"I think it's (the economy is) self-substantively growing, the problem is it's not growing in a way that takes up the slack. We're kinda of in lost decade territory. Those of us who studied Japan in the 90s look at this and say 'Gosh, we're looking awfully Japanese right now,'" Paul Krugman said on ABC News' "This Week."

"The unemployment numbers are obviously disturbing. Are they an anomaly as some people suggest because of the disasters in the south and the mid-west and the rest or is this something systemic that we have to accommodate in a different way?" House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on CBS' "Face the Nation" this morning.

Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) spoke to Bob Schieffer on the possibility of a double dip recession, the 2012 Republican hopefuls, and Paul Ryan's plan for Medicare.

"It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with the sinking ship but I prefer and many Americans prefer that we start plugging the hole that we start powering up the bilge pump and start getting rid of this unsustainable debt that is sinking our ship. We don't have to go the way of the Titanic and there are th

"Don't make too much of any one month's job report because they are highly variable," President Obama's top economic advisor Austan Goolsbee said noting that the economy has improved dramatically from the picture two years ago. "After the last recession, in this comparable period, post-recession, we had lost 100,000 jobs. We've added more than two

Back story here. (via The Right Scoop)

Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson, Kimberly Strassel and John Podesta debate.

Herman Cain, Dee Dee Myers, Mark McKinnon and Jon Karl.

Presidential candidate Ron Paul says people used to laugh at his foreign and monetary policies, but not anymore.

Paul Krugman, Chrystia Freeland, Martin Regalia discuss.

ANITA DUNN: "I thought it was almost unseemly on Friday to watch the Republicans basically rooting for failure on those unemployment numbers, reveling in the idea that things are not going well."