Cheney attacks Obama for doing what he and Bush did, expand govt and increase the deficit

Of course, Cheney's an idiot for suggesting that Obama shouldn't have increased the deficit. The alternative was letting the country sink into another Great Depression. It's troublesome that the man who was just recently vice president, and de facto president, is suggesting that we should have let the country fall into a depression rather than increase the size of the deficit.

The media needs to hold Cheney to this comment. So do the Democrats. Unless the President wants to give in to the Republicans on the notion that the stimulus was not necessary, someone at the senior levels of our government, preferably President Obama, needs to hit back hard on Cheney, and ask why he favors sending the country into a Depression.

The President can't win by sitting back and pretending these attacks won't matter. As we've seen time and again, they do matter, and they work. We won't stop them by publishing economic treatises, we'll only win by hitting the Republicans back, hard, every time they make an idiotic statement like Cheney did today.

Above the fray hasn't really worked, in terms of defeating the GOP lies.