Reid attacks Romney on taxes, hides his own

When it comes to consistency, it's healthy not to get your hopes up too high when it comes to Congress.

The example du jour comes with Mitt Romney's tax disclosure.

The top two Democrats in Congress, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid, have become the attack dogs on this issue. Reid went so far as to say that if Romney doesn't release his tax returns then he'd be unfit to be a dogcatcher.

Then the Stephens Washington Bureau reported that Sen. Reid doubled down on his rhetoric, saying that he had a "source" who tells him that the reason Romney won't release his tax returns is because he didn't pay any taxes.

You can argue all day about the appropriateness of leveling such a charge with nothing to back it up other than rumor. But that distracts from a more important question regarding Sen. Reid.

Here's what makes Reid so disgusting on this:

Reid himself doesn't release his own tax records. Yet, he says Romney can't be dogcatcher?

Seeing all of Reid's actual tax returns would be very instructive, especially for those who have wondered how he went from pauper lawyer to multimillionaire on a government salary. It might also give us more of a connection to his campaign donations and, perhaps, a better idea of why he backs crazy ideas with the communist Chinese.

But the hypocrisy of Congress knows no bounds. This report from McClatchy lays bare that hypocrisy of Reid for all to see. Dogcatcher, indeed.

PS -- This just in from Politico: "A top adviser to Mitt Romney on Thursday compared Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s unproven allegations that the GOP presidential nominee paid no taxes for a decade to Joseph McCarthy’s Communist witch hunts in the 1950s."

PPS -- This prediction is like taking candy from a baby (which I would never do, BTW), but I predict that the primary apologist for Sen. Reid in Nevada, the Las Vegas Sun, will write an editorial very soon telling us all how it really isn't like McCarthy. I suspect one of their columnists who recently tweeted how much he "liked" Sen. Reid, will do the same.

PPPS -- You might take issue with the popular characterization that Sen. Reid entered public service with little money and will exit a multimillionaire. As a friend of mine argues: "He was quite wealthy when he gave up his law practice, having made much money from winning product liability cases. His home on Lacy Lane was not a shack." This is a worthy side argument that goes right to what I'm trying to get at. If Sen. Reid from his first year in public service had the integrity to hold himself to the same standard he demands of Mitt Romney, there would no question about how he earned his money. But he hasn't. Doesn't that raise even the smallest of questions as to why? What is Sen. Reid hiding?

PPPPS -- What I have said about Reid's hypocrisy and the questions it raises goes double for Pelosi.