Click the image below to see an encounter between Rep. Henry Waxman and Newt Gingrich in which Waxman exposes the lies the GOP has been spreading regarding the costs to taxpayers for the proposed Cap and Trade legislation working its way through Congress.
First, Newt Gingrich reads the official GOP talking point memo, which claims that Cap and Trade legislation, if enacted, will cost a family of four thousands of dollars.
After Newt finishes, Waxman repeats Newt's cost analysis figures and asks him simply, "Is that your position?"
Newt knows he's been lying through his teeth and demonstrates that his slippery sobriquet is well deserved by sidestepping Waxman's question. Instead of the simple yes or no response required by Waxman's query, Newt slithers, "Um...well the...those are the numbers I've seen."
It is worth noting that the article containing the figures Newt has cited is in no way objective. It comes from The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine founded by William Kristol.
Rep. Waxman then sets the record straight.
Stating that the GOP's numbers "are simply not true," he delivers the coup de grâce to Newt when he reads from and introduces into the record two letters written by MIT professor, Dr. John Riley, the author of the study the GOP keeps citing in their attack on the legislation - letters Riley had sent to GOP Minority Leader Boehner. In the letters, Riley tells Boehner that "Republicans are mischaracterizing his work" and that "The Republican approach to estimating Cap and Trade is just wrong."
Finally, there is the "you just can't make this stuff up" irony in the fact that that folks at The Weekly Standard decided to title their totally discredited article Fuzzy Math.
These folks have absolutely no shame.
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