Taunting Little Lord Mitt
by digby
They aren’t going to let up on this.
Josh Marshall wrote an interesting piece the other day making the case that Mitt is taking all this personally because, like his fellow Masters of the Universe, he just can’t believe anyone would think he is anything less than a stand-up guy and so much so that to even question it, much less demand proof, is beyond insulting.
This too tracks with the MOU’s view of themselves as modern nobility, quite above such inquisition from the polloi. Take, for example, this:
People always want to get more. And, you know, we’re putting out what is required plus more that is not required. And those are the two years that people are going to have. And that’s all that’s necessary for people to understand something about my finances.
Indeed. The people only need to understand “something” about his finances. Once you start giving in to their demands for details there’s just no end to it. You know how they are. Then he shook out his lace cuff, took a deep sniff of his finest snuff and dismissed the room.
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