house for that celebration. we have chris matthews, host of hardball with us. chris, you ve done this a long time, you ve seen the votes. what do you think of republicans going to celebrate before this bill is signed? i think this is a celebration on both sides. i remember the clinton tax increase back in 93 where the republicans were able to kill some democrats in the next election. i think it s like that. i m looking at you know, katy, i m looking at the republicans who didn t vote for this today and they tell you a whole story. you ll be familiar with these names, charles dent from allentown, pennsylvania, promotions city, new jersey. chris smith from new jersey. these are all moderate republicans from very swing districts, and they re careful here not to vote for this. so the safest vote today was any democrat who voted against it, which is all democrats, they re very safe on this vote. nobody is going to blame a