addressed the nation tonight, and went in to real specifics about what he has proposed for deficit reduction, as well as the ideas that others have proposed, which he can support, like harry reid's latest plan that specifies the 2.3 trillion spending cuts. tim pawlenty issued this bold statement. once again president obama did not have the courage to offer real solutions to fix runaway debt." . of course, pawlenty's statement ignores what the president said tonight. no, pawlenty's statement actually lies about what the president said. >> let's live within our means by making serous historic cuts in government spending. let's cut domestic spending to the lowest level since dwight eisenhower was in office. let's cut defense spending by hundreds of millions of dollars