Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz didn’t miss an opportunity to make a dog joke at Mitt Romney’s expense Sunday morning. 
 
 “I think the headline of the day is that you just drove 2000 miles from Florida all the way to New Hampshire with four dogs, the cat, the kids and the husband. How are you after all that?,” said "Fox News Sunday" host John Roberts, filling in for Chris Wallace. 
 
 “And lived to tell about it. And all of the dogs were actually in the car! So I proved it can be done,” the Democratic National Committee chairwoman said, laughing. 
 
 The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, of course, has been hounded by Democrats and dog lovers for driving down the highway with the family dog, Seamus, in a carrier strapped to the roof of the car in the 1980s. 
 
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 The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol gave a stark warning to the Romney campaign Sunday, saying the presumed Republican presidential nominee will not be able to beat President Barack Obama if voters don't believe he has a clear plan to turn around the economy. 
 
 “President Obama had three disappointing months, but he's holding his own. And if I were in the Romney campaign, that would worry me,” Kristol said on “Fox News Sunday.” 
 
 Kristol cited numbers from a recent Fox News poll, which showed that just 41 percent of voters think the president has a clear plan for improving the economy. 
 
 “Not great for an incumbent president -- the economy is slow and you’re only at 41-53,” he said. But the numbers were even worse for Romney, Kristol pointed out. 
 
 “Do you think his challenger, Gov. Romney, has a clear plan for improving the economy or not? Yes 27, no 55. I don't think you can beat an incumbent president even if the economy’s slow if 27 percent of the voters think you as the challenger don't have a clear plan for improving the economy,” he said. 
 
 Read more about: Barack Obama, Economy, Mitt Romney, Bill Kristol 

 Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said on Sunday that a presidential candidate with a Swiss bank account isn't someone who's concerned about building American bridges and jobs. 
 
 “President Obama isn't running against the Almighty, he's running against the alternative. The alternative in this case is Mitt Romney, who had the 47th worst job creation rate as governor, and also has a penchant - a talent - for offshoring American jobs, sending them overseas and also maintaining offshore bank accounts in Bermuda, Swiss bank accounts,” he said on ABC's "This Week." 
 
 The chairman of the Democratic Governors Association continued, “I’ve never known of a Swiss bank account to build an American bridge, a Swiss bank account to create American jobs, or Swiss bank accounts to rebuild the levies to protect the people of New Orleans. That's not an economic strategy for moving our country forward.” 
 
 O’Malley maintained that while President Barack Obama is concerned about investing in the country’s education, infrastructure and innovation, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has demonstrated that his first priority is to protect the assets of the wealthiest Americans. 
 
 “He wants to make it even easier for very wealthy people to avoid paying taxes, to offshore American jobs, and to maintain their Swiss bank accounts while our roads and bridges and levies crumble,” O'Malley added. 
 
 Read more about: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Martin O'Malley, Swiss Bank Account, Democratic Governors Associations 

 Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs said Sunday that Americans simply don't know enough about Mitt Romney's finances to determine if he's doing anything illegal. 
 
 "We don't know. Nobody knows," the former White House press secretary said on CNN's "State of the Union" when asked if the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was skirting tax law. 
 
 "The one thing he can do, Candy, to clear up whether or not he's done anything illegally, whether he's shielding his income from taxes in Bermuda or Switzerland, is to do what ever other presidential candidate is done and that's to release a series of years of their own tax returns," Gibbs told host Candy Crowley. 
 
 "The best way to see if Mitt Romney is complying with America tax law is to have him release more of his tax returns," Gibbs said. 
 
 Romney has released his 2010 tax return and an estimate of his 2011 taxes — but has balked at releasing other years. 
 
 "I pick a bank because there's an ATM near my home," Gibbs said. "Romney had a bank account in Switzerland." 
 
 "Nobody knows why he has a corporation in Bermuda," said Gibbs. "Why he failed to disclosure that on seven different financial disclosures. Why he transferred it to somebody else's purview the day before he became governor of Massachusetts. 
 
 "This is a guy whose slogan is 'Believe in America' and it should be 'business in Bermuda,'" Gibbs said. 
 
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 Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, appearing on “Fox News Sunday” after Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz tried to put a positive spin on Friday’s disappointing jobs numbers, said the congresswoman must be “on Mars.” 
 
 “I don't know if she is on vacation in New Hampshire or on Mars. I can’t figure it out, but the fact of the matter is, people are not better off today than they were three or four years ago, and the statistics bear it out,” Preibus said. “The fact of the matter is, is that there are almost half a million more people unemployed today than four years ago and if Debbie and President Obama were good on their promises on the stimulus -- remember, they said if we passed the trillion dollar stimulus we’d have 5.5 percent unemployment today -- what that means, if they kept promises, there would be eight-and-half million more people employed today than four years ago.” 
 
