Ahhh, the 3 favorite words of St. Ronnie (the Great) come back to haunt our friends on the other side ...
Yes, Mittens, we TRUST that everything’s in order with your taxes, but we just need to verify it. I’m sure it’s just an oversight that you actually haven’t given us your full 2010 return. You probably just forgot to hand over that extra little form about all those Swiss bank accounts and other foreign investments you've got. So yeah, we can trust that you're going to be every bit as transparent as your father was, but ... we've got to actually see the goods.
By the way, Trust but Verify needs to be our new catchphrase for absolutely everything we think should be disclosed to We the People. So we can trust that fracking is the absolute bestest, safest thing in the world, but we need to verify that every chemical and every procedure used is actually safe. We can trust that those "harmless" nuclear power plant emissions won't cause us to glow in the dark, but, you know, we've gotta verify it.
Your local super-polluter doesn't think you should know what's in that toxic brew they're spewing out? Trust but Verify. Think that coal mine might not actually be up to OSHA standards? Trust but Verify. Concerned about billionaires trying to steal elections? Trust but Verify. We need to know which billionaires are giving how much and to whom. And we need to know it now.
And by verify, we don't mean checking with the local Quacks 'r Us (Official Scientists of the GOP). We mean using rigorous science done by qualified experts that adheres to the highest professional standards.
And those senators who just voted against the Disclose Act - why, looks to me like they're just not all that into Reagan anymore.
So let's "win one for the gipper" and throw the vaunted St. Ronnie's words back out into the public square. Should be fun!