Transparency Czars Reid and Pelosi both in group that recently refused to release their tax returns to McClatchy
Via McClatchy. Can you say hypocrites? I can. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Unfortunately, this is not really all that surprising.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi was emphatic. Mitt Romney's refusal to release more than two years of his personal tax returns, she said, makes him unfit to win confirmation as a member of the president's Cabinet, let alone to hold the high office himself.
Sen. Harry Reid went further: Romney's refusal to make public more of his tax records makes him unfit to be a dogcatcher.
They do not, however, think that standard of transparency should apply to them. The two Democratic leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives are among hundreds of senators and representatives from both parties who refused to release their tax records.
Just 17 out of the 535 members of Congress released their most recent tax forms or provided some similar documentation of their tax liabilities in response to requests from McClatchy Newspapers over the last three months.
Why not legislation that would require Congressional candidates to release 10 years worth of tax returns, disclose any domestic/overseas investments, law experience/training, economic experience/training, list all affiliations (terrorist and otherwise) with individuals and organizations, name of their drug dealer, all drugs consumed, list all their children (with current wife and other), list all sex partners, summary of annual alcohol consumption and current HIV status ?
Dan, of course Nancy and Harry aren’t hypocrites, since hypocrisy is “the tribute vice pays to virtue”. They’re Democrats; they have no virtues. At all.
Shaidle recently wrote. “They should just get brutally honest with themselves and with the rest of us and rename themselves the ‘It’s Different When We Do It’ Party.”
h/t Ed Driscoll