Who's In Charge Or, Calvinball for Adults

Unless you've been under a rock, you've probably heard there is some controversy over Mitt Romney's "retroactive retirement" from Bain Capital. In multiple SEC filings, some of them signed by Romney, he is described as sole voting shareholder, CEO and managing director of Bain.

If the sole shareholder, CEO and managing director isn't in charge of the company, who is?

Romney seems very personally upset that anybody would ask this simple question, which seems to prevent him from providing the simple answer that "Joe (or whomever) was in charge." (Of course, the follow-on question is "why wasn't Joe (or whomever) signing the paperwork?")

Here's the real problem. Romney's playing Calvinball. He's making up the rules and changing them as he goes along. This is a natural desire - the reason Calvinball is funny is that everybody wants to play it. But life is not Calvinball, and Romney just got caught playing it.