Senator Clinton has consistently said that she will release her tax returns at some point, once she becomes the nominee, perhaps earlier, but not before tax time, and definitely not before a hotly contested primary, but possibly on or around April 15, and I assume before the primary, or even earlier, depending on how busy I am, and if Bill can get all of his receipts together, and that damn phone stops ringing at 3 AM, because I am committed to getting up everyday and working to fully disclose our tax situation to the American people, as far as I know…

Pressed, she (HRC) promises to release them ... at some point.
"I'm a little busy right now," she says. Ben Smith Politico 2/26

“I will release my tax returns,” Clinton said during the debate. “I have consistently said I will do that once I become the nominee, or even earlier.” AP 2/27

But her campaign now says it won't happen until she has the
Democratic presidential nomination in hand, and not before tax filing time comes in mid-April.  AP 2/27

Pressed about the timing of releasing her tax returns, campaign aides were more reticent Wednesday, indicating that Clinton would not release the sensitive financial data during a hotly contested primary, but only at tax filing time. AP 2/27

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is poised to release her tax returns "on or around April 15," Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson said.  ABC News 3/02

Will you release your tax returns before the Pennsylvania primary?
Well, we're going to do it in April, and I would assume that would be before [the primary].  Newsweek 3/9

Uh-huh.  If Vegas were calling this we could safely say that the chances of seeing the Clinton’s tax returns on April 15 would be less than a sure thing.  Even less of a sure thing would be the release of all of the appropriate tax forms before the Pennsylvania primary April 22.  You see, this lifetime of experience cuts both ways Senator Clinton.  You are selling your Zeliglike, globe-trotting, foreign policy triumphs to an electorate that is much more familiar with TravelGate, the Rose Law Firm, cattle futures, Whitewater, and L’affaire Lewinsky than it is your cork screw helicopter landing into Bosnia with Sinbad, Sheryl Crow, and Chelsea.  In fact, your Sinbad diplomacy was so effective the Macedonian borders were opened the day before you arrived.  Well played, Senator Clinton, well played.  I don’t know about the commander in chief threshold, but you certainly pass the karaoke threshold.  But I digress…

It doesn’t take a great leap of imagination to know how this tax return endgame will be played.  April 15 will come and go with Howard Wolfson placing Senator Obama in the cockpit of United Airlines Flight #175 on the morning of September 11 after he kicked his puppy and burned an American flag in the rec room of a VA hospital while praying to Allah.  Senator Clinton will say that she is getting up every morning trying to get these returns complete for the American people, but Senator Obama’s Ken Starr-like attacks has made it increasingly difficult for her to be in the solutions business.  Shame on you Senator Obama.

As the days tick down to the Pennsylvania primary we will hear a great deal about Tony Rezko, and very little about the release of said tax returns.  Of course there will be the misleading disclosure form or two trickled out, and possibly a partial tax return if the sharks are swimming to close to the kids.  Then the proverbial tax return goal posts will be moved to some convenient time after the Pennsylvania voters have said their peace.

Senator Obama would be wise to put the chaser lights around the April 15 D-Day, but, truth be told, my confidence in the Obama media operation has been greatly shaken these past two weeks.  He seems not interested in, or unable to, control the narrative of this campaign.  Not a good sign heading into what could be a brokered convention, and a November date with the Grand Ol’ Swift Boat Party.  The Obama Surrogate Army should have been deployed weeks ago, and yet, an Obama surrogate is spotted as frequently as 43 at FEMA Appreciation Day in New Orleans.

Make no mistake, as currently constituted, Karl Rove would eat this Obama Campaign for breakfast.  To be fair, there is a desperate, farcical, head-shaking element to the Clinton Campaign.  There will be no knee slappers when Rove is working out of sight for the Straight Talk Express.