WASHINGTON — The road for another stimulus bill just got tougher following Tuesday’s election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate in Democratic stronghold Massachusetts. After health care, Congress’ next big priority is to pass something that shows voters in an election year that they’re on top of the nation’s unemployment scourge. But the Democrats’ loss of a filibuster-proof super-majority in the Senate throws hurdles onto an already rocky path toward a new stimulus bill aimed at saving jobs. Given how controversial the first stimulus package remains, passing a new jobs bill, or ‘second stimulus,’ was never going to be easy. Republicans have especially targeted the first stimulus package as a prime example of the kind of big government spending they aim to end. ‘There is a reason the nation was focused on this race,’ said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. ‘The American people have made it abundantly clear that they are more interested in shrinking unemployment than expanding government. They are tired of bailouts.’ Experts and policy analysts say the Republican win in Massachusetts will shore up Republican opposition to anything that looks like big spending. ‘I think it’ll be very hard,’ […]