As Marley Zeno told you, a visibly shaken Mitt Romney said this morning that he is going to release his tax return for 2010 and an estimate of his tax for 2011. (On Tuesday, when everyone will be talking about the State of the Union address.) Romney says he won't release the full twelve years' worth that his dad put out "before the internet." ThinkProgress wonders if this means Romney is worried about the increased scrutiny the internet provides.

This half-measure leaves the tax returns an issue that Gingrich and the media can still attack. Thanks to the persistent complaints of Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2008, we have President Obama's tax returns from 2000 through 2010, with 2011 soon to come. Unless Gingrich is hiding something, he's going to put out more of his own tax returns so he can still press the issue. In many ways, Romney putting out two forms could be worse for him; if Gingrich and the left turn this into a birther-esque crusade—remember the howls about the "short-form birth certificate?"—Romney will have to deal with this issue for a long time to come. And Romney's not good at dealing with personal attacks.

At the moment, a Slog poll reveals that Stranger readers believe Mitt Romney's returns will reveal smarmy tax-evading tricks, voter-repulsing sums of money, and huge tithes to the Mormon church, in that order.