Media Matters has a great example of the Republican m.o. when fighting a measure like the stimulus package. You read through the bill with the most jaundiced eye possible (not by itself an illegitimate analytical approach, of course), and then pick out bits and pieces that can be cast in the worst light possible. Then you cry to the media, and see what sticks.
You've already seen it work with the family planning funds. The bankruptcy reform provisions were just Democrats shooting themselves in the foot. Republicans never even really got around to making a public stink about those, but they're gone nonetheless.
Summary: A San Francisco Chronicle article reported the false claim that $4.19 billion of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan "would go to the liberal housing activist group ACORN." In fact, the bill does not mention ACORN or otherwise single it out for funding.
rest http://www.congressmatters.com/storyonly/2009/1/27/141652/323
So where did this come from?
The false claim is based on a misrepresentation of a provision that would appropriate $4,190,000,000 "for neighborhood stabilization activities related to emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes as authorized under division B, title III of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008."
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