Romney Tape Leaves Senate GOP Leaders Speechless

Senate Republican leaders fled their weekly press conference after delivering prepared remarks Wednesday without taking a single question from reporters eagerly seeking their thoughts on their presidential nominee’s newly unearthed remarks dismissing nearly half of American voters.

Although some of the leadership members addressed journalists in separate huddles as they walked away, the unusual display is symptomatic of the party’s nervousness over Romney’s comments from a private fundraiser deriding the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income taxes.

And good ole Harry Reid was there:

Before the GOP press conference, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid taunted them over their candidate’s troubles, telling reporters, “We have a long line of people who are running from Romney as if the Olympics are still on,