What a waste of news time for Judy Woodruff to interview two Senators about the tenor of the President's response to the Iran situation! This is the stupid political chatter of the talking heads on Fox, unworthy of PBS. Your interviews are always better when you have experts not politicians. We learn more and get better analysis from non-politicians. There are always more than two sides and the way you often set things up with politicians skews the discussion and doesn't give consideration to a variety of options.

There's not going to be any-shaped recovery in growth if you mean by that economic growth sustained by inflation, because we are not experiencing a Keynesian sort of recession or depression, but a deflation, and a necessary one given the production function involved. However, generally, where deflations are involved, it takes several up and downturns for the inflation to be wrung out. If the govt steps in to attempt to sustain inflation, as happened in Japan and is happening here, this could yield a steady state or further need for deflation.

I was extremely disappointed in tonight's News Hour discussion of health care, where an obvious, substantial distortion of President Obama's position went uncorrected and unchallenged. An interviewee stated that President Obama's position was "softening" today concerning Public Option health legislation. It was said that for him, now, a Public Option insurer was not an essential component of legislation. Quite to the contrary, President Obama actually said today that a Public Option is essential to any meaningful cost-cutting measures, and that cost-cutting is a fundamental, essential component in any acceptable legislation whatsoever. He stated that cost containment is "impossible" unless we have the Public Option. Period. Your program's depiction of Mr. Obama's statement is so far from what the President actually said, it gives the appearance of a remarkable lack of journalistic competence - atypical for the News Hour - concerning the interviewee's unobjective attempt to "spin" viewers' perception of a Public Option. Why was the interviewee's position not questioned further? There IS, per se, no health care reform possible without a Public Option. It is plain to the voters and to your viewers that all-private, so to speak, is what has ruined us so far. Clear misrepresentations of the positions of our President should never go unchallenged.