Obama pushes stimulus plan while GOP pushes back By PHILIP ELLIOTT and ANDREW TAYLOR (AP)

Republicans characterized Obama's rhetoric as arrogant.

"Democrats have controlled both branches of government for less than a month. And you have to wonder if all that power has gone to their heads," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said in the GOP's weekly address. "For the last two weeks, they've been trying to force a massive spending bill through Congress under the guise of economic relief."

(Now that was an ignorant thing to say, wasn't it?)