A “false choice” is cookies or cupcakes. The answer is clearly “both.” (ap)

President Obama and his chief economist, Austan Goolsbee, both uncannily talked about “false choices” today on TARP spending and the deficit — but that may be where their message coordination ended, because they offered two pretty different false choices:

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