Pressure Builds on Romney to Release His Taxes

++Michael Steele says that Romney needs a Moses moment, "Let my taxes go". 


++Erin Burnett of CNN warned Romney that he has to release more taxes.


++Rick Perry called on Romney to release his taxes and be as transparent as he can be and then he called on President Obama to release his college transcripts.


++Slate's Money and business blog printed an analysis that people should emphasize the 2009 release because that was the year the IRS had an amnesty for the offshore accounts and Romney would have to avail himself of this. It also appears to be the year that Romney's trustee closed his Swiss account because it might look bad politically.


++The New Republic has a piece by Tim Noah called "Mitt Romney: Crybaby Capitalist". 


++The National Review called on Romney to release his tax returns.


++Democrats speculate Romney didn't pay any taxes on the missing years while still others think it will show he cheated the Mormon Church out of his tithes. 


++A woman called the Stephanie Miller show to say that she was at the governor's mansion in Massachusetts when Romney took the custom-made drapes down after his term of office was up.


++If you think the Bain-tax release controversy is something, what until we return to Romney erasing all the hard drives for his whole term as governor. That would mean almost a whole lifetime of records, with his financials, wiped out. Truly a Nowhere Man.


++Romney tried to piggyback on the Sununu remarks about Obama being alien to the American economy by commenting to a Pennsylvania audience that Obama had foreign ideas about the economy and he happily distorted what Obama said about small business in Virginia as some criticism of small business. This stuff might help in your reception with a small audience but it bombs with the larger audience once you are called out on it. The Detroit News wrote a blistering editorial on Romney's misquoting Obama and backed Obama's view that even the most successful don't get ahead by their lonesome.


++You know you have problems when surrogates have to go out and clean up for other surrogates. Tim Pawlenty had to appear on television to correct the impression left by John Sununu.


++A Granite state poll has Obama ahead by 49-45 in New Hampshire , a slight erosion of support from the past poll.