There was an interesting headline in CNN today: "Americans disapprove of stimulus, but like every policy in it." And there was a poll that showed that if you broke it down into its component parts, 80 percent approved of the tax cuts, 80 percent approved of the infrastructure, 80 percent approved of the assistance to the unemployed.
via whitehouse.gov
How you frame and name things unfortunately are more important in politics and public opinion than what you actually do.
Politics in a twitter age. This is a problem.