Stick a fork in Romney.

He is done like dinner no matter if he releases his tax returns or not and no matter what the polls are saying for now.

If he releases them he is screwed.

If he does not release them he is screwed.

Mitt Romney made the case for his Bain business experience being what qualfies him to be President.

He made his case. Now he has to ( lie ) in it !

Can't even vote on that one. All of the above?

Hey I thought I said that? LOL!

I wrote before i read, XO. Sorry.

Great minds think alike huh! Either that or we have a firm grasp of the obvious!!!

I didn't vote either. We need an Equal Damage button!

I think it would do more damage if he did, however I think this may be part of his plan to release them 'too late' because they are thousands of pages it will take a while before the media found anything to report, or maybe he thinks nobody is 'bright' enough to find anything...

xxxooo, Either way will hurt him. Poor Mitt, he wants an apology for all the mean things Obama says about him. All together now folks: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.................

PS "Jack" OK. He'll outlive us all. Thank heaven.

Hope. I think the case Mitt made is more like a pine box!

Hey India ! Hahahaha Boo Coo Debreze !

Don't you just love Romney's newest excuse about Bain : " Retro-Active Retirement ! "

Right. He Retroactively Retired like Madonna has become a Retroactive Virgin !

I voted figuring it would be a split decision, I was right. Romney is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't..... who care, as long as this corporate raider is exposed for the fraud that he truly is.

I agree. I voted not releasing as my answer , but not releasing or releasing will be damaging to him. He can not win either way.

I guess it's OK for him to lie over and over about Obama, but sooooooooo mean if Obama says one thing about him. Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh,...... so sowwy Mitty. Can't take it, huh......? Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh....

why do we think he doesn't want to release them?

he is hiding something.

the annointed and "special" mitt romney thinks he can ride this out until the election. can he? i guess we'll find out.

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. ROTFFL

That's A Loaded Question There - What Can Anyone Believe - Either Way ??? Seriously !!

OMG India - You Are Starting to Spell Like ME ------ I LOVE-IT - You GO Girl ♥♥♥♥♥!!!

India its nice to hear you don't have Jack in a box!

@xxx ooo

I agree... ole Mutt is between a rock and a hard place, but for the first time, I'm going with Mutt on this one. He must have a lot of damaging stuff to hide, since he seems to think it's better to hide that stuff than release any more tax information. He must think it's really going to get him in trouble.

That was a tricky question allot like Tricky Mitt! I think he in deep Kimchee either way ! For a man as rich as he is not to know his own finances is crazy! You know all the deals Bain made with him running the show had to be a shell game. He has something that will hang his hide out to dry for sure!

Is Mitt so wealthy he could care less as long as somebody else takes care of it for him ? I do not want to here the song and dance Ryan and others have given. They are dancing around his business dealings and frankly i am tired of the stone walling!

Romney is in a jam, just like I saw a photo of a skunk who got his head caught in a big jar! Who will go near that skunk to get him out of prediciment? Either way skunk is in a big pickle and so is Wilard Romney. Boy that fat boy limbo was going with another labor pain!

MD/ MI , I agree he is certainly the most off the wall candidate the re pubs have chosen !

INDIA #1.8 - Sorry I have to correct you on your response but it's BOO F***ING HOO for Romney.

Lies always catch up with the one who lies......Just cookies and donuts desserts, I mean.

DScully, Wonder if he could bring Bain Capitol down with what hes done. There certainly seems to be illegal activity on his account.

TM, He seems to of skated through life and i bet he had others doing his work and has know idea what he did at Bain. He just likes to fire people!

He has to be the MOST CORRUPT POLITICIAN out there !!!!! He is DAMMED if HE DO and DAMMED if HE DONT !!!

Its SCARRRY , that OLD MITT is AFRAID to put out HIS TAXES ?!?!?!??? WHY NOT !!! His DAD GAVE 12YEARS !! SAID that if ONLY 1 or 2 YEARS is GIVEN , it LEAVES room for FUNKY BUSINESS to be HIDDEN !!!!!

OCCUPY the VOTE !!! Make it MADE IN AMERICA !!! 99% LIVES !!!!!!!!!!

Probably needed an option for either way. I say that he may well be cooked, whatever he ends up doing, simply because his reality is counter to the interests of the majority of American voters.

Romney's like a bisexual. He gets screwed either way.

Yep, Robme is done, either way he goes he's gonna lose...catch 22, damned if you do & damned if you don't!!!! Either way, mittens is toast! Obama/Biden 2012

Hi Pam

Well.... to tell you the truth, the tax laws have been rigged in favor of the rich so much that there probably isn't too much they can do that isn't perfectly legal unfortunately. Yet some still aren't satisfied with the miniscule restrictions they do have and still manage to break laws.

