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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's decision not to release more of his past tax returns has fueled countless attacks and counterattacks. The former Massachusetts governor has released his 2010 tax return and promises that his 2011 return...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
Tuesday was just another day for The Five, the boisterous discussion panel program on the Fox News Channel, until liberal pundit Bob Beckel sank to a new low by referring to the Republican National Chairman's name -- Reince Preibus -- with a vulgar...
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Franklin Lakes Oakland Suburban News
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney is hiding from us and the malicious mud Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is slinging at Romney, but spattering us. To find the real motives behind these two growing Campaign 2012 controversies, we'll enlist the help of two dead...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
It's become vacuous enough to have Americans demanding something better (nominations accepted, see below) but first, for those who were misguided enough to be enjoying your vacation, Politics Now recaps what the politicians have been turning into...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
But both are using a time-tested tactic in trying to define their opponents' weaknesses while distracting voters from their own, experts say. "Politicians are very careful to not make definitive statements that can be disproven easily. They speak in...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
FoxNews.com I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant. -- Former steelworker Joe Soptic speaking about his wife's 2006 cancer death in a new ad by the Obama-backed political action committee...
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Time-Arts Entertainment
| 10 months ago
I do not know whether Mitt Romney paid federal income taxes, when, or how much, in any year before 2010, for which he publicly released his tax returns. Fact: You probably do not either, unless you are among the small army of spreadsheet-slinging...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
In one of the more loathsome displays of this election season, Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs, appearing on today's Morning Joe , refused to criticize an ad from an Obama-endorsed Super PAC that accuses Mitt Romney of being responsible for a...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
Harry Reid recently sallied forth with a series of attacks on Mitt Romney that had the desired effect...It has produced waves of condemnation because of the unsubstantiated assertions that Romney didn't pay taxes for a decade. Reince Preibus, head of...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
Duncan Black, an economist who blogs under the name Atrios, wrote something provocative the other day: "As I've said many times, what's fascinating about the what's-in-Romney's-tax-returns story is that the man who has been running for president...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
And many American families are still on vacation, spending their free time at the beach and watching the Olympic Games . If Romney were to announce too early, his campaign could lose some of its momentum heading into the Republican National...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
FoxNews.com Mitt Romney called on Harry Reid Tuesday to reveal the source for his claim that the Republican presidential candidate has not paid taxes for 10 years, stepping up pressure as two major fact-check sites ruled Reid had no basis for the "...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney's refusal to disclose his tax affairs is proving to be the gift that keeps on giving to the Obama team...It's not that public opinion polls show he narrowly but persistently trails President Obama , particularly in key swing states. It's...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
They understand that they're taking Reid's bait and that responding to his unsubstantiated claims against Romney to keeps alive the issue of Romney's refusing to release his tax returns. Still, these GOP sources say they feel that if they do not...
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Canadian Free Press
| 10 months ago
Senator Harry Reid called attention to himself last week, accusing Mitt Romney of not having paid taxes for 10 years...Depending on the day of the week, it was one person: As I said before, I was told by an extremely credible source that Romney has...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Not only would Reid not name his source, but experts told a couple of news outlets it was almost impossible that the Republican presidential candidate had paid no taxes. Salon.com talked to tax attorneys and found the claim that Romney paid zero...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
The word's out that he [Romney] hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Aug. 2, 2012 Reid has generated a lot of controversy with his claim that presumptive GOP nominee did not...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
Fla. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi came to the defense of Sen. Harry Reid on Monday over his comments about Mitt Romney's taxes. Reid outraged some Republicans with his remarks last week that he'd been told the GOP presidential candidate...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
When he descended into smarmy innuendo about Mitt Romney 's taxes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was merely executing a tactic that is increasingly central to President Obama 's reelection campaign. High unemployment and trickling job production...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
On Sunday's World News , ABC's senior Washington editor, Rick Klein, found it to be a "wildly unsubstantiated" and "irresponsible" claim for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to accuse Mitt Romney of not paying taxes for 10 years. He also asserted...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
Whenever a name Republican says something stupid, indefensible or arguably either, for the next three days folks will open a conversation by asking me (the only Republican they know) what I think about the latest GOP gaffe...Last week, Senate...
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Truthdig
| 10 months ago
Apoplexy is not the tone politicians generally seek to project. Yet there was GOP chief Reince Priebus on ABC's This Week, calling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a dirty liar for his claim about how little Romney may have paid in taxes. There was...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Opinion Writer Text Size The Washington Post For once, Harry Reid held his tongue. The Senate majority leader had agreed to participate in a conference call Monday afternoon with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about renewable energy, but it was...
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Politico
| 10 months ago
Senate Majority Harry Reid again deflected questions Monday about releasing his tax returns, even as he continued to pound the demand for Mitt Romney to make more of his own public. Instead, Reid pointed to the financial disclosure forms he files as...
