A somewhat interesting read

The WaPo has a long "100 days" piece, the first part of which focuses on the near death of the stimulus bill. According to this White House supplied version, it was the unified opposition of the Republicans to the Stimulus that "killed bipartisanship."

But Obama and his advisers corrected course quickly. Drawing conclusions from a post-mortem analysis that Emanuel conducted of the stimulus battle, senior White House advisers returned to the successful tactics of the presidential campaign, taking the president and his message beyond the Beltway and scaling back his appeals to congressional Republicans. The approach has defined the way he has governed since.

(PS. That's kinda the same thing the Bush folks said in 2001.)