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It's turning into a deja vu week for us here at PolitiFact. We've been checking videos attacking Sen. Mitch McConnell (from the Democrats) and the stimulus (from the Republicans) and we keep having flashbacks to the 2008 campaign.

The videos use the same techniques to distort the stimulus and McConnell's voting record that we saw time and time again during the 2008 campaign. As Paul Simon (the singer, not the senator) once said, after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.

Here's your guide to the distortions:

• The Democratic National Committee earned a Barely True for its claim that McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, opposed "legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . . health care for Kentucky's children, " and "fair pay for women."
  
• House Republican Leader John Boehner earned a False for claiming that a town in North Carolina hired someone with stimulus money to solicit more stimulus money. It's a great zinger -- but it's not true.
• And Boehner earned a Barely True for claiming that the stimulus paid for the replacement of a Wisconsin bridge to help a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon..
  

Coming later this week: We'll explore whether Obama has flipped on "single-payer" health care. And make sure you check our video on the new Reporters' Center on YouTube. The video, which explains our our fact-checking techniques, was put together at the request of our friends at YouTube.