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Subscribe to RSS‘Dirty Liar’ Harry… “The Mitt Romney camp raged Sunday over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's incendiary — and unsubstantiated — accusation that the presumed Republican presidential nominee may not have paid taxes for the past decade,” USA Today writes. “Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus went so far as to call Reid a "dirty liar" in an interview on ABC's This Week….”
Politico’s Mahtesian: “[T]he actual term ‘liar’ crosses a line that’s seldom breached, signaling a widespread GOP belief that, even by the diminished standards of contemporary political debate, Reid has violated a code. … the GOP has indicated it plans to make it personal. Between the loaded language and Priebus’s pointed reference to Reid’s Ritz-Carlton abode – an issue that surfaced in the senator’s 2010 re-election campaign – Republicans just sent the clearest signal to Reid yet that he needs to either produce the evidence, stand down or prepare for an extended public discussion of his own finances.”
Yet part of Reid’s calculation has to be that he’s happy to take the slings and arrows for his party, considering the consequences for Democrats if President Obama is defeated and Republicans take over the Senate. Reid’s not up for reelection until 2016 and that he’s 71 years old.
“President Obama's campaign has sued the state of Ohio over new rules for early voting designed to benefit members of the military, saying the extra hours should be available to all voters,” USA Today writes. “That lawsuit prompted claims by Mitt Romney and aides that the Obama campaign is targeting military voters -- a false claim, Obama's team quickly responded.”
More: “Obama political adviser David Axelrod, appearing on Fox News Sunday, said Romney's claims are ‘false and misleading,’ and that the lawsuit is about ‘whether the rest of Ohio should have the same right’ to early voting as members of the military.”
“The debut of a public database charting political ad buys has revealed … not much,” USA Today writes. “Broadcast TV stations in the top 50 markets are now required to post information about their political ad sales on a Federal Communications Commission website. The online database, which went live Thursday, is intended to provide easier public access to stations' political files, which until now could only be viewed by going to the TV stations. But under the FCC rule, which was opposed by the National Association of Broadcasters, stations don't have to post information about ad sales prior to Thursday. So anyone looking for information about the hundreds of millions of dollars that candidates and outside expenditure groups have already spent on advertising this election season will find nothing.”
Still, this is a step in the right direction.
Obama’s campaign continues to focus on women with a new ad running in swing states on contraception. It includes this line: “This is not the 1950s. Contraception is so important to women.”
Meanwhile, Romney’s up with a new ad up about how Obama hasn’t gone to Israel, as well as one about how the economy’s not getting better.
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So funny. The Republicans having a tantrum and accusing their betters of lying. Anyone remember what was done to Senator Kerry? No one lies as well as the Republicans do.
But, Mitty can fix this by releasing his taxes....TODAY!
Otherwise, Mittens, quit whining about it.
Amazing--TPGOP can dish it out, but sure can't take it!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Calling Reid names is not going to get rid of this problem for Romney. He needs to start being honest about a lot of things if he wants Americans' votes (or at least respect). I guess he thinks the presidency should just be served to him on a silver platter. Heaven forbid he should have to earn our trust by showing us what he's been doing the last 10-15 years.
Only the far left loones want to see his tax returns. Funny thing is you would not understand them anyway but that's another side of it.
The American People do not care about his tax returns. They care about the national debt. Jobs and defense which your guy has tried to ruin since day one.
Keep looking over there and watch the election fade before you.
Twits and dimwits. The Democrat party is full of them.
i do and the biggest mistake kerry made was appologizing for calling bush, channey and the pubs all crooks.
The longer this goes on the deeper the hole for Romney... I think of all the lies said about President Obama and not one republican spoke-up or said anything about that...
Romney is hiding something and it's BIG... Swiss bank accounts, money in the Cayman Islands, maybe investing in illegal investments... I don't know... But it is apparent, that he's afraid to let the truth out...
Time for Donald Trump and his buddies to show how they legally DON"T pay taxes...
Oh, ever notice how the republicans resort to name calling?
I just heard from a credible source that Reid has a child rape dungeon in his basement.
Now it's up to Reid to show proof that he isn't into raping little kids, but until he shows proof I guess the country should just look at him as a child rapist.
That's all they do since it resonates with their low-information base.....bumper sticker phrases that the base can remember.
Policies, no........Name calling/lies, yes!
