https://obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu/topics/republican-opposition
Working with key Democrats in Congress, the Obama team negotiated draft legislation, and began to line up votes to have a bill ready for Obama’s signature during his first weeks in office. Despite a series of bipartisan negotiations, all but three Republican Senators ultimately voted against the package, while not a single House Republican voted in its favor. When Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in early 2009, it had become clear that Republicans were committed to opposing Obama’s legislative agenda—or as Republican Senator George Voinovich later explained the strategy: “If [Obama] was for it, we had to be against it.”
Obama's tribute to Voinovich: https://www.cleveland.com/open/2016/06/president_obama_issues_stateme.html
Working with key Democrats in Congress, the Obama team negotiated draft legislation, and began to line up votes to have a bill ready for Obama’s signature during his first weeks in office. Despite a series of bipartisan negotiations, all but three Republican Senators ultimately voted against the package, while not a single House Republican voted in its favor. When Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in early 2009, it had become clear that Republicans were committed to opposing Obama’s legislative agenda—or as Republican Senator George Voinovich later explained the strategy: “If [Obama] was for it, we had to be against it.”
Obama's tribute to Voinovich: https://www.cleveland.com/open/2016/06/president_obama_issues_stateme.html

