Another Milepost On The Road To Oblivion

Newt Gingrich's job is apparently to go on national television and lie to America.
From the April 6 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

GINGRICH: But my general experience is that, you know, you don't have people walk up to you in an airplane and start attacking you very often, or you're in really deep trouble. I think what [Sen.] Harry [Reid] ought to do is get in a car and drive around Nevada, where people are overwhelmingly opposed to hiring 16,000 IRS agents as health police.

From the April 6 edition of NBC's Today:

GINGRICH: First of all, this is a really bad bill. The more we learn about it, the worse it is. If you say to the average American, do you really want to have 16,000 more IRS agents as a brand-new health police? They're going to say no.

Only as I've pointed out before, the "16,000 plus new IRS agents to enforce insurance compliance" is a complete falsehood created by...the GOP.

A March 29 PolitiFact.org article stated that the source of the 16,000-plus figure was a March 18 report by the Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee. According to PolitiFact, the GOP determined the figure by using a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis that concluded the IRS "'would probably' need to spend 'between $5 billion and $10 billion over 10 years'" for "implementing the eligibility determination, documentation, and verification processes for premium and cost-sharing credits" in the health care bill. But PolitiFact noted that "even as it offered the 16,500 figure, the Ways and Means Republicans' report offered caveats as well."

So, the Republicans simply lied about this, and Newt Gingrich goes around selling that lie.  It really is that simple.  What's even more curious is our "liberal media" allows Gingrich to continue to do this and he remains unchallenged when he says it.

Al Gore invented the Internet.

Obama is a Kenyan Muslim.

16,000 plus IRS agents will be needed to police health insurance compliance.