Daily Caller - In response to President Obama’s upcoming jobs speech, House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor called on the president in a letter Tuesday to work with House Republicans to find “common ground” on job creation.

Politico - A new survey finds that registered voters would rather have Republicans in charge of Congress.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Just before President Barack Obama offered a full-throated defense of labor unions in front of a crowd in Detroit, Jimmy Hoffa, the son of the infamous Jimmy Hoffa Sr., head of the Teamsters Union, declared war on the Republican Party and the tea party.

AP - Pledging fidelity to the Constitution and vowing to carry the tea party's priorities to the White House, the Republicans chasing the GOP's presidential nomination pitched themselves Monday to their party's libertarian activists as the strongest candidates to roll back four years of President Barack Obama's tenure.

AP - Pledging fidelity to the Constitution and vowing to carry the tea party's priorities to the White House, the Republicans chasing the GOP's presidential nomination pitched themselves Monday to their party's libertarian activists as the strongest candidates to roll back four years of President Barack Obama's tenure.

Aaron Friedberg, New York Times
AMERICA’S fiscal woes are placing the country on a path of growing strategic risk in Asia.With Democrats eager to protect social spending and Republicans anxious to avoid tax hikes, and both saying the national debt must be brought under control, we can expect sustained efforts to slash the defense budget. Over the next 10 years, cuts in planned spending could total half a trillion dollars. Even as the Pentagon saves money by pulling back from Afghanistan and Iraq, there will be fewer dollars with which to buy weapons or develop new ones.

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Monday previewed proposals for new infrastructure spending and an extension of payroll tax cuts as part of a major jobs package he will unveil this week, and challenged Republicans to find common ground with him.

Daily Caller - After Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. called for a “war” against Republicans and tea partiers on Monday, one tea party group is calling for the union leader to resign.

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Republicans not to play politics with federal disaster aid as he toured flood-stricken New Jersey and pledged to do everything possible to help states recover after Hurricane Irene.

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Republicans not to play politics with federal disaster aid as he toured flood-stricken New Jersey and pledged to do everything possible to help states recover after Hurricane Irene.

Daily Caller - Sarah Palin said it is important whom Republicans choose to run against President Obama, but didn’t directly address whether she’ll join the 2012 presidential race during her much-anticipated speech before a tea party crowd in Iowa on Saturday.

The Ticket - As Sarah Palin heads to the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, Republicans around the country are eagerly awaiting any news regarding her plans for a potential presidential campaign. Or are they? Overwhelming majorities of Republicans, including self-identified conservatives and tea party members, do not want Palin to run for president, according to [...]

Jonathan Chait, The New Republic
The August jobs report casts in sharper relief the Obama administration's proposal next week to boost the economy. As I've argued before, this is a political move. House Republicans have neither the political nor the ideological incentive to adopt any new expansionary fiscal policy. But to call it political is not to dismiss its importance. Obama's speech, if it succeeds, can help clarify something that Republicans have successfully obscured: Obama is not in charge of the economy. The policies in place represent a compromise between the two parties, and with government jobs...

Friday's dismal jobs report raises the stakes for President Obama as he prepares to unveil a new jobs plan next week. So far, Republicans in Congress have shown little interest in the president's proposals. And the economic slowdown suggests that political gridlock has a growing price tag.

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Cenk Uygur, Salon
Here was the headline on Yahoo News tonight: "Obama bows to Boehner on jobs speech." Bows to Boehner: I can tell you what any progressive who has been paying attention thought, "Oh boy, here we go again."President Obama has now changed the day of his address to Congress to accommodate the Republicans. They were having a GOP presidential debate on the original date he picked. So, Boehner told him to move his speech. He is the president for Christ's sake. Of course, they should have accommodated him, not the other way around. But as usual, President Obama bowed.So, this...

The Week - The local GOP in Gabrielle Giffords' district plans to raffle off a Glock semi-automatic pistol — the same type of gun Giffords was shot with in January

Next Thursday, President Obama will present his jobs proposal before Congress. Democratic supporters hope his plan will offer a rallying point to excite his base, rather than a compromise Republicans may agree to.

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AP - The tiff over the timing of President Barack Obama's jobs speech to Congress offers little hope that Republicans and the White House will now find common ground on how to reduce the nation's painfully high unemployment. In fact, some Democrats say it's time Obama stopped trying so hard to negotiate.

HuffPost's Sam Stein appeared on CBS' The Early Show to discuss President Obama's decision to postpone a major jobs speech in light of GOP pressure.

"I think the White House really wanted to create a contrast both with the GOP presidential candidates but also Republicans in Congress. They like the image of Obama speaking to a joint session, talking down on lawmakers, urging them to get going on jobs. They're not going to get that optic now," he said.

He also weighed in on the GOP 2012 field.

Discussing Mitt Romney's weaknesses, he said, "there's always a group of Republicans who are skeptical of Mitt Romney. They think he's a chameleon, they think he'd say anything to get elected, they don't like the fact that he's run basically for the past 2, 3 years. And Rick Perry was bound to take some of that fire."

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Politico - How Republicans and Dems view organized labor has grown to historic margins, a new poll shows.  

The Week - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has Republicans excited, but some strategists say former frontrunner Mitt Romney is the GOPer who Obama is really worried about

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Wednesday agreed to unveil new jobs proposals in an address to Congress on September 8, bowing to pressure from Republicans, who objected to the original date set for his high-profile speech.

The Week - The president relents after Republicans lambaste him for trying to address Congress on the same night as a much-hyped GOP presidential debate