Michele Bachmann runs from her own mistatements

At CPAC on March 16th, Michele Bachmann made the following statement:

"A new book is out talking about the perks and the excess of the $1.4-billion-a-year presidency that we're paying for. And this is a lifestyle that is one of excess. Now we find out that there are five chefs on Air Force One. There are two projectionists who operate the White House movie theater. They regularly sleep at the White House in order to be readily available in case the first family wants a really, really late show. And I don't mean to be petty here, but can't they just push the play button? We are also the ones who are paying for someone to walk the president's dog, paying for someone to walk the president's dog? Now, why are we doing that when we can't even get a disabled veteran into the White House for a White House tour? That isn't caring!"

As usual, Ms. Bachmann is wrong on every count. And when CNN's Dana Bash asks her about her assertions - Ms. Bachmann can't seem to walk away fast enough. And strangely, she diverts to the Benghazi issue when Bachmann herself brought up these "White House cost" ideas.

Over at the Washington Post, the fact checkers have found Ms. Bachmann wrong on every count, giving her 4 "Pinocchios."

According to the Washington Post, former White House aide Bradley H. Patterson Jr. attempted to figure out the tab for the White House for a book, “To Serve the President,” published in 2010 by the Brookings Institution.

Patterson estimated that the cost of running the White House for fiscal year 2008 — when George W. Bush was president — was nearly $1.6 billion. About half — more than $800 million — related to the Secret Service budget. An additional $271 million was spent on the president’s helicopter squadron.

If Bush is a $1.6 billion man, I guess that means that President Obama is saving the country money at $1.4 billion?