Are you seriously this delusional? Take a look at these Newsvine comments. This is how the left spent their saturday.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/04/13122443-jindal-on-veepstakes-paul-ryan-brings-a-lot-to-the-table#comments
I see nothing but drunken crazy talk from most people on the left trying to destroy anyone who doesn't agree with them.
rukidding47
Santorum wanted to see them and so did Gingrich.
This tax return thing has been following Romney for about 20 years now so it's not a fluke. But you keep excusing Romney because you have no other choice.
fallacy of false analogy. you're comparing liberal posters on a message board to actual politicians. See the difference?
The decline of our country started when it became a faux pas to call a lie a lie, and a liar a liar through the media. Now we have to sit through politicians telling bald-faced lies during interviews and even when the interviewer knows they are lying they don't push them on it.
We've all seen interviews with 0bama. We know the guy could lie in his sleep.
Really, elliot?
Where have you been for the last 3+ years since President Obama was sworn into office?
I won't even call the TeaPublicans "drunken". I'll just say they are low-informed (rather believe the lies).
I came to the low-informed conclusion during the protests about HCR when the folks protesting were obviously senior citizens (on social security, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, etc) carrying signs saying "government hands off my health care"!.....
Signs calling the President a socialist, marxist, etc!
Reid is a lying scum bag. Give em hell, Mitt!! Your taxes are none of their business.
He is a socialist and a Marxist. Thats just the truth.
rukidding47...
You talk about the debt...
Romney not paying taxes until he's caught is a cause of the debt. Hiding money in offshore accounts to avoid taxes means he is a dead beat.
Records show, Romney repeatedly took money from pensions, then put the company in foreclosure. The result was taxpayers spending billions bailing out the pensions Romney put into his offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes.
Romney's ego is so large that he bragged about using lobbyists to receive more taxpayer money for the Salt Lake Olympics than all the previous US Olympics combined. After the Olympics, Romney used some of the remaining taxpayer money to give replicas of the Olympic torches to Congressional Republicans who gave him the taxpayer money.
Since the debt is an issue, then Romney's love of taxpayer money and only paying taxes when regulators catch him is an issue.
Or Romney can sue Reid for LIBEL...of course, he can't PROVE it unless he shows us his tax returns. I love all the Romney surrogates coming on and calling Reid a liar while lying about what the President and Reid SAID...in the same TALKING POINT. Is Reid saying this 'on the Senate floor' as egregious as the Birthers on the House floor? How about hangin' off the balcony of the House and exhorting the birthers on the ground? No? Payback's a bitch.
Whose truth elliot? ...I dare say, those are talking points from the low-informed.
But, as Willard says, 'put up or shut up' as he continues to evade the issue. Just release the taxes Willard.........
Willard is catching hell from Harry!............
chilled, Thats not how it works in the land of libbies. You see I, Like Reid, can make an accusation and its not up to me to prove its validity, thats 0bama's job.
Gheeze.....whatever are you trying to say?....nevermind!
Oh yes we do want to see the tax returns. Willard is applying to be the most powerful person in the World, and we the people demand this before he gets hired.
Why would you people vote against your own interest?
At first I agreed with Jon Stuart that Reid was being a terrible person accusing Romney of paying no taxes and then saying his dead dad would be ashamed of him for doing so. That is a pretty low blow. I was taken aback by how crazy and baseless those accusations were. Usually it is the other party making false accusations and dealing low blows, so seeing a Dem take the low road rubbed me the wrong way.
But now I understand what he was doing. He was baiting Romney to call him out and Romney did just that.
“It’s time for Harry to put up or shut up.” More Romney: "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 that it's the White House." But Romney’s put-up-or-shut-up reply gave Reid precisely the opening he was looking for. “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,” Reid said in a statement last night.
Romney can strike a devastating blow to the Democratic Party right now by releasing his tax returns and shoving them in Reid’s/Obama campaigns face. Only he can’t do that because his tax records are so politically damaging, there is no way he wins if he releases them. Even if they prove he is not a felony level tax evader, another accusation made by the Obama campaign, they show how little Romney cares to invest in the US economy. It is time for Mitt to either "put up or shut up" and my money is on him shutting up.
My interest is the best for America. I could care less about his tax returns. I know Obama and the destruction he has done and I know it is someone elses turn.
Why do you people vote for a failed leader when you know he will do worse his next term.
