The Huffington Post, aka the Sideboob Gazette, has another grand scoop from the Democrats. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who doesn’t release her own tax returns, doubles down with Dingy Harry.
“Harry Reid made a statement that is true. Somebody told him. It is a fact,” Pelosi told The Huffington Post in a Sunday interview. “Whether he did or not can easily be disposed of: Mitt Romney can release his tax returns and show whether he paid taxes.”
Both Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus came out swinging against Reid on Sunday over his claims about Romney potentially not paying taxes. Asked to respond to Priebus calling Reid “a dirty liar” over the situation, Pelosi initially responded, “Who?” She went on to say that Priebus doesn’t know what he’s talking about since he wasn’t part of Reid’s conversations.
“Well he doesn’t know that,” Pelosi said. “Harry Reid is a person who is, as we know, A, is a fighter, B, he wouldn’t say this unless it was true that somebody told him that.”
Let’s step through this. Romney says that Reid is flat out wrong about all this. But Reid insists that someone within Bain not only knew all about Mitt Romney’s taxes, but that Romney paid no taxes for a decade. If that was true, wouldn’t the IRS be on this? The Obama regime has has nearly four years to abuse its authority to pick away at everything in Romney’s background. But the best they can do is send out Harry Reid to make stuff up, and Pelosi to back Reid up in making stuff up. Neither Reid nor Pelosi have released their own past tax returns.
Pitiful. Really pitiful.
Even liberal Richard Cohen is disgusted with the Democrat’s gutter nonsense.
i would pay a 100% tax rate for 2013 if i could see a ppv special of pelosi getting waterboarded
Same could be said about Obama and Fast & Furious Nancy. Just disclose the documents and we’ll put the whole thing to rest. Because a couple guys have already told us that the administration knew about guns being given to drug gangs. Either they did or didn’t and showing us the documents will put it to rest.
And the administration running guns and killing American and Mexican citizens seems a lot more important than whether or not Mitt paid any taxes. If he didn’t owe taxes, it was because the law allowed him to have no liability. Not because he did anything wrong. Same can’t be said about F&F. If Holder and/or Obama knew about it in advance, we have a big problem.
Is it true that Nancy Pelosi is an aging botox-addicted drama queen? Some guy told me th…. hey, wait a minute.
Here’s what I think–
Scenario 1
The Democrats long ago had access to Romney’s tax returns, through a friend in government employ. There are three sub-scenarios:
A.) It’s all true (doubt it).
B.) there is something mildly embarrasing or useful, and this entire thing is designed to get that info out there.
C.) It’s a sting, done by one of the non-compromised portions of the government (IG’s, etc) and the Democrats have fallen for it And the only way to get the target take the bait and prove the hands were in the cookie jar would be to plant false records that they would never pass up.
Scenario 2
The Democrats have no idea what is in the returns, but figure it is something mildly embarrasing, and like 1B above, are dropping depth charges in the hope of getting the returns to surface.
Right now I go with Scenario 2, though my guess is a Democrat has actually looked at the returns, but may not have passed on the information, except for a “nothing really there” type message.
And yes, this means I have zero faith in the ability of governmental records to not be politicallly used against those supplying required information. Zero. Nada. Zip. Doesn’t mean it is happening, I just have zero faith. Of course, there was the Joe the Plumber stuff, and the leakage by folks in Congress of Toyota information during the so-called spontaneous acceleration case, so it’s not like it’s unfounded paranoia. Instead, it’s just Democrat Chinatown…
They believe we are all racists, and I believe there is not a law they won’t break if they can get away with it.
I’m guessing Romney is baiting them and the Dems are taking the bait. In a couple months Romney will release them all and laugh at the Dems for wasting months and millions on attack ads for nothing.
What else are the Dems going to run on? The economy? Their tax plan?
Pelosi: Representing the Funny Farm.
In addition to everything above, I think Nancy would find much more inner peace if she just came out and admitted she shot Harvey Milk back in the 70s so as to eliminate a political rival. Of course, that could be wrong–only Nancy knows for sure. It is time for her to face the past so the dead can finally rest.
“Harry Reid made a statement that is true. Somebody told him. It is a fact,”
The only way Pelosi would know this is if she was the one who called Reid. Was Pelosi Reid’s source for for the accusation? She’s certainly a likely candidate now.
– protects her.
Facts are pernicious little things. This is White House hunkering down and ‘circling-the-wagons’ around the anointed one.
