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President Obama’s highly anticipated jobs speech is coming Thursday.  And politicians took to the Sunday political talk shows to discuss their expectations. 

Democratic Representative Maxine Waters of California says she hopes the President won’t back down.

MAXINE WATERS (D -CA): “I don’t think he can shrink from the threats of the right.  I don’t think he can have a program that simply gives more tax breaks to the very people who got us in this trouble in the first place. And so I’m hopeful, I’m very hopeful that the President is going to put a big program out there and that he’s gonna fight very hard for it.” (NBC)

And after a public showdown with Republican House Speaker John Boehner about when Mr. Obama could even deliver his speech to a joint session of Congress -- some of his supporters suggest he “caved” once again to GOP demands.

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin says the president has to stand up to Congress in his speech.

“I think he has to show that he’s willing to take a risk.  I think what we need now is strength in Washington, strength coming from him.  I mean, one of the sad things about this whole contretemps about whether he should give it on Wednesday or Thursday night was once again giving in to the Congress when he has to challenge them.” (NBC)

A reporter for The Hill comments on MSNBC -- agreeing the scheduling debacle was not a good sign for the White House. 

“There was this very painful petty partisan squabble last week about when the speech would be given.  I think the White House embarrassed itself on that front as well by picking a fight they didn’t need to pick and they ended up loosing. …It looks like a political rebuttal and I think this speech is not going to be able to deliver on these expectations.” 

One Tea Party representative -- Illinois’ Joe Walsh -- has even threatened not to attend the speech. But Republican Senator Jim DeMint says he’ll be there -- but he won’t be happy about it.

“What the President appears to be doing -- and frankly I’m so tired of his speeches it’s going to be hard for me to watch.  We need a plan in writing ... Without sending something in writing, the President makes all of these grand gestures and then it doesn’t appear in any legislation.” (ABC)

Among other proposals -- Mr. Obama is expected to call for an extension of the payroll tax cut -- as well as a call for infrastructure projects to create jobs. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be giving a speech on his vision for hiring on Tuesday -- two days before the President.

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