John McCain Refuses to Release his Wife’s Tax Records

In a move that seems quite a bit John Kerry-esque, John McCain has refused to release his wife’s tax records. This is a man who claims he wants to bring “transparency” back to Washington.

John McCain on Friday faced accusations of hypocrisy for failing to disclose his wife’s tax records, despite his promise to bring greater transparency and accountability to government.

Transparency and accountability indeed, but only when it applies to other people it seems. McCain has released his own tax records, he files separately from his wife, but refuses to release his wife’s to protect the privacy of their children. This excuse doesn’t fly when it comes to Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington who said:

“McCain has been the most outspoken about ethics so he is held to a particularly high standard of transparency,”

If John McCain wants to put his money, pardon the pun, where his mouth is then it is time for him to do what John Kerry finally did, and what Hillary Clinton finally did and release the tax records. This whole do as I say not as I do attitude makes John McCain come off as a lecturing parent figure and not a leader of the free world.

In a move years ago that was also John Kerry-esque John McCain left his wife for a rich heiress and joined the senate. The parallels are striking. Not releasing his wife’s tax records shows us an elitist attitude, the same elitist attitude he is trying to pin on Obama and Clinton. The same elitist attitude of John Kerry. But their records have been made public, when will yours be Senator McCain?