The American College of Surgeons’s rebuke of President Obama’s misrepresentations concerning surgeons’ practices is remarkable.

It’s yet another example of a pattern of falsehoods and casual disregard for the facts concerning health-care reform – coming not from some low-level flack or supporter of the administration, but from the president himself. Perhaps President Obama should self-report himself to Linda Douglass.

The White House press corps really needs to ask Robert Gibbs how the president can expect to maintain any credibility on the issue when he recklessly distorts health-care facts, underestimates the projected costs by a mere $1,000,000,000,000, falsely claims that certain organizations have endorsed the bill, has not even read the legislation and urged congress to ram the 1000+ page bill through with no deliberation and before anybody even had a chance to read it.

Robert Gibbs’s briefing today should be very interesting.