“What the GOP should do is tell Obama they will support it IF Obama changes the plan to make all of the spending contained in the bill into a grant to the states. Then the states can do what they want with it, and every state will get its share. “
The problem with this is you concede that the “stimulus” is ok, which it is not. The only real solution is for government to step back and release its death grip on the free market. I know this isn’t even a little likely, but playing with scenarios that accept the stimulus is the first step to capitulation.
What the GOP should do, at all levels, is to Just say no.
The GOP can’t stop this steam-roller. The only thing it can do is influence what it says. Make it say that the money is going to the states, and it becomes very defensible for the GOP to vote for it because not only will the red states get their share of the $, but the red states will then be able to use the money to give tax cuts while the blue states use it to pay off the debt they’ve run up in the last 8 years.