Those pesky facts

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Three years ago, Newt Gingrich went on television, cozied up to Nancy Pelosi and preached the need to respond to global warming. "We do agree our country must take action to address climate change," Gingrich said from a couch, which was oddly positioned in front of the U.S. Capitol.

What seemed like genuine, bipartisan PR in 2008 now looks like conservative heresy by the current frontrunner in the Republican presidential race.

Gingrich now calls that TV ad the "dumbest single thing" he’s ever done and insists his policy stance on the environment passes all conservative muster.

"If you notice, I never favored cap and trade," he said in a candidate forum in New York City on Dec. 3, 2011.

Really? Never?

We did a little digging and it didn't take long to find that Gingrich has been inconsistent and has at times advocated cap and trade legislation

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Four years ago, he was singing the praises of cap and trade... On Feb. 15, 2007, Gingrich went on the PBS show Frontline and championed cap and trade.


http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ngrich-claims-he-never-favored-cap-and-trade/

 

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Like the individual mandate, cap and trade was a Republican policy proposal before the Democrats adopted it and, like the individual mandate, the Republicans opposed it once the Democrats adopted it.

 

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The we moved on to Gingrich's claim that "the only reason the unemployment rate is going down is because … twice as many people dropped out of the employment pool as the number of jobs were created."

We found that Gingrich erred by using the wrong survey in his numerical comparison.

Using the appropriate survey data, the decline in the unemployment rate stemmed in roughly equal parts from job creation and a shrinking labor force.

As a result, it wasn't accurate to put the blame "only" on people who stopped looking for work.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/dec/07/checking-newt-gingrichs-jabs-about-jobs/