Romney could potentially stifle Reid by releasing the tax returns that he steadfastly refuses to release. He won't do this; he wants to have his cake and eat it, too. Which, other than his wife's illness, is pretty much the story of his life. Mitt Romney - the Eddie Haskell of politics!
Ok, Mitt - now is the time, you need to put up or shut up. If you are not guilty - prove it, if you are guilty then just tuck your tail between your legs, apoligize and move on along. The longer Mitt delays his tax returns hitting the presses the longer this thing will drag out and his handlers must be waiting to catch a ride back from Mars if they think it could go in his favor by being drug out. I think we are going to find that if Mitt did indeed pay his taxes, then he was probably governor of Mass illegally (many in Mass think this by the way - and yes I have spoken to quite a few of them in the last several weeks). then ole Mitt will have lots of splaining to do (Lucy and Dezi).
what I truly love is Romney is in a box. He can release his tax returns and show the American public that he took advantage of the tax code. The righties will feel vindicated and the left will howl. But what is REALLY good is Romney came out and protested that he DID pay 'taxes'...not FEDERAL taxes, just taxes. So what happens to the rights smear that 49% of the country 'does not pay taxes' when he meant FEDERAL taxes and gave no credit to the state/local taxes that ALL people pay and poor people pay disportionately. Now he's gonna use THAT and watch the 'bots scramble.
Prebius ole boy - me thinks you doeth protest too much!
Prebius equating women to caterpillars and now calling Reid a dirty liar.....
.....the GOP/TP is good at expressing faux outrage at everything and everybody.....
Doesn't Work!
"Dirty liar" Harry Reid personifies the modern Democratic Party.
Totally amoral, and willing to do or say anything to keep their power.
How low will they go?
And will they find you there when they get there?
They'll find that Prebus & the Romney bunch beat them to it.
So, remind us what your reaction was to the Michelle Bachmann LIE regarding the aide to Hillary Clinton being a "supposed" spy for Muslim Brotherhood? I'll tell you what we heard from Bob in VA and the rest of the GOP with regards to "providing proof or substantiation of the connection", SILENCE. Yep, that's exactly what we heard didn't we.
Now that the Democrats have pushed back using the same type of "weakly founded" argument the GOP replies by calling Harry Reid names while their "presumptive nominee" uses the ole false bravado "Put up or shut up" line. The GOP's reaction to the Harry Reid claim about Mr. Romney is equivalent to what you see and hear from grade school children on the recess playground.
And quite frankly if the GOP is unwilling to chastise Rep. Bachmann and her friends then they should expect this type of retaliatory action from the DEM's.
I believe the saying goes, "Don't dish it out if you can't take it."
vagina bob Rmoney real easily could prove Reid a lier. If Rmoney shows his taxes and it shows he paid, Reid is a lier. Simple right? Rmoney by not showing his taxes to disprove Reid's claims looks like he is hiding something or he's a lier. Your fake outrage just cracks me up! If this were The President your would you righties would want to put him in prison.
only the Democratic party is this applicable to? doesn't fit the republicans at all, right? /sarcasm.
This is what we (collectively) have allowed our politics to come to because everyone is more concerned with American Idol and the DJIA, and we can only pay attention long enough for bumpersticker slogans to register instead of understanding what in our policy is really causing the problems we are facing, and then addressing those problems with an open mind. Easier to point fingers than create solutions, and politicians are experts at dodging responsibility.
Ideological purity leads to stagnation, stagnation leads to death.
It IS kinda sad that they are sinking to the level of the GOP for the last 30 years. I KNOW you remember DeLay...Gingrich...etal.