But I would go more with BIG UNETHICAL BEHAVIORS on Mutt's part in relation to taxes and business practices than illegal. Things like hiding lots of money off shore and shipping massive amounts of jobs to China, etc. Then of course, there are his investments in companies that profit off that off-shoring or profit off things like abortions... which would be a big NO-NOs for the conservative base, the TEAbaggers and his church also.

Right now... without that documentation out in the public, Mutt can deny he did any of those things, but if it comes out in his tax records... he can't deny it or else he has to say he lied on his taxes... which would mean some BIG trouble with those subversive FEDS and IRS.

Hey Ted! #122 OK, I can dig that! LOL

XXXOOO, Good one, Jack in the box! LOL First time I laughed all day. We were so worried. Damn cat, how did we get so besotted by this cat!!! You'd about have to put me in the box with him, I swear! Same with my husband. Nuts over him! But he's OK, just needs antibiotics for a week or so.

TRC that's boarding on conservative....

That's great Indy but I'm bummed out Jon Lord died. Deep Purple keyboard wizard.

Sorry to hear that. I am not familiar with him.

Smoke on the Water ring a bell?

DScully , Now that the question has been driven home . I wonder can the FCC or IRS get him for tax evasion ? When a man like him could be elected president is there as president a full disclosure of wealth and assets . I can't think of what i am trying to say.

XXXOOO Yes, it does. Sorry. That was a great piece. I am way more into classical, but I do know that piece. I don't always know the names of the band members. Like, I love Pink Floyd, but apart from Roger Waters, I am lost on the member's names.

You gotta be a fan to know unless they kill someone or something the media grabs.

Glover, Blackmore, Gillan

but it was the keyboards.

space trucking, lazy, hush

Hush, hush, I thought I heard her callin' my name. Now, hush, hush...... Oooooo....that's the song that caught my attention.....

You're correct, Pilot. It was the keyboards.... Jon Lord was the genius behind Deep Purple.

Listened to a video today (courtesy of xxx). It was the best thing I've heard out of that band since Hush. It came at the exact time today that I needed to hear it. And what a performance.

Hi India

What happened to your kitty? I finally had to start dosing my Siamese with an herbal remedy called YUCCA INTENSIVE before I could cure her of that limp she had. None of the usual remedies I used for her arthritis would help.

@Pam

LOL.... I'm not exactly sure what you are saying either, but I also hope the IRS can get Robme for tax evasion. That would be great!

DScully, he had an ear infection.

All Obama had in his background was being a community organizer(ha); but he does have the media (esp. MSNBC) in his back pocket.

1-800-WhineyRighty

when and if this IDIOT ever releases anything it'll just reenforce what we NORMAL THINKING ADULTS already know HE'S A LYING TAX EVADING JERK. HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE OUR PRESIDENT. in fact, he doesn't hold a candle to OBAMA. OBAMA 2012

"Palos si voga, palos si no voga." I say this because he will be hurting any ways whether he release them ( now is getting late and people will believe he doctored them) and if he doesn't people will think he has something to hide.. He has been deceitful from his youth. He deceived people by dressing as a police officer, and stopping motorists. And his name in the SEC documents deceived a federal agency. What does that tell a discerning public who love this country and know that the best position in the country is not to be given to a habitual deceiver. Whether he release them his tax returns or not, the harm is already done.

Then this "retroactive retirement" sounds really fishy and it smells foul. I know that his own party believes they would have to get an impressive VP as part of the ticket otherwise they will lose. I wonder how come Ann Coulter predicted the darn thing.

billy ~ mit romoney has big business in his back pocket / front pocket / shirt pocket / magic underwear pocket ?! just look at citizens united which says that corporations are poeple !!!!!!!! it says businesses , no matter from which country can have tha same rights as a us citizen !!!!!!!!

@afrommi

Like I had a 'retroactive' pregnancy.

LOL Ethelouise ! Like I am Retroactively 39 years old again ( and not 59 ) !

ETHELOUISE - So when's the retroactive birth ?

Hope, Let's all be retroactively 25 again! (and know what we know now!) LOL

I'd like to be retroactively in the Bahamas right now! And be 25!

Fake cop....I forgot about that, afrommi. Like Willard isn't creepy enough. He violated his magic underwear or maybe he took them off so he could start his career as a menace to society. Bad Mormon, bad.....either way.

Hi, BTW, my friend !!!!

It isn't about wealth and YOU know it !

It is about not hiding from the truth about your past ! Get real !!

