Today’s lie:
“The Congressional Budget Office says assumptions about the Medicare trust fund being solvent through 2024 under the Obamacare proposal is unrealistic.”
This whopper came from Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie when he got caught defending Romney-Ryan’s other Medicare lie (see earlier “Pants on Fire” post). Interestingly, his first defense was to tell the truth and admit that the Romney-Ryan plan would start RAISING THE MEDICARE ELIGIBILITY AGE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.
(Full Disclosure: I’m not 100% sure this is a lie, but I can’t find any evidence of the CBO finding he describes ANYWHERE – which leads me to believe he made it up.)