The majority of the stimulus that would have directly affected anyone was done through middle class tax credits. Supposedly lower taxes was once a part of the Republican's ideology, but I guess as you said partisan obstructionism is more important to their long term electoral success. I haven't read the bill in a while, but there was something like $300 Billion dollars worth of tax benefits in it.
There was a lot of pork in it as well.
Agreed. I still think that what happened after the stimulus was a fluke. The Democrats continued to try and push jobs bills that would win over their support. I guess Scott Brown is responsible because they could just filibuster anything that contained too much spending but if the Democrats actually had strategies that made sense, after the Republican unwillingness to respond to their outreach, their continued stimulus proposals should have been filled with infrastructure spending, urban improvements and new energy grid systems. Instead of realizing that continued bi-partisan outreach was futile they made the same mistake over and over and over again. It's sad.
