President Obama is overly fond of the "false choice" rhetorical devise (see here), so it's approrpriate for somebody to spring one on him occasionally:
Tim Pawlenty endeared himself to enthused Republican activists here Thursday with an impassioned attack against President Barack Obama's rhetoric on the looming debt-ceiling fight, accusing him of misleading on the issue.
"President Obama has set up a false choice," Pawlenty said at an evening meeting of the Nashua Area Republican City Committee. "He has said either raise the debt ceiling or the United States of America will default on its bills to outside creditors, which could set off a series of negative events."
The third choice would be to not raise the debt ceiling and then cut spending and borrowing. That's the kind of blindingly obvious need that even somebody who has to use a payday lender can grasp.