Obama's transcripts are available to view for a fee. Go view them. Put up or shut up.

oh emperor you are such a troll. hiding tax returns and money in other countries is far worse than hiding school records, and by the way don't you think after 3 yrs. in office that you right-wing nuts would have already found something? please go away and take your lies somewhere ealse. and you have now been blocked.

EO...

You do know, Barack Obama graduated Harvard with Summa Cum Laude, right?

You do know, the only way to graduate Summa Cum Laude is by having a straight-A average, right?

You hate to admit a BLACK man is SMARTER than you, right?

Undoubtedly, an easy target to reach...

'Ignore'...

Hey Emperor: where do you belong, are you part of the 15% millionaires and billionaires who control 93% of the financial wealth of the country and who really can't care any less about this country or its people. Or are you one of us the bottom 85% who shares 7% of the wealth. We are the ones who through bad policies of the past has kept the top elite in their place up there where they don't even do their own laundry or go grocery shopping. Romney did not even know how much a a gallon of mild.

Are you part of the hard working people or are you a wanna be rich who are being brainwashed into thinking that the system as it is will help you get there.

What ever you are at this time I think you owe it to yourself to look into the GOP or any other party closely.

Look who is the one thinking about your interest and who are the ones who want him to fail and who what ever they have done is that end and not to help the country come out avanti from this crisis. President Barack Obama has been alone and manage to put this country in the positive side of the graphs without the help of the saboteur, obstructing GOP congress.

To vote pro your best interest you would do well to vote Democratic.

OBAMA 2012! NEW CONGRESS!

Hope I so agree with you. He is the first to do what he did and they drug that out as well one years taxes. I want to see back to when he made a pirates ransom for closing jobs and i guess he shipped them to the moon since he tells the lie there's no proof he sent them to China! Did he find them make the deals and not give a damn where they went?

Billie, You hit the Romney nail on the head! Him and all the rest of the schmucks that have hidden money in off shore accounts have short changed America. Those taxes pay for teachers, policemen, firemen and so many things here. They are turn coats as far as i am concerned and he of all people is not worthy to be President of USA!!!!!!

Right on Pam !

That mid C average wasn't too bad was it? 71 in Political Science. Guess that explains his 8 years.

I wasn't going to chime in tonight but I couldn't help it after the Republican Panelist did what they do so well about the Commercial.The spin he tried to put on it by trying to change the context of the commercial into a forum on singing;whether Mitt or Barack was the better singer;instead of the substance of the commercial being about Bain

@Afromm

A democratic senate as well. Working on that now that I live in a 'swing state'.

LOL at the re-reg troll hater bigot!

he isn't even close to being close to anybody who has more then two nickles to rub together. Well LOL he makes maybe 25 dollars a day trolling for dollars.

GWB posted his transcript.

Laughing at you, Oba Wan. Pay close attention unlike Bush Jr in pol-sci class. He didn't volunteer those transcripts....they got hacked.

Bet you just hate love redistribution of the wealth to the top.

Hi, Pilot !!!! Warm enough for ya?

Seriously Kathe !

When our tax dollars are re-distributed to the Robber Barons - it is just good business.

When our tax dollars are re-distributed to the Middle Class who paid them in the first place and deserve the services paid back to them -- it is called welfare.

That the hell is wrong with this picture ?

Where do they get all these TFB (Turd For Brains) from.We have a lively debate as to the politics of the Country and its effect on the majority of us and then one of the TFB's comes on and all they can do is point out partisan whining; you spilled my milk so I'm going to throw your cookie on the floor.I mean they never never make a substantial or substantive remark,its always the Republican talking Points.I know its wrong to wish Harm on anyone but I wish Rush would loose his ability to hear and speak that stripped shirt wearing Demon.Truly the most dangerous Man in America as he has been called and also repeats it with glee.He's the one that truly hates America.

Hello Kathe,

it feels good, but then again i moved up here from Las Vegas NV (Nevada for the trolls who might think News Vine). looks as if it will drop to a nice comfortable weather. how is it up there in your part of heaven?

Emperor Obama, He graduated from Harvard with exceptionally high grades. I believe it was summa cum laude, or magna cum laude. Do you know how hard it is to GET into Harvard, let alone graduate with honours?!

He did not get in because he was black, if that is your inference. He got in because he is SMART, and had good grades. You do not head the law review if you are a dolt.

Get a grip, you're just talking nonsense. Into Foxworld, are you? Drinking that toxic Foxaid? Bad, bad, bad stuff.

They get PAID really well to LIE to you! How does that make you feel, to know you've been suckered in?

