Harry Reid Should Be Condemned, Not Lauded

Harry Reid continues to double, triple and quadruple down on the allegation he made last week that some unidentified person had called him up out of the blue and told him that Mitt Romney had not paid any taxes for the past ten years. While the White House is distancing itself from Reid’s comments, no doubt while cheering him on behind the scenes, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is backing Reid up even though there’s no possible way she could know if what he’s saying is true. Republicans are understandable upset about the whole thing, and with few exceptions, there are not many people on the left who seem to be the least bit bothered by what Reid is doing.  Meanwhile, Reid got a “Pants on Fire” rating from Politifact:

Reid has said Romney paid no taxes for 10 years. It was no slip of the tongue. He repeated the claim on at least two more occasions, at one point saying that “the word is out” when in fact it was only Reid who put that “word” out.
Reid has produced no evidence to back up his claim other than attribution to a shadowy anonymous source. Romney has denied the claim, and tax experts back him up, saying that the nature of Romney’s investments in Bain make it highly unlikely he would have been able to avoid paying taxes altogether — especially for 10 years.
Reid has made an extreme claim with nothing solid to back it up. Pants on Fire!

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