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First Read: Free advice President Obama is hearing plenty of advice, should he call Congress back to town or tune out the Washington chatter? Obama calls for big vehicle fuel standards Fire trucks and concrete mixers, semis, heavy-duty pickups and all trucks in between will, for the first time, have to trim fuel consumption and emissions of heat-trapping gases under new U.S. efficiency standards announced Tuesday by President Barack Obama. Video: Best of the campaign trail A wrap up of Republicans on the road, including Michele Bachmann’s response to Newsweek’s controversial cover and Mitt Romney on his mystery donor. Romney calls Obama strategy ‘disgraceful’ The GOP candidate’s camp responds to a report that the president plans to portray the Republican as inauthentic. 2012 campaigns and the downgrade effect The downgrading of U.S. government bonds by Standard & Poor’s ensures that the 2012 election will be fought on the battlefield of debt, as Electoral College math begins mingling with dire economic figures. First Read: Obama’s worst week as president He’s faced criticism over the debt deal, a 500-point Dow plunge, an S&P downgrade and a deadly helicopter crash. Will Obama seize this obvious leadership moment? Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032552/device/rss/rss.xml

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