Reid: Romney 'couldn't be confirmed as a dog catcher'

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS 

7/12/12 1:29 PM EDT

Add Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to the list of Democrats on the attack over Mitt Romney's timeline at Bain. Speaking to reporters at a news conference on the Hill today, Reid said the former Massachusetts governor "couldn't be confirmed as a dog catcher."
Here's the full text of Reid's comments, via my colleague Scott Wong, which came after Reid was asked about the Globe's Bain story:

I really want to, as you say in the House, revise and extend my remarks I said yesterday. He not only couldn’t be confirmed as a Cabinet secretary, he couldn’t be confirmed as a dog catcher, because a dog catcher — you’re at least going to want to look at his income tax returns. And the long report that we have in The Boston Globe today indicates that, as one of his own employees said, it doesn’t make sense. He said he left Bain to go to the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and stopped any association with Bain. But his SEC filings indicated that he was chief executive officer, sole stockholder, and ran the corporation for at least 3 more years. And that’s why people who say there’s been advertisements where businesses were closed, people laid off — and he says oh I wasn’t there, I left in 1999. As his own operative said, it doesn’t make sense. And it doesn’t.

Emphasis mine. This is a hard hit from Reid, who's criticized Romney before but never in language as strong as this. His comments here, coupled with the Obama campaign's line that Romney either committed a felony or lied to voters, make this new Bain storyline a pretty powerful one.