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Romney urged by Republicans to release tax returns

Mitt Romney appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to respond to the growing number of conservatives who are calling on the former Massachusetts governor to release more of his tax returns.

At least eight Republicans have urged Romney to publicize the records and put the issue behind him, but the candidate is sticking to his guns. The public will see just two years of returns and no more, Romney said, before appearing to admit that the records may contain something politically damaging:

ROMNEY: The Obama people keep on wanting more and more and more. More things to pick through, more things for their opposition research to try make a mountain out of and to distort and to be dishonest about. We’re going to put out two years of tax returns.

Republicans are also raising alarms about Romney’s returns. “The fact is, there are a couple of years he may not have paid any taxes,” MSNBC host and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough predicted during Monday’s Morning Joe. “Maybe he’s concerned about that. But if it’s going to come out, he needs to get it out now so he has a couple of months to explain it.”

Via ThinkProgress

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President Obama – “Romney wants ME to apologize?”

Seriously, folks, Romney practically walked into his own pothole here.

He spends months making up lines like “Obama apologizes to our foes” when the President has never done such a thing, and now turns around and says “We should be talking about the issues.” SRSLY?

And now that major news sources are investigating whether Romney has lied about his tenure with Bain Capital, Romney wants the President to apologize? For Romney’s own misstatements?

SRSLY.

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Why is Mitt Romney hiding his tax returns?

The answer is Mitt Romney knows his tax returns show how he used the system – albeit legally – to avoid paying fair tax rates the way middle-class Americans do.

He will look out of touch with most Americans by using tax shelters that really only apply to the super rich.

His campaign says Romney paid the same taxes whether his money was in Switzerland or the US. If that’s true, then why did he deposit his money in Swiss accounts and the Caymans?

Things that make you go “hmm…”

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Romney: Did he leave Bain Capital in 1999 or later?

So the issue is this: Mitt Romney has said he left Bain Capital in February 1999. Now, SEC documents show him to have stayed on as CEO of Bain for approximately three more years.

This matters because Romney has said all the things that happened (like outsourcing jobs and bankrupting companies) after 1999 when he said he wasn’t with the company weren’t his responsibility. But now, maybe they were since he is shown on company documents showing he was still CEO.

What it comes down to is: did Romney lie on SEC documents to protect his own investments and money? Or is he lying to the US public now?

Things that make you go “hmm…”

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Mitt Romney on unemployment – when HE was in charge

When Mitt Romney inevitably slams President Obama later today regardless of how good or bad the new jobs report is, he’ll likely say something along the lines of how the president needs to stop making excuses about inheriting a down economy.

But when Romney himself was running a government, in his case the state of Massachusetts, he was even more defensive about his lack of control of the employment picture than Obama is today. A new video unearthed by the liberal research group American Bridge shows Romney at a press conference in June 2006 admonishing reporters on disappointing jobs data. “You guys are bright enough to look at the numbers. I came in and the jobs had been just falling right off a cliff, I came in and they kept falling for 11 months,” he explains.

“And if you are going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should have immediately turned around, well that would be silly. It takes awhile to get things turned around. We were in a recession, we were losing jobs every month,” he added.

This isn’t a statement from decades ago. This is from five years ago.

Via Salon.com

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Election 2012: Bain Capital attacks showing effect on Romney’s poll numbers

Over the last two months, even as national polls have shown little movement in the race, something different has been happening in the battleground states. It’s as if there’s a parallel campaign in the states that are likely to determine the presidency, one with its own rhythms and realities.

In those states, President Obama has been pulling ahead. The gaps aren’t huge, but taken together, the numbers strongly suggest that Democrats’ relentless attacks on Mitt Romney’s business record at Bain Capital have been taking a toll.

Quinnipiac University polling last week in the three big classic swing states show the president with narrow but identifiable leads. He’s up four points in Florida, seven in Ohio, and six in Pennsylvania.

Among the things that those states have in common is that voters there have seen an avalanche of early advertising focused on questioning Romney’s business record.

The current electoral map, according to Real Clear Politics, shows when recent polls are taken into account President Obama looks to be at around the 221 mark right now. With Pennsylvania leaning his way, should he win Ohio (18) and Florida (29), that would put President Obama at 266. All he would need would be even the smallest swing state, New Hampshire (4) to win.

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Romney on healthcare reform: “It’s not a tax, it’s an assessment”

April 3, 2006 press conference on passing of health care bill by legislature’s conference committee.

Mitt Romney calls his version of healthcare reform, which the Affordable Healthcare Reform Act was based on in part, NOT a tax but an “assessment.”

Somehow, between then and now, while he approved of such things then, he now finds the same ideas repugnant.

To repeat: the ideas he signed into law THEN, he now finds repugnant.

That was clear enough, yes?

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Joy Behar on Mitt Romney and the gay vote

JOY BEHAR, HOST: Do you think Romney will ever get the gay vote? I don’t think he’s going to get it any way.
HOWARD BRAGMAN, REPUTATION.COM: No, I don’t, unless his sons do a spread in GQ shirtless, and then I think it’ll be fine.
BEHAR: Could it be that the GOProud guys are just attracted to Mitt Romney’s sons Matt, Mutt, Tag, Tip, Tack, and Bashful? Do you think that’s the issue?
BRAGMAN: I would love a magic underwear photo shoot. I think we could…
BEHAR: What is that, anyway? Haven’t they seen “The Book of Mormon?” They call themselves gay and they haven’t been to “The Book of Mormon?” Unbelievable.

I just love Joy Behar. Makes me laugh 🙂