the IRS, prompting massive audits accompanied by front page headlines? So Harry Reid and his anonymous phoned in source are privy to information that the IRS doesn't have? Well,.... that's the "word" that's going around anyway.
They put out a statement that says 'information' is correct, which could mean as little as the spelling of Ann Dunham's name.
What's the big problem with handing over the supposed valid paper document and let a few people take a closer look? Wouldn't that put all doubts to rest in short fashion?
What is he trying to hide by posting it online, claiming it to be valid? U.S. Customs wouldn't accept a passport like that, any court in the USA wouldn't accept an online image in lieu of the real McCoy.
Besides, that's just one measly item on the long list of documents that are unavailable, missing, sealed, altered,.... etc etc etc.
All he has done was to put computer generated images online.
NOBODY has actually seen or held the supposed document.
It would take 5 minutes to call the FBI and have them come get it,.... what is he hiding?
Classic denial and double standards being applied to the fullest.