Oh save it Bob, elected Republicans have made every unfounded accusation under the sun about the duly elected president of the US, where was the outrage against Bachmann, Trump, the birthers, ect. I did not here one call from republicans to rein in their unfounded accusations. Where was the republican outrage when the highest elected republicans said their one and only top priority was to make sure Obama was a one term president, nothing about doing their work of in the bests interests of our nation they swore an oath to do. Remember when the same guys who said that about Obama said it was unpatriotic to say anything bad about Bush because he was a war time president and that doing so emboldened our enemies and put American lives in danger. What happened with that line of thinking with republicans, where did that thought go right after Obama was elected by an electoral landslide? The Republican outrage over unfounded accusations is as phony as it gets, they have made unfounded accusations and personal smears of the POTUS in front of the whole world a standard operating procedure, and I have never seen one elected republican call them out on it. They have all encouraged it either by their active participation or by their silence. So please republicans spare me the tough guy talk now when not one of those pussies could stand up to their own for the last 3 and a half years. In the end the more republicans talk about Reid's comments the worse it gets for Romney, because in the end he still prefers to "take the fifth" with regards to his tax returns and business dealings. People keep wondering if this just a despicable accusation by Reid why don't Romney just release the info, make it public, and make a fool out of Reid. Why won't he do that Bob? Why is it that the so called powerhouse of a businessman can't or won't tell you about his personal business? Why is it that the man who claims to know how to restructure your taxes, will not divulge his own? Why is it that the man who knows how to invest in America, will not divulge his own investments? The more republicans keep this in the spotlight the more the general electorate wonders about those questions. People may feel that the questions were brought up in an inappropriate manner, nevertheless they want them answered, and as long as Romney "takes the fifth" on his own personal financial matters, the general electorate will never allow him to take charge of the nations finances. You know how people feel about people that "take the fifth" they are basically admitting guilt, it just gives them a way of not having to give the details of their guilt. This is a political loser for Romney, and even republicans at the primary debates loudly booed him when he said he would not release his tax returns. Republicans have played this game this game since Obama was elected, now that it is directed at them they walk around with the boo boo lip like a child with a skinned knee.
As Romney says, "What's sauce foe the goose is sauce for the gander." LOL
WOW, That sounds more like Willard Romney personifies the modern Republican Party. You see if I had nothing to hide, I would release my taxes and watch myself shoot up 10 points in the polls.
However, Willard has something to hide.
Bob, I told you a few days ago that Romney's "taking the fifth" would drop him with the electorate, that he was committing political suicide, now even the most recent Rasmussen poll has Obama leading Romney. The closer the electorate looks at Romney the less they like what they see, and evidently they like even less what he will not allow them to see. The way Romney is dropping in the polls, he better pick a VP soon or he will be down to Sarah Palin, because nobody with a real future in republican politics will want to get on board that sinking ship.
The sad thing about all of this is, it really has shown the shear stupidity Mitt Romney's stance on not showing anyone his tax returns.
Unlike artificial claims of Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi doing or being something they are not, the level of taxes paid by the Romneys on the tax returns is something that is very easily verified.
I truly don't understand why they don't just release copies of the returns and put this to rest. By not doing so, they just give their political opponents an opening to attack them. Politics abhors a vacuum. If Mitt Romney is not willing to provide information, his opponents will provide it for him.
As to the various GOP talking heads deciding to call Harry Reid a liar, only one person has the ability to prove that, and Mitt Romney has decided to not prove it. Does that mean that Harry Reid is not lying ?
Well one logical reason is that Romney refuses to release his info even though it is politically damaging to him is that he believes it will be even more damaging if he does. Romney changes his positions daily according to the prevailing political wind at each campaign stop, if he releases his info, it will be documented, it will be what it is for all to see, and then he can never again claim it was anything other than what it is. Pretty soon it won't matter if he does or not, the electorate is deciding they don't trust this guy, and once they decide that, they will not forgive him. They did not trust him to begin with because of his ever changing story, he is just sealing his fate now in that regard. His negative adds against Obama will have less impact because they will be seen as coming from someone who is not straightforward and truthful. If you can't or won't tell me the truth about yourself why should I believe you would tell me the truth about your opponent, is how that works politically.
Phoney indignancy - its not like the Romney campaign has been very truthful.
Is Harry a dirty liar? Somebody may have told Harry that Mitt didn't pay any taxes. Doesn't mean he did and doesn't mean he didn't...just means somebody told Harry that Mitt didn't pay.
And really.... like it hasn't occurred to many fair minded people that something must be behind Mitt's refusal to make his tax information public. If Mitt and the Republicans could disgrace Harry and the Democrats they would have already done it unless the risk is greater than the reward.
And Dana Bash (CNN) has confirmed that someone did indeed tell Reid that 'Romney has not paid taxes in 10 years'...not that the source is correct, just that they did tell Reid that.
