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...doubt that the obstructionist strategy helped bolster the beleaguered fiscal-conservative arm of the Republican Party. After eight years of growing the government under the Bush Administration, creating new entitlements and funding bridges to nowhere, their reputation was in shreds. "It was a very dangerous strategy because, if the stimulus worked, the Republicans would have been very vulnerable," says John Feehery, a Republican strategist. "But it didn't work, and that gave the GOP some needed credibility...
...outright opposition to the stimulus was a huge risk: after all, if the bill worked - and many independent economists believe it did manage to stave off a far worse recession - they could be seen as having been on the wrong side of history. As members wandered in and out of Cantor's conference room on the third floor of the Capitol that Monday, a consensus began to form. "The lesson learned from the stimulus vote was our members felt comfortable in taking that political risk against a popular President if we had a credible alternative, and we did," Cantor says...
...tank. After two bruising election cycles in which the GOP lost the White House and both the House and Senate, pundits were predicting they might be at the dawn of another 40-year stint in the minority. President Obama was publicly reaching out to Republicans on the massive stimulus bill, but something made House minority leader John Boehner and No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor pause at the idea of working hand in hand with Obama. (See TIME's coverage of the 2010 World Economic Forum in Davos...
...They traveled to the White House on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, to present Obama with their ideas for the stimulus bill. They weren't greatly encouraged, though, when Obama told them at that meeting in the Roosevelt Room that "elections have consequences, and I won." Over the weekend, the GOP leadership met, and by the time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a deal on the legislation late Sunday, they were sure that nothing they had proposed was included in the measure...
...enthusiasm of a convert. When she was living in California, she voted for Gray Davis, a Democrat, for governor. Now she paints signs and has a website, angryrightwinghousewife.com. Hoelscher, a mother of three, says, "Obama and the Democrats have not addressed the economy at all." She believes the stimulus bill was nothing but a "slush fund." But she is also offended by Republicans and says she will work for Republican challenger J.D. Hayworth against incumbent Senator John McCain, who she says has been unresponsive to the "illegal immigration [that] is destroying the job market." (See pictures of last year...