Labor Day is coming up. But employment is not (as attested by September 2 figures). Jobs are the most critical item on President Obamas agenda. Thursday in a speech before Congress, he will set out his plan for creating new jobs. We who have been hard on his recent political decisions (debt/deficit agreement, etc), dont always acknowledge his position between a rock and a hard place when it comes to getting legislation through the House of Representatives.Josh Marshall of TPM offers this dire description of what the president is up against: It is a given that House Republicans will not willingly pass anything over the next year to create jobs.The White House is in a tough position because the public as a whole has soured significantly over the last three years on the proposition of a government role in pulling the country out of recession -- a fact progressives have been very reluctant to recognize. But the president needs an argument about jobs to campaign on, even if he can't get one passed. And to that end, the policy and political logics are identical. He needs to propose a real agenda on jobs that he can press from now until next November.Conclusion: There's no point in trying to find a plan for job creation that Republicans will support since they'll oppose any plan the president comes up with. The limitation on the president's plan should be the reality of anti-government turn of public opinion not the prospect of willing cooperation from his Republican foes.Thoughts on what the president should say.