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Of course, any real reporter or politician should have enough sense to either check this out before saying or not report it. The trap snaps shut when Romney releases his taxes showing he DID pay a significant tax rate. Reed looks like a liar or an idiot, or both, and the MSM looks even more stupidly partisan than usual.

This thing looks to me like a set up. Hairy Reams is the idiot to fall for it. How easy would it be for a Romney operative to 'say' he is a Bain employee, (hey, Romney could use a real Bain employee here) and then drop the hint.

That is a possibility. However, I'm not sure publicly embarrassing Harry ("The Mafia Bag Man") Reid is necessarily worth the temporary adverse publicity Romney would incur over not releasing tax returns he's under no obligation to release.

Maybe Harry got a call, but he probably didn't, and is just making all this crap up.

Imagine you know somebody who makes upward of $20 MM per year, and pays zero federal taxes, even though he has to owe at least something. Year after year...he makes millions and stiffs the taxman every April 15...for a decade or more.

If you actually have actionable information regarding this situation, are you going to call Harry Reid about it? Or are you going to call the IRS, report the scofflaw, and become eligible to share in whatever the IRS manages to collect, which in Romney's case, could total possibly tens of millions of dollars?

It's the proverbial "no-brainer": If you have the goods on Romney for tax evasion, you're not calling a sniveling bag man like Harry Reid. He can't do anything for you. No...you're calling the IRS. Period. End of story.

Like I say...it's surely possible that somebody in the Romney camp has shot Bag Man Harry a line o' crap and he's swallowed it. But I think it's just as likely Harry making all this crap up, not realizing that no rational would-be informant in this situation would be calling him at all.