Rachel Maddow - HARRY REID SMASH!

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[Heather MC]

1. Wow she even went hard on Politifact, I thought they were generally excepted around these parts

[Merlot]

3. She's done whole segments on politifact, and never misses a chance to dig at them

She doesn't like them for good reason. I don't have a link but you could probably go o her archive and do a search.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

2. Sounds like Harry's taking a page from the Birther/Fox "News" playbook

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Giving the Reds a taste of their own medicine, or stooping to their level? I love hearing all their hypocritical outrage over this, but let's not have anybody else on our side jump on Harry's bandwagon, OK?

[teknomanzer]

4. Enough with the tap dancing and dodgy language - produce the damn returns.

Poor Mitt, the fellow thinks he's playing chess and doesn't realize the game he started was a game of poker. And the good senator from Nevada who was once chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission may be more than a little familiar with how that game is played. You see Harry raised and called Willard's bluff.

Remember the bet is not about whether or not Romney has paid his fair share of taxes. The wager is about whether Mitt has something to hide. Now it is time to lay the cards down by releasing more of his returns. But Romney misunderstands the game he started playing. If your hand is called and you do not lay down your cards you lose the wager. You have folded. You have conceded to the fact the the stakes were too high. Whatever he is hiding must be worse than paying zero taxes for ten years. One has to admit its a reasonable conclusion.

Now Romney thinks that he can somehow change the rules of the game by turning it back onto Senator Ried, but the senator knows how the game is played. You raise the stakes until the bastard folds. I hope Harry continues to "give 'em hell." And I hope people are willing to support Ried and see this thing through to the end.

We need to see those returns. Mitt Romney is running for the highest public office in the land. The key word being "public." We the public have the right to vet our representatives. If Romney cannot accept that then he should not seek the office. I cannot say it more simply than that.

[Proles]

5. I like that Reid isn't backing down. Whether he heard from a Bain insider or not, I like

the result of this.

Romney's insistence that he doesn't release his tax returns essentially proves that he's hiding something at least as bad as what Reid says he's hiding.

If this is how Democrats play the game now, then I have much greater hope for the party.