And the extent of Romney's involvement with Bain while it was going on.

AIDS and famine in Ethiopia and elsewhere have taught us you CAN be "too thin."

Now we are finally beginning to realize you can also be "too rich."

I agree with your post. All that happened before he claimed he was not involved with Bain in those later years. I believe his tax records show the added 100,000 as Bain chairman, thus proving he was a liar and the possibility of him breaking federal law.......

His 2008 and 2009 tax returns. Even the 2010 tax returns are incomplete because he did not release the required supporting tax forms for his Swiss bank holdings for that year. This means Romney has so far not released his complete tax returns for any single year. None.

to make it easier for you people to examine my tax records:

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They are certainly toxic for him.

I don't doubt that Romney's actions were meticulously legal. That's an old army term I posted. It means that strictly speaking, his ass was covered. It's to avoid terms like "right" and "wrong."

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"I don't doubt that Romney's actions were meticulously legal. That's an old army term I posted. It means that strictly speaking, his ass was covered."

...participated in amnesty, his ass wasn't covered. In fact, is his ass was covered, he'd release them. My guess is his returns answer a lot of the accusations and questions, and that's not good for Romney.

Schmidt saying that they're not like "the average American" implies that no one will understand them. You know, they're too complex for "you people."

Since Obama released his returns back to 2000, does that mean his returns are more "American" than Romney's?

They can't seem to get this response thing down.

It would mean that at some point his ass was uncovered, but now he's legal.

People seem so locked in. I wonder if the revelation will affect any votes?

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Amnesty was offered in 2009 (and 2011), so McCain's people would not have seen that in their review.

just for starters.

You know, the line that says, "Amount You Owe"?


It must be the Magic Underwear.

I always owe them, well, something.

Says the same man who also said the below -

Hes a felon.

Now all my illusions are shattered. Whatever shall I do?

Edited to add: What an effin' doofus.

So, Steve saying this means squat.

how Repubs rail against "amnesty" for people here illegally but advocate "amnesty" for money in tax shelters and offshore accounts.

Don't need his tax returns to know that.

on Lawrence O'Donnell's show last week and he said NO, he didn't see them, they would have been reviewed by others vetting the potential VP candidates.

Here's what he said on July 17:

"Steve Schmidt, who managed Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008, said on Monday that he never personally saw Mitt Romney’s taxes but that they were not raised as a reason not to select him as McCain’s running mate in an interview on MSNBC’s “Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell.

“I never saw the tax returns, Lawrence,” Schmidt said. Schmidt said they would have been seen by Rick Davis, who ran McCain’s vetting operation. But he didn’t see the taxes raised as an issue, he said."

Now he's saying he saw them. Interesting.

Here is a link to TPM with the video of him saying he never saw them:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/steve-schmidt-says-he-never-saw-romneys-tax

I'm not so sure that rich guy McCain would be able to spot tax return problems for rich guy rMoney. Those guys probably have the same bunch of tax specialists preparing their taxes, probably take the same deductions, probably park their money in the same shelters.

Besides, the big problems AFAIK, are in the questions relating to the years after McCain saw them:
1. Did he have legal residence to vote in MA for the special election?
2. What about his Bain CEO position during those year's he was theoretically only doing the SLO?
3. Did he profit from the 2009 Swiss tax amnesty?
4. What is his real tax rate?

and as long as Romney refuses to release the returns they will continue to be raised. It's NOT going away, imo.

What the is Schmidt up to?

I'd love for Rick Davis to chime in on this.

I am wondering if the author of the piece assumed Schmidt saw them as opposed to Schmidt telling him he saw them. I don't see anything in quotes from Schmidt saying he saw them which leads me to think maybe he didn't tell the author this.

The only quotes from Schmidt in the article don't differ from what he said on O'Donnell's show.

If the author of the article 'inserted' the bit about Schmidt seeing them, hopefully that will be made clear by Schmidt. If Schmidt does nothing about it, well, that speaks volumes as well.

and a slow decision maker when under pressure. Like I've said before: I doubt there's anything illegal to be revealed in Romney's returns. He's hiding his tax statements because he doesn't think the little people have a right to pry into his more important personal business. He may not be a crook, in the strictly legal sense, but he's simply not qualified to serve as a public man in the 21st century.

He's a liar.