It seems that in order for the repubs to come out against the president they might be trying to indirectly go after him by going after FDR and the new deal.
Because this stimulus is being compared to, quite rightly, the new deal of FDR, they are trying to tarnish Obama in a round about way. McConnell recently said:
“But one of the good things about reading history is you learn a good deal. And, we know for sure that the big spending programs of the New Deal did not work. In 1940, unemployment was still 15%. And, it's widely agreed among economists, that what got us out of the doldrums that we were in during the Depression was the beginning of World War II."
This is very dishonest but par for the repub course. Don't like the history, make an alternative story. FDR's new deal was the backbone for getting out of the depression.
So, by going after the new deal, it is a side way to go after Obama. Or maybe at least by attacking the new deal, they can use a their false history as a reason why they aren't supporting it.
So it might be a in the dems advantage to prevent the repubs from tarnishing the new deal.
