Disclosure -- Full Disclosure

In the latest round of nonsense that seems to occupy the senate, various Democrats are proposing legislation that would require candidates to disclose ten years of tax returns. Obviously, the target here is Mitt Romney and the nonsense charges about his "failure" to release all of his old tax returns.

I think that it is time to call the bluff of the Democrats. I suggest that Republicans pass a measure in the House that requires all candidates for federal office to disclose their medical records, their college and graduate school transcripts and their last ten years of tax returns. Since president Obama has refused for years to release his college records, his law school records and his medical records, let's put front and center the secretive nature of the Obama campaign. As that loudmouth Debbie Wasserman Schultz would put it, Obama is running the most secretive presidential campaign in history.

There is a point to all of this. Rumor has it that Obama did not do well in college and that he gained admittance to Harvard Law School on the basis of affirmative action. His persona as the "smartest man in the room" would be severely damaged if we were to learn that he was just a C student in college. Also, there has been persistent talk that Obama was treated for serious depression when he lost his first try for the state legislature in Illinois about 14 years ago. Is Obama really sufficiently balanced to keep his head in a world crisis? The American people deserve to know the answer to this.

Oh, and by the way, if Obama would disclose his secrets, then Romney ought to disclose his tax returns (but not until then.)