Raise your hand if you expected Chris Matthews of MSNBC to label this report, about Obama planning a highly negative campaign against Romney, as “the return of Swiftboat attacks” and “going from hope and change to dig-up-and-destroy.”

John Heilemann of New York magazine, who’s usually well plugged-in with the administration says that Obama is expected to unveil a jobs plan “sometime in September.”

After Obama’s vacation in late August, then.