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Who has the upper hand as we head into triple jeopardy, the coming budget fights. domenico montanaro is here with this morning's first read. i don't think anybody comes across great here, domenico, but i was struck and maybe this was inevitable, but we had a lot of conservatives coming out, saying this is a terrible deal as we had a majority of the majority voting against it. we asked kelly about john boehner's speakership. the vote is tomorrow for him to be speaker of the 113th congress. it doesn't seem like there's anything emerging. i'm a little baffled, not because i think he should be ous...

fight with lyndon johnson over medicare and the words he used was that it would compel all americans to spend their sunset years telling their children and their children's children how it was when men were free, and that is what it is like. and however, medicare has been sustained and approved, but the public sentiment lay ahead. one thing we have not gotten and what the president has been trying to do today which as you say is to make a clear understanding of what this bill is about. because lincoln said with public sentiment nothing can fail and without it nothing can succeed. so ...

Lizz is traveling all over the country to teach standup, and workshops and if you want to hear more about that go to lizzwinstead.com. and now over to dana bash where the vote has wrapped up on the path to prosperity, and what can you tell us, dana? >> the vote passed overwhelmingly, and we thought it would pass on a partisan line and boy does it. not one single democrat voted for this republican budget, and what a difference a day makes or maybe better to say what a difference trillions of dollars makes, because yesterday the story was one quarter of the republican house caucus defecting to...

>> actually, can i -- >> it takes time. >> yeah, go ahead. >> you know, historically, you can never have a majority voting on the rights of a minority. because it -- it will never pass. if that happened back in the day, we would still have slavery. >> you know, this has been -- this -- some people say this is one of the last frontiers when it comes to civil rights, and you cannot judge a civil rights issue on a popular poll. or on what the majority wants, because it may go against the law. here's -- the people who wanted proposition 8, who were against gay marriage, were concerned, and you bro...

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