Hi Simpson!!!!

Lush Limpbag that realize that horizontal stripes make him "look" fat. His boy friends should let him on that important fashion tip.

He's the most dangerous mouth in the USA. Someone should disarm it. It's unsafe to have it around. There should be a way of trapping that toxic gas from that windbag, freeze dry it and cocoon it in r/tp tycoons' backyards.

Get a life, EO.

@XXX OOO

I know I wanted that too!

Fee, Fi, Foe, Fum....I smell a re-reg who thinks we're dumb. So what else is new? Can somebody open the window please? <phewy>

Both....all of the above....either....eh, whatever....one from column A and one from column B....I'll take "Screwed in the 2012" for 10,000 Romney bucks, Alec....

Hi, xxx!!!! Thank you. Hi, Ethelouise!!!!

hey Kathe--how's it goin?

Hey Rachael - very good now. Thanks for asking. I found some more strength to carry on. Going to see to it that my Mom starts taking care of herself since her husband died last Tuesday. Everything is going to be done right by her from now on.....or some body's got to get past me first. We don't get to choose our parents but, they deserve to be respected and protected no matter what when they get up in years.

Indeed but the righties are saying it don't matter! Just a while back they where holding up signs "Any one but Mitt" LOL! What a bunch of doorknobs!

Anyone but Mitt is correct. He is as crooked as a slimy snake.

Shoeleft... Please don't insult the snakes. They aren't slimey but scaley.

Snakes contibute alot more to the world than romney ever could. At least they eat vermin instead of being vermin.

Romney is damned no matter what he does with his tax returns.

John Foster , I so agree with you. He is getting away with highway robbery. He hides his billions in off shore bank accounts and the wealthy spend there billions on him to get there own personal president. What is very wrong with this picture?

Darn taxes! Ha ha ha!

XXX OOO, He is still like the school boy who thinks he has got away with it and will not get caught! I think he is skirmming like worm on hook and hopes they can cover his wrong doings.

He is a darn crook. He can run but he can't hide.

HOPE - In due time we'll find out the truth on WILLIE ROMNEY.Hopefully,it's before the elections.

Ted By the time we find out he will have packed up everything and headed to Switzerland especially if he is guilty ! Daddy's not here to get him out of trouble this time!

Exactly Ted. The way this unfolding it that the final knock out punch will be delivered about a month before the elections !

Romney Lies While Democracy Dies !

President Obama/Joe Biden/ And a Democratic Majority in 2012 !

Hope, That should be bumper sticker Romney lies while Democrasy Dies !

Absolutely Pam. Short message. HUGE meaning !

@Hope42012 and Pam52

May I suggest as a bumper sticker : This country does not need another 'businessman' we need a President! Obama/Biden 2012

Plus a demorcatic majority in the congress and senate!

Ethelouise, I agree a business man like him would bring havock by closing and shutting down everything he finds non essential to his bottom line. Some one would love to make a killing on whats left of America. I just want to slap the TV when he gets on his high and mighty and talks about jobs in America. Its like look in the mirror you fool you made America what it is today. You shipped jobs out of here as fast as you could. His record on anything is disgusting! He who flaunts his wealth like a peacock!

Ethelouise that is a great suggestion ! You are so right about that Pam !

How about, MITT HAS BAIN DAMAGE!

The pain of Bain will take Mitt down the drain.

Willard is a ZERO!

Willard is minus 10 and falling.

Being a Wall Street guy he sure doesn't know when to sell!

XXX - I don't think he could get away with telling the IRS that.Don't think that WE are not going to believe it either.Even if it did happen,he would have to do them all over again.

Time to get out the hose...again!

XXX - The only question that I got for that is, Who's getting hosed ?

@Ted

The dog 'sick' numbers 1 and 2. Just replace the word 'sick' with mitt.

But if he does it will be like ejector seat button!

Push the damn button...

Ooohhhhh too bad. In his case it should be the REJECT button.

Nah not yet let um spend a bunch of money on him first and then after they pick his VP. Time to punch out!

XXX - By that time,Ron Paul would have the nomination and we wouldn't have to put up with Romney.

But if he does it will be like ejector seat button!

And if he doesn't, won't the result be same?

You leftists just don't seem to be able to make up your minds....can you. Then you accuse Romney of doing the same. Typical leftists hypo-critters. I tell you!!!

Go to the mailbox and sit and wait for your checks. Wouldn't want to see you people get a job.....now would we? <wink>

I'd be fine with that but our checks better be coming from China out Willard's profits from my job he sent over there! Hey if he takes my job he should pay me for taking it! But you righties think we need jobs HA HA HA! Why! <winky back>

by that reasoning alone...Cheney and Bush should be on their way to the war crimes tribunal by now...