 Priebus went on to accuse Democrats of “living in fantasy land” as he made a pitch for Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican presidential nominee. 
 
 “This president can't fulfill a promise. They’re living in fantasy land, and you know what? We're going put this dream to an end of theirs in November and save America, fire Barack Obama and hire Mitt Romney," Priebus said. "That's the best stimulus plan for this country right now.” 
 
 Read more about: Barack Obama, Democrats, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Mitt Romney, Reince Priebus 

 Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday slammed President Barack Obama's leadership on the crisis in Syria, asking how many more Syrians had die before the administration is spurred to intervene. 
 
 "How many more have to die before we take action?" McCain said on CBS's "Face the Nation." 
 
 "It's shameful the total lack of leadership that the United States has displayed for the last 14 months," he said. 
 
 "We need to show, first, leadership. The president of the United States should be speaking out for the people of Syria," McCain said. 
 
 Syria's president Bashar al-Assad — facing massive demonstrations against his regime — has ordered a crackdown that has reportedly led to thousands of deaths. The Obama administration has called on Assad to leave power, but resisted calls to arm the opposition or intervene militarily. 
 
 McCain called for the U.S. to reverse the policy against arming the Syrian rebels. 
 
 "It's not a fair fight. Russian arms are pouring in, Iranians are on the ground," McCain said. "We need to establish a sanctuary so that they can organize." 
 
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 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday he doesn't regret voting to confirm John Roberts as chief justice. 
 
 "No, I'm not," the Kentucky Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union," when asked if he was sorry for voting to confirm the Supreme Court justice during his hearings in 2005. 
 
 Roberts was the only conservative justice to join the court's liberal wing to uphold the individual mandate at the heart of President Barack Obama's signature health care law. 
 
 "I was extremely disappointed," McConnell added. "The chief justice, however, did make it clear that the mandate was a tax." 
 
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 Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Sunday demanded that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney release more than one year of tax records, citing “secretive investments” and a “Swiss bank account.” 
 
 "I’d really like to see Mitt Romney release more than one year of tax records because there’s been disturbing reports recently that he’s got a ... secretive Bermuda corporation that no one knows anything about, investment in the Caymans ... he’s got a Swiss bank account,” the Democratic National Committee chairwoman said on “Fox News Sunday.” 
 
 “Americans need to ask themselves: why does an American businessman need a Swiss bank account and secretive investments like that?” the Florida congresswoman said. 
 
 Democrats have pummeled the former Massachusetts governor for his offshore investments and called on him to release his tax returns. Last week, for example, Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod called Romney “the most secretive candidate that we’ve seen, frankly, since Richard Nixon.” 
 
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– Salivating Democrats jumped all over Mitt Romney's foreign finances today, painting the candidate as an out-of-touch rich guy stuffing his cash in offshore mattresses—and in the case of Robert Gibbs, suggesting that Romney may have crossed legal boundaries. "We don't know" if Romney has acted illegally, Gibbs said. "The best way to see if Mitt Romney is complying with America tax law is to have him release more of his tax returns." Quipped Gibbs: "This is a guy whose slogan is 'Believe in America' and it should be 'Business in Bermuda.'" Elsewhere on your Sunday dial, as per Politico: Debbie Wasserman Schultz piles on: “Americans need to ask themselves: Why does an American businessman need a Swiss bank account and secretive investments like that?” And Martin O'Malley: “He wants to make it even easier for very wealthy people to avoid paying taxes, to offshore American jobs, and to maintain their Swiss bank accounts while our roads and bridges and levies crumble." John McCain on Syria: "How many more have to die before we take action? We need to show, first, leadership. The president of the United States should be speaking out for the people of Syria," McCain said, adding that, "Russian arms are pouring in, Iranians are on the ground. We need to establish a sanctuary so that they can organize." Mitch McConnell on if he's sorry he voted for John Roberts: "No, I'm not. I was extremely disappointed (by the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare). The chief justice, however, did make it clear that the mandate was a tax." Bill Kristol on Romney: “President Obama had three disappointing months, but he's holding his own. And if I were in the Romney campaign, that would worry me." Wasserman Schultz on Florida-New Hampshire roadtrip with kids, husband, four dogs, and cat: “And all of the dogs were actually in the car! So I proved it can be done.” Reince Priebus on aforementioned roadtrip and job numbers: “I don't know if she is on vacation in New Hampshire or on Mars. The fact of the matter is people are not better off today than they were three or four years ago, and the statistics bear it out."