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Fo CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl appeared on Monday's Morning Joe on MSNBC and surprisingly claimed that the victorious nationalization of health care made her think of Barack Obama as more....Reaganesque. He's not Jimmy Carter any more, he's Reagan:

You brought up Ronald Reagan, and I do see a lot of similarities with this president. In the polling, you see that some of his issues aren't so popular, but he remains fundamentally inspirational. People think that he's doing an honest job, those kinds of fundamentals. And one final thing is luck. Here's how the president was lucky on this one. That insurance company, the few that raised those rates. I think health care was really dead, until those rates started to skyrocket above 30 percent. And that energized the president, the White House, the Democrats, and brought this thing back to life. So luck is another thing. Rreagan#ixzz0j7IEnlme

Lesley Stahl Says House Victory Makes Obama Look Like...Reagan?
By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive) Mon, 03/22/2010 - 08:17 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/03/22/lesley-stahl-says-house-victory-makes-obama-look-reagan

What kind of correspondents do they have at 60 Minutes? The kind who can't tell that the biggest tax increase in history is a tax increase at all. The kind who complain that even if it is a tax increase, Americans should be willing to pay it because ObamaCare is "really important."

Exhibit A: Lesley Stahl. On Morning Joe today, Stahl--her 40 years or so as a reporter notwithstanding--said she "can't tell" if ObamaCare raises taxes and that her "head is hurting" from trying to figure it out. But so what if it does? Stahl had a sudden bout of nostalgia for the good old days when people didn't mind paying "a little more" for "something really important in return."

LESLEY STAHL: You know, I'm listening to the question about taxes and I wonder what happened to the idea that if you want a new service, you do pay taxes?

I'm not saying that there is or isn't a tax increase in this: I actually can't tell. My head is hurting from listening to one side, then the other side on this.

I'm just wondering if the country has moved so far away from this sense that you pay for what you get, and if we can ever go back to a time where people will say I don't mind paying a little bit more if I'm going to get something really important in return? Or is that over forever?

Stahl: I Can't Tell If ObamaCare Raises Taxes, But Worth It For Something 'Really Important'
By Mark Finkelstein (Bio | Archive) Mon, 03/22/2010 - 08:20 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/03/22/stahl-i-cant-tell-if-obamacare-raises-taxes-worth-it-something-rea