msnbc’s Lawrence O’Donnell has been waiting almost 20 years for an apology from Newt Gingrich for his false political predictions, but it doesn’t look like he’ll get one.
O’Donnell dug old skeletons out of the former House speaker’s closet while the two appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press. He confronted Gingrich on his comments made back in 1993, when the speaker claimed that tax increases would cost jobs and launch the U.S. into a recession–talking points O’Donnell says Republicans are recycling for the fiscal cliff debate.
“Who said this? ‘The tax increase will kill jobs and lead to a recession, and the recession will force people out of work and onto unemployment, and actually increase the deficit.’ That’s Newt Gingrich, in 1993, on the Clinton tax increase,” O’Donnell said.
He followed up, “Those of us who were working on the other side of that tax increase, Newt, have been waiting for your apology for 20 years for being completely wrong about that.”









