With today's less than sterling jobs report, Obama needs to begin pounding the Republicans in Congress 24/7 for their obstructionism when it comes to creating jobs. He started doing this in September with his Joint Session to Congress, but he seems to have pretty much laid off that attack since then. Now it's time to revive it.
And it's not as if Obama didn't propose an actual jobs plan. It's just that the Republicans in Congress have never allowed the legislation based on it to come up for a vote.
This gives Obama the perfect opportunity to point the finger directly at the Republicans for the bad news on the jobs front. He needs to point out in specific terms and with specific numbers how much better the jobs picture would be had Congress acted on his plan (just think of all the public school teachers alone who wouldn't be unemployed right now). He even needs to point out that the plan is revenue-neutral and that the jobs were to be paid for by placing a small surtax on incomes over a million dollars and cutting corporate loopholes. That would dovetail nicely into another of his campaign themes - that of the need for shared sacrifice and class equity.
I don't see many other options at the moment, but this one, at least, seems like a good one.