Eric Fehrnstrom, senior adviser to the Romney Campaign, responds to his Etch-a-Sketch remarks and says Mitt Romney will release the full 2011 tax report after he files.
Mitt Romney's senior campaign adviser, Eric "Etch A Sketch" Fehrnstrom, was back on TV today to make yet another blunder.
This time Fehrstrom said his boss has no plans to release additional tax return information, even as The Washington Post reports the $250 million candidate has hidden his finances by taking advantage of an "obscure exception in federal ethics laws."
Fehrnstrom told MSNBC's The Daily Rundown that the campaign has been forthcoming and complied with all laws considers the material put out so far (the 2010 tax return, an estimate for 2011 and a full 2011 report, when it's ready) to be "sufficient."
Romney’s 2010 returns showed he made over $20 million that year and had offshore accounts in Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands. But as The Washington Post reports, Romney’s existing returns hide much of what Romney is actually invested in by listing only the funds he owns, not their underlying investments. And critics charge that Romney is refusing to release previous returns because they might have additional embarrassing information.
The issue is not likely to go away. President Obama tweeted out the Post piece last night:
So what's Romney hiding? Tweet @MittRomney to demand he release his tax returns. #WhatsRomneyHiding
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 5, 2012
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stiff mitt Romney if you can't come clean with the american people and show at lease ten years of tax returns you should be disqualified and not allowed to run because of incogitant
TYPICAL mittster !!!! Gee WIZ = Ya Think That He May Be Hiding Something ????????
Who gives a rats a$$! Football is more important!
HEY = Thats My Line !!!!! ya Cluck !!!!!!<s>
Oh no, I'm seeing double, double........ouch!
Hiding and lying. Trade marks of Mitt Romney. Does this guy ever speak the truth?
He said he was a Mormon.
Did Ya Think That He Was Going To Expose Himself In A Trenchcoat !!!!!????????
I can't believe that Mitt Rmoney, before giving a stomp speech, holds hands with his wife to say a prayer, then he tells many lies during the speech. I'd like to know what God the Rmoneys address their prayers to.
If Mitt Rmoney becomes the right-wing nominee, I doubt that the Democrats and President Obama's campaign will let this tax issue go away. The guy is simply dishonest.
I Guess Romney wants to keep up with the Easter Bunny and hide his eggs so no one can see what he has. If he Is going to lie to us before he takes office what on earth would he do if he got elected? If he wants to be transparent and believable then disclose everything. I do not want Liar and Chief !!!!!
Don't think the Easter Bunny will leave him any votes.....he can "run" but he can't keep hiding his assets!
We had enough of that with GWB and cronies...
Most of whom would be resurrected in a Romney administration...
See you are enjoying you new sight on the vine!
TM, Pam and I had some fun there yesterday.
We were both clueless at first, but caught on. It's a brain teaser!
As to Romney, he is using Karl Rove's strategy, which means he attributes things to Obama which are his own weaknesses. Like, he says that Obama is "out of touch"! Obama "flip-flops"! That's a much used strategy and people who don't know better believe it. They count on that.
Is it my imagination or is this a new type-set? It seems a bit bolder or something. I like it.
BTW There is a song link on P7 of the GOP war on women that I am pretty sure you will love. Just click. Let me know. I love it so much and they did it today at church.
Let me get this straight...Obama is chastising someone else for not being open and forthcoming? for hiding something? ROTFLMAO...now that is the height of hypocrisy!
Not from where you're standing.
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the hypocrisy is wanting Obama to produce a birth certificate that he could not obtain a secret clearance without and willard flat out refusing not divulge his tax info.
what is Obama not being open and forthcoming about?
Storm surely you can see how many on the far right from Palin, to Bachmann to Joe Arpaio or Donald Trump have either outright declared the president not a citizen or have been silent and chosen not to denounce those statement when present organically with such an oppurtunity as Rick Santorum has
so many have on the far right have demanded Obama release the document he has already provided with the idea that he has "nothing to hide" despite the condescending and insulting overtones
Romney has accused the president of hiding things from the american people so because he is hiding everything from his real beliefs to his tax returns many see that as hyprocrisy
I didn't mention a single word about a birth certificate...I believe he is a US citizen born in Hawaii. That is a non-issue for me...Typical lefties...jumping to conclusions.
His college records, papers, etc are a different matter.
Meaningless BS again. Funny how last month we had all that right wing noise about Obama's time in college with radicals then they go back to the sealed records nonsense that is meaningless except to birthers who want to use school records to prove Obama isn't a natural born citizen. But our little tea friend isn't a birther, he is just a concerned citizen who isn't concerned just misinformed and wants to make issues out of non issues.
Storm I am talking to you not about you fact is many on the far right have decided to run around and play games with the birht cerificate stuff like it's no big deal. So you should see based on this why Obama having had this said about him might find saying what he did about romney also as no big deal?
If someone isn't releasing something that shouldn't be a bid deal and yet still refuse to release it no matter does it is not valid to ask why they will not release the information? To ask what are they hiding...........
Like Obama's college transcripts, papers, etc?
You can't have it both ways CC
How was vacation Whom?
Perhaps if they hadn't been released, except they have otherwise where would Hannity pull out to try and scare us.........they are not hidden....so actually I can have it like that
more importantly the actions or short comings of others does not give Romney or anyone else on the right to have it both ways either
Does the alleged hyprocrisy of obama give romney the right to be hyprocrital? No, obviously not.
