Romney Tells Harry Reid 'It's Time to Put Up or Shut Up' About His Alleged 10 Years of Unpaid Taxes: VIDEO

Anderson Cooper looks at Harry Reid's allegations that Mitt Romney has ten years of unpaid taxes, and Romney's response on Sean Hannity's radio show yesterday.

Said Romney:

"Well, it's time for Harry to put up or shut up. Harry's going to have to describe who it is he spoke with because of course, that's totally and completely wrong," Romney told Hannity in a radio interview. "It's untrue, dishonest, and inaccurate. It's wrong. So I'm looking forward to have Harry reveal his sources and we'll probably find out it's the White House."

Unfortunately, the only way that Romney can disprove Reid is by releasing his tax returns. which he has thus far refused to do.

Listen, AFTER THE JUMP...

Obama Releases Searing New Clip, Returning to Romney's Tax Returns: VIDEO

The Obama campaign has put out a new video reminding folks that Mitt Romney is still hiding his tax returns.

Watch the new clip, AFTER THE JUMP...

Meanwhile, in a new interview, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that a Bain investor told him that Romney "didn't pay any taxes for 10 years.":

"Harry, he didn't pay any taxes for 10 years," Reid recounted the person as saying.

"He didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain," said Reid. "But obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

"You guys have said his wealth is $250 million," Reid went on. "Not a chance in the world. It's a lot more than that. I mean, you do pretty well if you don't pay taxes for 10 years when you're making millions and millions of dollars."

Andrew Sullivan notes that the claim is most likely BS, but politically-savvy BS, pointing to analysis from finance expert Don Primack:

[Reid's rumor] sounds like something out of a junior-high cafeteria, but then again there’s also an easy way for Romney to knock it down. Which again raises the question: What can possibly be in the returns to make them so dicey to release?

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Lawmakers Rip Ralph Lauren 'Made in China' U.S. Olympic Uniforms; Harry Reid Wants Them Burned: VIDEO

Democratic and Republican lawmakers are equally outraged over Ralph Lauren's Olympic uniforms which are entirely made in China. The AP:

"I am so upset. I think the Olympic committee should be ashamed of themselves. I think they should be embarrassed. I think they should take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference on taxes.

"If they have to wear nothing but a singlet that says USA on it, painted by hand, then that's what they should wear," he said, referring to an athletic jersey.

The U.S. Olympic Committee defended its choice:

"Unlike most Olympic teams around the world, the U.S. Olympic Team is privately funded and we're grateful for the support of our sponsors," USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said in a statement. "We're proud of our partnership with Ralph Lauren, an iconic American company, and excited to watch America's finest athletes compete at the upcoming Games in London."

Watch lawmakers sound off, AFTER THE JUMP...

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Harry Reid Seeks to End GOP Obstruction of 17 Judicial Nominees Including Gay Candidate Michael Fitzgerald

People for the American Way reports that Senator Harry Reid is seeking votes on judicial nominees stalled by Republican obstruction:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced today that he will file petitions to end Republican filibusters of 17 federal district court nominees. The extraordinary move highlights Senate Republicans’ unprecedented obstruction of judicial nominees. During the entire 16 years that Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were in office, there were only two filibusters of district court nominations. If Senate Republicans don’t relent on these 17 nominees, the cloture process could tie up the Senate through early April, with each nominee taking 30 hours of floor time under Senate rules.

Among them is gay nominee Michael W. Fitzgerald (pictured).

Chris Geidner at MetroWeekly writes:

Fitzgerald, who was nominated by President Obama in July 2011 for a judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, had a hearing in October 2011 and was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee to the full Senate without opposition on Nov. 3, 2011...According to the list posted by Democrats today, Fitzgerald would be the third of the 17 nominees to be considered."

Said Reid:  "I hope that we can move through these. I hope that people aren't going to be doing more dilatory tactics. If cloture is invoked, people have a right, under our rules, to hold up the next judge in line for 30 hours. That will show what this is all about: It will show it's an effort to embarrass the president and not take into consideration 116 million people [living in districts with declared] who don't have the ability to have their cases tried in an orderly manner."

News: Modern Family, Wikileaks, X-Rays, Clay Aiken

Linda Evans puts her Beverly Hills home up for sale and it looks nothing like the Carrington mansion.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet make the cover of TV Guide.

Julian Assange on the sexual assault charges against him: "[I am] clearly the victim of a smear campaign. There are intercepted SMS messages between the women and each other and their friends that I am told represent a set-up."

Google Labs wants to teach you a thing or two about humany anatomy.

A peak into who is watching Sarah Palin's new TV show: "As for gender, just shy of 70 percent of Facebook "likers" are female, and tend to be from the South and Midwest, with Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago boasting the highest numbers."

RIP male model Charles Devoe.

British politician sent text messages to rival saying that all gay men in Bristol, England should be set on fire.

Neil Patrick Harris in an online spat with a soap opera actor.

Clay Aiken's new boyfriend enjoys hanging out in his underwear.

Ratings for Larry King's final CNN broadcast were up 100% from the previous night.

X-Ray sees through molten metal: "A new high-speed X-ray video camera, now the fastest in the world, can see through molten metal and watch weld-weakening flaws form in real-time. The $670,000 device successfully captured X-ray footage on Nov. 23 at 5,000 frames-per-second (fps), or five times faster than previous X-ray cameras (and 83 times faster than a consumer camcorder)."

Harry Reid sends Lady Gaga a tweet after today's Senate repeal of DADT.

At this rate, we'll never get to see the Spider-Man musical.

Michele Bachmann, who had reportedly wanted a position with the Ways and Means Committee instead gets a spot on the House Intelligence Committee.