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The tax increases that he insisted on, all the republicans in the house and the senate who voted more than once to extend the bush tax cuts for everybody permanently, so the republicans are quite clear. they want the tax cuts extended for everyone. the president insisted on taking them away from some people. that will hurt the economy. he got his tax increase, but he cant claim republican fingerprints on his tax increase. >> lets wait a second. were not living in the alice in wonderland world he...

Im proud of my speaker, speaker knew what needed to be done. he provided the cover for us to do it. he let the conference work its will. you know, leadership is about leading, and i think he led last night. >> today some republicans, tom cole, for instance, were defending john boehner after what many call a fumbled strategy in the latest showdown with the white house, but only 84 republicans joined the speaker, a total of 85, in voting for the deal last night. veteran congressman jack kingston v...

>> and, in fact, as we approach the debt ceiling limit and those votes, youve heard both senator, you know, senator sanders and congressman kingston today, both sides are farther apart than ever before and nobody seems willing to bend going forward. >> thats very worrisome, because remember back in the summer of 2011 the president did finally bend on meeting the republicans on the big spending cuts they wanted because he simply couldnt take the risk of an economy being as fragile as it was at th...

Crisis, doing the minimal to solve problems, kicking the can down the road rather than confronting the real issues here, those things were completely avoided in this round of this debate, which resumes in two months, and then will continue beyond that and create economic uncertainty. that isnt the right way to run this system. >> while the white house is celebrating somewhat in the house republicans were put back on their heels and had to cave in and 171 democrats carried the day last night in h...

Theyll have to negotiate again, give them a reason, momentum, to solve problems they have clearly been unable to handle over time because its not easy to do these things and they have not been able to achieve the deficit piece, time to turn the page. >> chris cillizza, thanks to you for standing in, my alter ego during this holiday break, sort of wasnt a full break, given all the news that was developing. but chris, winners and losers, short term, then i want to go to luke to talk about the actu...

Ended up finally leading the house to vote for last night? >> no, because last night was not a final deal. last night was a debate over how much of the tax increase obama was going to take off the table, and he took it, its bad for the economy and unfortunate he got that. but now thats past us, what do we do now? we have a fight for four years on how to reign in obamas overspending. republicans have three pressure points, the president has none. what happened, all the republicans in the house we...

Good day, happy new year, im andrea mitchell live in washington. president obama arrived in washington today after a victory on the future of tax rates for all americans, but the fiscal cliff has set the stage for still future debt ceiling debacles to come. joining me now for our daily fix in the new year, chris cillizza and our correspondents on the hill, kelly odonnell from the capitol and luke russert right here on the set. thank you all very much. first you, kelly, the late-night deal that a...

The breakdown of the vote. in the house vote last night, only 85 republicans voted for this deal. the speaker, as you pointed out last night, showed some guts in actually voting for it. >> speakers ordinarily dont necessarily vote. sometimes they vote on big bills, but especially with this big vote where he knew cantor and mccarthy were going to vote against it. he made a decision he should be on the yes side of this, for whatever reason, for conversations ive had, look, he wanted to be out in f...

With the debt limit, i think that there is some consensus that the era of allowing the nation to go into default is probably over. i think that republicans know thats not really something they are going to be able to toy with the way they were able to in the summer of 2011, and going forward, theres just going to have to be more consensus or else the american people are not going to stand for watching this happen every couple of months where congress brings it right to the brink and we just dont...

Hour or so ago, lets play a little bit of that on this subject. >> republicans have no trouble when it comes to raising money. i would just say anyone from new york or new jersey who contributes one penny to congressional republicans after this should have their head examined. >> chris cillizza, kelly, and luke, chris, that was pretty interesting comment to luke. >> pete king is not the kind of guy who holds back. we know that about him, but i think hes genuinely sort of angry and upset. mike gr...