Let’s examine what Messr. Reid is talking about.First, it’s an article written by Bloomberg writers on 8/5/2012 and displayed on Bloomberg’s web site and on its financial TV news. Second, it’s tax loop-hole allowed in several European nations, taken advantage of by:Google, Facebook and Cisco Sytems to name a few of the American based companies operating overseas, who take advantage of all tax subsidies offered by various nations as an incentive to do business in their national borders.
This particular operation (which Signori Bruno Tinti – prosecutor and investigator in Turin, Italy has said was perfectly legitimate) refers to an obscure business transcation Bain Capital performed with many legal players in Italy in 1997 to 2003. Note: not one person in Italy’s government nor private sector said Mr. Romney or any of his associates acted or performed inappropriately.
It’s an operation involving intercontinental transfer of funds from Bain Capital’s Milan, Italys office (McKinsey & Co.), owned and managed by Mr. Gianfilippo Cuneo who has an Investment company of his own in Luxembourg, operating under the name of Investitori Associati SpA. Bain Capital’s headquarters were in Boston, MA from where all Bain’s operations emanated and were finalized. Mr. Cuneo in an interview confirmed Investitori Associati SpA (Luxembourg)did pay insignificant income taxes, as allowed by various international agreements.
So, in 1997 McKinsey & Co. purchased from the Italian government (who in 1996 was unsuccessfully auctioning off from their Treasury’s own state holding company “STET SpA”) SEAT Pagine Gialle SpA, a very large telephone directory company. Bain offered, along with: Investitori Associati SpA, CONSOB-Italian stock market watchdog, Bruno Tinti, Elio Landutti- Italian Senator, member of the VALUE PARTY, Banco Comerciali Italiana SpA-One of Italy’s largest banks, and Signori Carlos Alberto Carnevalle-Maffe-professor at Boccani University’s School of management in Milan, Italy, to purchase a 16% share investing, in 1997, years before the “Dot.com” bubble, a small sum of 36 million euros or USD40 million.
Later, in 2000, Bain Capital (after successfully quadrupling SEAT Pagine Gialle SpA’s net worth) increased its ownership to 61.7% by offering to “buy-out” several original investors shares for the sum of 853 million euros or USD953 (estimated) million. Only two original investors retained their shares, both were government connected individuals. All share holders agreed to the transaction and were extremely satisfied:
1)Italy’s stock market watchdog, Consob, and Turin prosecutor Bruno Tinti investigated, according to a person familiar with the matter and news accounts at the time. No charges were brought.
So, This poorly written, meandering hit piece by Bloomberg (Humm! what’s the connection between Harry Reid, AFL-CIO-Trumka and Bloomberg’s empire?) is a “sliced and diced” account of a perfectly legal, successful business deal (one of many, in the “Dot.com” bubble era) involving an Italian government divesting itself of an inefficient, poorly run national directory company to Bain Capital and a consortium of Italian share holders, who profited immensly by their market share values having TRIPLED in a mere 3 years time.
In conclusion, A hit piece designed to tarnish Romneys’ successes, in truth is a series of innuendo”s, suppositions, literary license all of which are NOT borne out by the facts, registered with Italy’s CONSOB. Vote Romney this Nov 6, enough of this lying and chicanery. Amen. God Bless American capitalism and excellence. 10 years of Romney’s tax returns are posted on his web site. Also, Romney has many, many friends in both Italy’s private and public sectors.
The light of truth shall always shine thru. May God Bless American capitalism Chick-fil-A nation and Gabby’s excellence.
I think Romney ought to hold a press conference on the steps of the IRS and demand that they come arrest him for the crime of not paying taxes… And if they won’t (because they know he filed and paid taxes), then tell them to shut up about it…
Nope, Romney should call their bluff. He should immediately file a law suit for libel, and ask the courts for an immediate injunction to stop the BS statements. Settle the case ONLY in exchange for a statement from Obama that he is behind the libelous claims, and that he knew they were lies and encouraged them anyway. If said statement isn’t forthcoming, demand compensation from all and sundry – anyone who repeated the lie. Don’t stop until they are all ruined, and Obama is impeached for the high crime involved, and Dingy and Nan have resigned.
It’s time to stop playing these BS Chicago politics. The longer we let them take us down the path, the closer we get to the overthrow of the republic as we know it.
Bryan – You might want to check this out: http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama’s-college-classmate-the-obama-scandal-is-at-columbia/