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The Washington Times
| 10 months ago
You have to know that times are desperate in the Obama campaign when Sen. Harry Reid is trotted out to contend that Mitt Romney didn't pay taxes for a decade. Never one to let facts get in the way, the Democratic Senate majority leader offered no...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 10 months ago
After creating a political firestorm and being accused of lying, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Monday refused to back down from his challenge to Mitt Romney over the GOP presidential contender's tax returns. Reid raised the stakes last week when he said a...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
We wrote this morning that Senate Majority Harry Reid has picked a fight with former Massaschusetts governor Mitt Romney on the latter's tax returns that the Nevada Democrat will almost certainly win. Just to put a finer point on that, well, point,...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Monday that Reid (D-Nev.) speaks for himself and had spoken on the issue without any guidance from Team Obama. He certainly speaks for himself, Carney said, adding that Obama hasn't expressed an opinion...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
But he has succeeded in keeping the political universe focused on Romney's wealth and finances, not the struggling economy. Washington Harry Reid is being slammed by political watchdogs, Republicans, and some Democrats for making an unsubstantiated...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has supported Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's allegation that Mitt Romney avoided paying taxes for years, giving her imprimatur to a charge that Romney's campaign has dismissed as baseless slander. Share...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Workers' Voice will release an online petition on Monday that union and non-union workers can sign that will support Reid and call on Romney to disclose additional tax records. The super-PAC plans to continue targeting Romney over his tax returns...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
Top Harry Reid aide slams Romney's 'henchmen' Updated Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's chief of staff fired back at Mitt Romney's supporters, calling them "henchmen" and "cowards" for their attacks on the top Democrat. Reid claims he has a "...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) both took to the Sunday morning talk shows to accuse Reid of lying. But despite the GOP criticism, the Romney campaign appeared unable to move past the debate over...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney is calling for "something dramatic" to help the economy recover, but he's not saying what. The Republican presidential contender says he opposes another federal stimulus package and new government programs. He also says that if the...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus went so far as to call Reid a "dirty liar" in an interview on ABC's This Week , and GOP lawmakers including Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said Reid and the...
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Canadian Free Press
| 10 months ago
With 23 million of We the People without jobs at all or using hard-earned advance degrees to flip burgers at McDonald's or Burger King, one would expect our elected leaders to be extra diligent in working to find solutions, right? Instead, we find...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
Radio and Current TV host Bill Press got thoroughly exposed on CNN Sunday as a shill for President Obama. After Press shamelessly uttered the typical liberal line regarding Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) unsubstantiated claims about...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, has rejected an accusation made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., that presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney has not paid any taxes in 10 years. Share This Story Appearing on...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
It's becoming fairly clear that even some of the Obama-loving media think Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) went too far last week with unsubstantiated and unattributed allegations concerning presumptive Republican presidential candidate...
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MarketWatch
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. MarketWatch) Mitt Romney on Sunday said he opposes any new stimulus plans by the U.S. Federal Reserve and Congress, while Democrats continued their call for the presumptive Republican...
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Politico
| 10 months ago
The Senate majority leader's allegations that Mitt Romney had not paid taxes for a decade had people talking on the Sunday morning talk shows about one thing: Romney's income tax returns. Continue Reading Democrats appeared almost gleeful as they...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
I'm not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn't filed a single page of tax returns himself. Complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz-Carlton here down the street, Priebus said. .....And the fact that we're going to spend any time...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
FoxNews.com Republicans on Sunday attacked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for purporting that Mitt Romney has not paid taxes in 10 years, with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus calling the Nevada Democrat a dirty liar. Reid...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney's personal taxes reached new heights Sunday, with Republicans calling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a liar for saying last week that the GOP presidential candidate hadn't paid taxes for a decade. "I am not going to respond to a dirty...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 10 months ago
Despite his efforts to change the political narrative, Mitt Romney continued to face issues of personal tax this weekend. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images After a torrent of poor headlines in recent days, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
The presidential campaigns traded barbs Sunday over Mitt Romney 's refusal to release more tax returns and the candidates' competing economic plans. Romney supporters accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) of lying when he said an unnamed...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
ments Republicans say Harry Reid was lying in statement about Mitt Romney's taxes On Sunday morning news programs GOP leaders said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid was lying in a statement he made claiming Mitt Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
What the suit is about is whether the rest of Ohio should have the same right. And I think it's shameful that Gov. Romney would hide behind our servicemen and women to try and win a lawsuit to deprive other Ohioans of the right to vote." Earlier this...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
The Nevada senator said he was informed by a Bain investor who called his office. Later in the show, President Obama's top political strategist Robert Gibbs, was asked if the president's campaign team had encouraged Reid to make the accusations. ...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
RNC chairman Reince Priebus calls Harry Reid a 'dirty liar' Updated Surrogates for President Obama aren't repudiating Sen. Harry Reid's unsubstantiated charge that Mitt Romney may not have paid taxes for the past decade, while a backer for Romney...
