Pawlenty's claim that President Obama is setting up this false choice between default and raising the debt ceiling

Pawlenty claims "you can take away that false choice by ordering the Treasury to pay the obligations to outside creditors first..." Failing to pay people inside the United States to whom the U.S. government owes money has a name, Tim. It's name is "default." It's not an alternative to default, it's a type of default. http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-tim-pawlenty-mitch-daniels/story?id=13714378&page= 4