Donald Lambro

LAMBRO: No cheer for the new year

The Commerce Department's revised gross domestic product (GDP) report Thursday threw cold water on the glimmer of hope that the economy was breaking out of its doldrums.

December 22, 2011

LAMBRO: Reid’s legislative trap

Once again, Congress is playing high-stakes poker with a precarious economy and the lives of struggling Americans who live paycheck to paycheck - that is, if they're lucky enough to have a job.

December 20, 2011

LAMBRO: Taking a stab at deficit reduction standoff

Sen. Pat Toomey, the GOP's fiercest anti-tax warrior, stunned the supercommittee when he proposed raising taxes to break the impasse over cutting the government's monster debt.

November 17, 2011

LAMBRO: Republicans tout tax reform

The modest uptick in economic growth is a welcome breather in the bleak Obama economy, but it won't reduce unemployment anytime soon.

October 27, 2011

LAMBRO: Grading Obama by the numbers

Barack Obama's presidency can be boiled down to four numbers: 9.1 percent unemployment, nearly $3 trillion in budget deficits, a sick economy barely growing at less than 1 percent, and a job approval rating that has fallen to below 40 percent.

October 11, 2011

LAMBRO: Plotting a winning tax divide

President Obama is running around the country trying to sell his plan to create jobs by raising income taxes. The idea draws cheers from liberals but boos from Republicans and even many Democrats on Capitol Hill who say we shouldn't be raising taxes on anyone, especially in a recession.

October 6, 2011

LAMBRO: Perry and Romney maintain party parity

Thus far, the maddening Republican storyline in the presidential election cycle is complicating the party's prospects of winning back the White House in 2012.

September 29, 2011

LAMBRO: Starting from the zero jobs line

The battered, jobless U.S. economy took a turn for the worse - much worse - this past week as President Obama prepared to offer another bag of bromides that looked like the failed remedies he has tried before. As the bedridden, near-comatose economy spiraled into a full-blown crisis for the country and his precarious presidency, hopeful signs of life were hard to find in the flat-lined data on jobs and growth.

September 6, 2011

LAMBRO: Barack Obama, investor-in-chief

Would you buy a used car from Barack Obama? Or would you want him managing your 401(k) investment retirement plan at work?

September 1, 2011

LAMBRO: For GOP hopefuls, it’s all about jobs

The political battle for the Republican presidential nomination is all about who can get the U.S. economy back on track and restart the once-great American jobs machine.

August 18, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama numbers that add up to one term

The Obama economy is looking bleaker than ever. All recessions end, but this one's going to last a lot longer than most because America remains overtaxed, overregulated and drowning in unfathomable debt.

August 11, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama media cheerleaders log overtime

The national news media's incomprehensible cheerleading aside, what the July numbers painted was a jobs picture where thousands of discouraged workers are dropping out of the work force because it is getting harder than ever to find a job in President Obama's America.

August 8, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama out of ideas, Americans out of luck

The flatlining Obama economy is at the tipping point of another recession. Economic growth has plunged to a near standstill, consumer spending has hit the brakes and the pace of job layoffs is rising.

August 4, 2011

LAMBRO: GOP stands victorious as smoke clears

The air was thick with bombastic predictions throughout the months-long battle over raising the debt ceiling. A deal appeared impossible, and pundits were predicting the divided Republicans and Tea Party insurgents who had ignited the budget-cutting revolution would be the political losers.

August 2, 2011