If you are referring to Iraq war then more then half of congress would be right there with them including alot of democrats

Also news Flash Bush isn't running for president MSNBC needs to better inform the few viewers they do have . I don't blame Microsoft one bit

You know you are a Teabagger when :

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no
threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on on
illegal war.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden in Tora Bora.

The Reich-Wing Republican Joke Page

You know you are a Teabagger when :

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no
threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on on
illegal war.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden in Tora Bora.

The Reich-Wing Republican Joke Page

OOPS !

OOPS

Hope isnt that just another Teapublican punch line?

LOL

Hehehehehe !

PILOTSHARK - It sure sounds like it.

HOPE - You better not be a tea-publican or we will have to slap you silly(er) than you already are (oops).

Exqueeze me ??

I said OOPS for accidentally posting the same thing twice and you and xxxooo turn that into my being a Teapublican ??

Nothing line trying to embarrass a fellow Progressive blogger. Good job.

HOPE - It was not XXX who said that.It was PILOTSHARK and I just stated that if you are one,we just might have to slap you silly(er) than what you already are.I am beyond silly(er).If you slap me,it will have to be silly(estly) since I am waaaaayyyy beyond silly.

Yes I realize it was Pilotshark not xxxooo. That is not the point. Trying to cover up telling me that you would slap me silly(er) for being a Teapublican -- by saying you were talking about yourself -- is really dishonest. And questioning weather or not I am a Teapublican on a national Progressive blog is not the least bit funny either. You should be ashamed of yourself but you obviously are not.

excuse me please!!!

i said what i said as a rebuttal to the jokes, as OOPS is a punch line now. thanks to rick the not so swift perry.

wasn't out to TRY and EMBARRASS no one at any time.

so apologeties to anyone who though, think that!

Teapublicans are vile. Equating my using the word oops with it coming from a Teapublican is humiliating and encouraged Ted to make his violent remarks. Thanks.

wow

sorry you feel that way!!!!!!!

guess i will just take you off my friends list!

sad sad sad!!!

over a meaningless JOKE!!! seeing you was the one telling them!!

Pilot. I tried to respond with humor to your wisecrack at first. That is obvious by my hehehehe response. I understand you were trying to be funny. Ted was not. Seriously, what is meaningless about referring to a fellow Progressive blogger as a Teapublican or having a fellow Progressive blogger talk about slapping me silly(er) ? There is a direct connection between these two things. I accept your apology though.

Good one! Short but right on!

LOL David ! Good one !

Mitt is certain he's the Man of the Hour,
Obama should quail before his power...
He should examine himself,
And the source of his wealth,
'Fore the People kick him off his high tower...

It won't matter he'll just pull out one of his golden parachutes!

the fact that mitt is not prepared for this shows us just how "special" he thinks he is. i can't believe that he didn't think this would be an issue.

mitt, c'mon.

Mitt Romney can't get out of this mess
By revealing the source of his success...
By releasing his note,
He'd be cutting his throat,
By showing how he swindled IRS...

Honestly David !

The IRS has a case against him.

The SEC has a case against him.

American's who have been screwed by Bain Capital have a case against him !

His own party has a case against him !

Better go live with your money in Switzerland Romeny. No one wants you here.

But Switzerland has SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!! Romney can't go live there. Iran would be better for him.

Hoover created the Great Depression,
G.W. created the Great Recession.
If Mitt Romney should win,
What a mess we'd be in,
The Revolt would be the Great Aggression!

David Johnston , You are on fire tonight. This last one is so over the top. I think Romneys crown is tarnished ! I believe all the bad Karma he sent out is comming back to him finally!

Zena, He would buy his own island and build a castle ! He is so removed from mainstream America in so many ways that he is by far the worst person that could ever set in the oval office! Hes a liar, a cheat and its pathetic he can't see it!

PAM - Does that mean that we could BANISH him there for life.

David you got one for American Spring/Fall?

@suzette

Mitt thought he could get away with this because Dick Cheney did it. No one EVER questioned him.

Slick Willard had a talk with Dicky tried to get some pointers but it was no deal because Cheney wanted a soul.

xxooo, #16 Or they weren't ALL there!

Bain damage. Mitt has Bain damage.

Indeed he sent all his assets overseas but he doesn't mind!

Becky, Exactly. The man is an unpatriotic crook, gaming the American tax system to his advantage and the country's disadvantage.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!

Ted, If he is this elusive about his taxes how or why would any nation in the world trust him ?