Donald Lambro

LAMBRO: Crunch time for Obama’s weak economic numbers

The bleak truth about the comatose Obama economy is not just that it's barely breathing. It's still not far from another recession.

October 30, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama’s miscalculation on female vote

The Obama campaign made a coldly calculated decision early this year to go after the women's vote by attacking Mitt Romney on his right-to-life position.

October 18, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama, the face of failure

Finally, a pollster asked voters the one question that matters in this presidential election: Does Barack Obama know how to fix the economy?

October 9, 2012

LAMBRO: Romney’s debate target: Obama’s economy

Mitt Romney will come out with both guns blazing in Wednesday night's debate with President Obama. His target will be the president's four-year failure to lead the U.S. economy back to robust health.

October 2, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama’s Orwellian economy

How is it possible that Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney on who can better handle the economy when it has been in decline all year?

September 25, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama’s work slowdown

Sometime during the past month or so, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign lost its laserlike focus on the bleak, job-starved Obama economy.

September 18, 2012

LAMBRO: There are only two ways to cut budget deficits

The core of President Obama's campaign is built upon the fallacious idea that Mitt Romney's plan to get the economy growing again will take us back to the policies that caused the Great Recession.

September 13, 2012

LAMBRO: Misleading by example

There was a huge, gaping hole in former President Bill Clinton's defensive speech Wednesday night on behalf of Barack Obama's bid for a second term.

September 6, 2012

LAMBRO: Convention fever starts with F

The weakening, job-starved Obama economy looms over the Democratic National Convention this week, casting a pall of gloom over a party paralyzed by its far-left ideology.

September 4, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama’s guilty silence

The most salient characteristic of the Obama administration's abject failure to put the American economy back to work has been its deafening silence on the issue in his campaign.

August 30, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama economy even worse than anticipated

The Obama economy is weaker than previously forecast and darker days lie ahead. If you think the feeble economy under this administration is bad, wait until next year when the Congressional Budget Office says it could fall into another deep recession if there's no year-end deal to forestall nearly half-a-trillion dollars in income tax hikes and spending cuts.

August 23, 2012

LAMBRO: Renewable energy dollars for Obama’s cronies

Anyone who follows the news or is unemployed knows the lack of jobs in President Obama's economy and an exploding $15.9 trillion debt are two of the voters' top

August 2, 2012

LAMBRO: For Americans, ‘tax’ is no word game

The White House attack line this week against Mitt Romney is that he is now calling the punishing fine in the health care mandate a tax, a few days after he said it was a penalty. While this is hardly one of the burning issues in the 2012 presidential election, President Obama's campaign strategists and his friends in the network news media saw it as a chance to raise doubts about Mr. Romney's consistency on the issues.

July 5, 2012

LAMBRO: Surprise cost of Obamacare

Several issues are being distorted in the wake of the Supreme Court's contradictory, backdoor ruling that up-held President Obama's health care law on a disputed word definition.

July 4, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama’s fate turns on ‘better off’ query

Are you better off than you were four years ago? That is the politically pivotal question that will ultimately determine the outcome of the 2012 presidential election. This, of course, was the question former Gov. Ronald Reagan posed in his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter.

June 21, 2012