On Monday morning, President Barack Obama ratcheted up his attacks against insurance companies in a last-ditch attempt to get a reluctant public and skittish Democrats behind his health overhaul legislation. [ FULL STORY ]

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Bonus Video: The first couple welcomed guests to the White House on Monday, marking International Women’s Day. Mrs. Obama looked ravishing in a grey draped dress by Lanvin. [ READ MORE ]

Republican Goon-LIARS Respond:

Fox News’ Special Report, chief White House correspondent Major Garrett falsely claimed that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had not found projected savings under the Senate health bill to be “meaningful” in its second decade. In fact, CBO estimated that the bill would reduce the deficit in its second decade. [ READ MORE ]

Meanwhile, conservative media cast Democrats as “suicide bombers” in push for health care reform: Reacting to progress on health care reform legislation, conservative media figures have repeatedly referred to President Obama and Democratic officials as “health care suicide bombers” and characterized their efforts to pass a bill as “a Kamikaze mission” and “political suicide missions.”[ READ MORE ]

Fox’s Garrett distorted CBO findings on long-term savings under Senate health bill

Rush Limbaugh Promises To “Leav[e] The Country” If His Health Care Distortions Come True

Hannity & Dick Morris: “People stopped [health care reform] up to this point and I think they’ve got to now finish the job”

Limbaugh repeatedly refers to “Democrat” Party as “a gulag“

Rush’s new theory: Senate health care bill will lead to “250 million uninsured“

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