This guy looked at Mitt Romney's tax returns and,

believe him, they prove everything he says about them.

This guy looked at Mitt Romney's tax returns and,

believe him, they prove everything he says about them.

"We'll believe it when we see it,” Reid’s spokesman, Adam Jentleson, said Thursday. “Until Mitt Romney releases his tax returns, Americans will continue to wonder what he's hiding. Romney seems to think he plays by a different set of rules than every other presidential candidate for the last thirty years, all of whom lived up to the standard of transparency set by Mitt Romney's father and released their tax returns."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office still isn't buying Mitt Romney's latest claim that he paid at least 13 percent in taxes every year for the past decade. Reid's response is the same one every Democrat ought to be giving on the subject. Prove it:Harry Reid has been right from the get-go. It's simple. Mitt Romney can clear everything up just by releasing his tax returns. If he's telling the truth that he is in the 35 percent income tax bracket but has only been paying at the 13 percent level all these years—not at a much lower level—then he can release the returns, embarrass Reid, extract an apology and come out smelling, well, like a guy in the 35 percent tax bracket who regularly pays a 13 percent rate, what the average construction worker does.

Until then, he should stop embarrassing himself with the "trust me" comments.

Given the massive string of lies Romney has saturated his campaign with, it's hard to take seriously media commentary that says:



[T]hey are asking the American public to believe that a major party presidential candidate willingly lied about his financial past. And that’s a major leap.

Puhleez. The major leap is to take anything this candidate says on faith.

Romney seems to believe that if he just keeps repeating what he's been saying it will ultimately be accepted. How dare he be challenged. He seems to think that calling people who want him to release those tax returns "small minded" will shift the tide among the 63 percent Americans who think he should do so. A 63 percent that includes at least 20 prominent Republicans.

There's nothing "small-minded" about Reid's bulldog approach in this matter. On the contrary. Romney's tax returns aren't a distraction. They go to the heart of what he is about.