LOL poor little tea bagger wants Obama to show something that no other president was required to show. GWB never released his school records either, they were leaked out to the press illegally. I'm sorry CC but as you can see our little friend doesn't want to do anything more then run his mouth trying to make something stick, so he doesn't deserve the level of respect you give him, he takes that as a weakness in you. Since when did school records become a requirement for holding office anyhow.
There is no legal requirement for a candidate to release ANY tax returns....
Hypocrisy exists both ways on this situation...rather hypocritical that the Dems are calling for Romney to release tax returns while Obama won't release his school records.
Once again, you can't have it both ways.
@storm - Whether you like it or not Mitt Rmoney will be forced to release at least 12 years of his tax returns, if he becomes the right-wing nominee. The Democrats and President Obama's campaign will make it a campaign issue, trust me.
Is Mittens going to release his school records storm? I don't hear you calling for Mittens to release his. Why are Obama's school records important yet how much Mittens has off shore in his tax havens isn't. Gee storm you do know that it is illegal to hide wealth from the government didn't you. Oh I know storm you are more concerned that somehow Obama doesn't have the education needed to hold the office but again storm education isn't a requirement to hold office.
good one pam. who knows what he's really worth and where else he has his "eggs". but we know he can't beat obama anyway.
That is correct, kv. the right does not want romney either. I predict thay will stay home in droves.
he's been a political loser in the past and he's going to lose again....makes no difference how rich he is or how much the gop tries to suppress dem. votes.
kv6707, Sometimes even money can't buy you love! It'll buy him the nomination, though. I doubt very much he could beat Obama. Firstly, it's proven to be quite hard to beat an incumbent president, and while our economy is not where we want it, it is slowly but surely improving. (In spite of congress's roadblocks and intransigence!)
"Sometimes even money can't buy you love! It'll buy him the nomination"
not even! there just is no better choice!
I feel bad that he is such a bozo. He just can't get it right......he is so wrong.
Mitt will never show past years, he doesn't have to. Unless he gets audited and unless something isn't kosher and maybe not even than. Does it matter? Only to make him look like a crook and a liar. But we know that already.
What other President has been asked(demanded) to show a birth certificate, college transcripts and grades? No one, that's who! So what would you Righties say if we demanded Romney show everything for the last ten years or maybe even longer? Just how much money does he REALLY have, where is he hiding it, is he still getting money from Bain, etc. You guys would be screaming and yelling your heads off! Republicans are a miserable lot. You're so blinded by hate you refuse to see the truth when it's right in front of your face.
They want to search Obama's school records in the hopes it will prove he isn't a US citizen by birth. You know psychotics, it is part of their mental disorder caused by delusions of grandeur.
Their delusions are going to come to a grinding halt in Nov I'm afraid! LOL
Nope. If 2008 didn't convince the birthers nothing will, the Republicans trying to cater to those people will hopefully stop in november.....at least for a little while. But the conspiracy portion that has become a part of this tea party movement will always exist. There is something in this country that I call the "evangelical conspiracy movement" that believes a series of nwo religious conspiracies. These folks are on the edge of the american protestant movement and believe generally that a powerful satanic force is taking or has control of the country.
Look back in the '80's....I know it's tough with all the decadence, cocaine, alcohol and hairspray..........but remember back those folks who claimed that hair metal was helping spread satanism around the world and that satanic cults were abusing thousands of people across the country. Well the rumors got so bad the FBI investigated, and no surprise they found it was bs urban legends and personal insults against folks they didn't like.......now what does this have to do with today? Well there are still folks who claim the very same debunked myths that have been proven false. Point is the conspiracy believers who spread this stuff will never stop their silly claims they can only fade into the background.
True CC, they will never believe that there isn't a vast liberal conspiracy tied to the media because they refuse to admit that all media today is out for the buck and run stories that will give them ratings. That they believe Fox news is not a part of that ratings game while claiming how great Fox ratings are just feeds into their inability to question beliefs. That they can't grasp that while we do agree with MSNBC commentators that doesn't mean we accept every thing they say as the absolute truth and we will call them out on the carpet for getting something wrong.
At least with MSNBC they will apologize and correct something if they get it wrong, whereas Fox denies it or ignores the mistake completely.
im sure you will ask for obama to release his tax returns in the years he had business dealings with convicted felon rezko?
LOL
this election in a deminted way is going to be the teapublicants Waterloo.
I wonder does Romney tell the IRS what is “sufficient“, the same way he tells the 300,000,000 Americans of whom he wants to work for?
Well, I for one am sure glad Romney finally set the American people straight on the matter of HIS taxes, does he think his daddy would be proud, if he knew what his son was up to?
It’s a good thing we didn’t ask to see all his individual Cayman Island and Swiss Bank accounts.
Finally, we “non-corporate” voters know 'absolutely’, that Mitty ‘indeed’, DOES HAVE A LOT TO HIDE.
...And what a better way to prove it to all us peon voters of the 99% than for old Mr. .001% himself, to reveal that he is NOT quite as honest, moral, and upright as his wife says he is! LOL
I wonder what else he showed John McCain that he can't show us.
…Maybe it was his religious underwear drawer.