It amazes me that GOP have the nerve to call Senator Reid a "dirty liar". they on the other hand can call President Obama a Muslim; traitor; communist; terrorist; unamerican; not one of us; Obummur; etc etc and not one of them speak out against any of it. So now the tables are turned and the Democrats are standing tall and punching back and the GOP calls foul...really lol! Romney can put it all to rest by just doing what he should have done months ago and release his taxes. He owes it to the American people to do just that. We deserve to know who he is. If he wants the American vote then he needs to come clean and show us that he isn't hiding anything and stop thinking that we're stupid that he can just say it isn't so and move on. Sorry Mitt doesn't work that way.
I find it interesting that John McCain who supposedly has seen Romney's tax returns is strangely quiet about this.
John McCain would not rat out a fellow republican. Their in the same club.
Obama Biden 2012
Reid is a punch drunk ex-boxer with no brain cells left. He couldn't tell a truth or lie coherently.
And yet, he's beaten John Ensign and Sharron Angle.
And Willard Mitt Romney is left to grade school taunts " Put up or shut up."
Good thing the GOP has not yet had their convention, they still have time to find a real candidate.
Over a week has passed by on this, and now the entire Republik Party is whining about Sen. Reid, instead of sticking to their campaign message (whatever it is). Hahahahahahhaha! Sen. Reid wins - Gov. Romney (and Prince Reebus) lose......again!
reid is an ass no matter what i say again mitt show some returns only if obama releases a true and leagal birth certificate and unlocks his college records this clown of a president hs spent a lot of money to hide things why???
uh huh...Obama HAS shown his birth certificate. You don't believe it. You are a moron. Hawaii is a STATE and they confirmed it. You will ALWAYS have an excuse. Obama showing his grades? What are you...two years old? Romney was a bully in school and beat up another kid...off limits?
no im 4 years old and probably a lot wiser than you think calling me a moron does not solve a thing this birther thing was around long before the mitt and taxes thing i think there are several articles around showing that this so called birth certificate was doctored
Shame on Sen. Reid. Political lying is nothing new, but starting with the swift-boating in 2004 the the Republicans and the tea party have had no compunction about making up all manner of absurdities against anybody who gets in their way. With them, lying became an art form.
I don't claim that Democrats have been pure, but they haven't been THAT bad. Senator Reid's idiotic statement puts Democrats on a slippery slope headed for the same cesspool.
It is noted, however, that Mr. Romney can bring the present controversy to a halt by releasing a few more tax returns, and then we can change the subject.
It's Mr. Romney's fault that his tax-returns have become topic A in this campaign!!! If he wants it to get back focused on the economy again he should release his tax returns and be done with it!!! Otherwise Harry Reid words will start becoming fact real soon because as a common sense inference if there was nothing wrong with Mr. Romney's tax returns that wouldn't hurt him he would put them out there already. He's a smart man, and so are the people around him and the people with whom he's worked with so again in my mind as a natural inference it must be something really bad that the Obama campaign can slam him on in them. But that's my opinion, and I for one don't really care about how much money he has made and how's he made it in less there's something criminal about it.
Show us the tax forms mittie. It will solve all the problems, right? Yep, you would probably wind up in prison, but it will silence us all. When you stand in front of Americans, and say things like, i have shown you all you are going to see, deal with it, we know you are afraid of something. So, PLEASE DON'T INSULT OUR INTELLIGENCE!!! You will never convince me, (unless i see those returns) that you are worthy of the office of President! Lying, two-faced, jackass!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 TO SAVE OUR LIVES!!!
Harry Reid is an absolutely horrific person. This latest example of his lying on the senate floor is just the tip of his iceberg. He routinely REFUSES to bring legislation up for vote in the senate because he doesn't want his members to have to go on record for anything out of pure, political interests. That is a huge reason why no budget has been passed since Obama was elected. There is abudget passed by the house that Reid refuses to bring to a vote. Yet, he blames the republicans and the leftist sheeple believe him.
Hey Harry - I heard you like to beat your wife. The word is out - everyone knows it. Someone who I won't name knows it because he heard it from a friend of a friend.
Now, prove I'm wrong
God that is getting old. Would you on the fringe right try to come up with an analogy that is not so third grade? Thanks.
Do you really want the Republican "Kill off Medicare" budget passed ?
The GOP passed that budget knowing full well that it would die in the Senate. They fully intended to keep the "no budget has passed" talking point going for as long as possible.
That the Republican party has not passed any jobs bills is the real problem.
Mom in NJ
Of course Repos in congress would never stoop that low (dripping in sarcasm).