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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 can't claim republican fingerprints on his tax increase. >> let's wait a second. we're not living in the alice in wonderland world here, it's literally a tax increase. rates are up. >> what happened yesterday was all the tax rates...

I'm 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 voted against it and joins me now. thanks very much, happy new year to you. why did you vote no? >> ...

>> and, in fact, as we approach the debt ceiling limit and those votes, you've 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. >> that's 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 couldn't take the risk of an economy being as fragile as it was at that time. he's in a much stronger position now. he's been reelected, economy's stronger, republica...

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 isn't 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 house that's led by republicans nominally, but the next fight is really going to be all to their adv...

They'll have to negotiate again, give them a reason, momentum, to solve problems they have clearly been unable to handle over time because it's 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 wasn't 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 actual votes and breakdowns. this was a short-term victory, and a big one for the white house, but go...