Over the last hour or so we’ve seen The National Review and Rick Perry tell Mitt Romney to go ahead and release his tax returns. So by tomorrow morning Mitt needing to release more tax returns may be part of the 2012 GOP platform.
But if he does, how many? Read More
In a taped radio interview aired tonight Mitt Romney rejected calls from fellow Republicans that he release his full history of tax returns. “Oh, I think people in my party just say, ‘Look, this is a non-issue, just release the returns and it will all go away.’ My experience is that the Democratic Party these days has approached taxes in a very different way than in the past.” Read More
How many different things has Team Romney tried this week to change the conversation away from Bain and taxes? Count ’em.
If I’m understanding this right the Romney campaign has decided that the economy isn’t going to do it. So they’re shifting toward a campaign centered on cocaine, Tony Rezko, Reverend Wright, etc.
In other news, Romney team threatens to slip on a banana peel if Obama doesn’t back off on the tax return stuff.
TPM Reader DS: “Isn’t it time for Mark Halperin to say this tax returns stuff is bad news … for Obama?”
A new study by the Brennan Center says that some 10 million citizens in states with new voter ID laws face a ‘serious burden’ on their ability to vote in November.
David Taintor has a great piece on how Obama’s “you didn’t build it” line bubbled up on right-wing blogs, went through the Fox spin cycle, and became a major line of attack from Mitt Romney himself.
RNC finds one Republican who doesn’t think Romney should release his tax returns.
By happenstance, Sens Durbin and Levin are pushing a new bill to force candidates to disclose their offshore tax havens.