President Obama recently claimed that John Boehner released a statement urging a no vote on the stimulus “before we’[d] even had a chance to exchange ideas.” For Obama this was a “classic example” of his bipartisan spirit being slapped down by “those who made decisions based on a quick political calculus rather than on what the country needed.”

The Weekly Standard provides the rest of the story:

What really happened is this: Obama spoke to the House Republican conference on the morning of January 27, 2009. The night before, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had already introduced the stimulus bill that she and David Obey drafted with no input from Republicans at all. It was a totally partisan bill. Boehner didn’t put out a statement, but what he told Republicans leaked. What he said was that Republicans would oppose this bill, and he said Obama should override it and work with Republicans on a bipartisan stimulus. Republicans weren’t opposing an Obama bill. They were opposing a partisan bill drafted by House Democrats (which Obama embraced soon afterwards).
When Obama spoke to the Republican conference he was given a list of Republican ideas for the stimulus. After that meeting, Eric Cantor put out a statement saying this:
This is the third time we have met with President Obama and we appreciate his openness to Republican solutions. Unfortunately, congressional Democrats have not shown the same willingness for bipartisan compromise​—and that is reflected in their bill, which they will force a vote on tomorrow.
Indeed, the House voted the next day—January 28—for a stimulus bill that Republicans had played no part in drafting. All House Republicans voted no.

It’s hard to believe that Obama doesn’t remember what actually happened a year ago.