Donald Lambro

LAMBRO: Obama gets it backward

In a recent interview, President Obama seemed to suggest his policies would have created more jobs if businesses had stopped finding ways to be more productive with fewer workers.

June 16, 2011

LAMBRO: Feints to the right

The third year of Barack Obama's presidency is running into the same troubles he faced in his first two, thus undermining his prospects for a second term.

May 31, 2011

LAMBRO: Game time for Democrats

Senate Democrats were expected to bring up the House Republicans' 2012 budget plan for a vote this week, but not their own plan, which remains under lock and key.

May 24, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama’s economic seesaw

The bump in President Obama's approval polls after Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden didn't last long. It was shot down by $4-a-gallon gas, a 9 percent unemployment rate and an economy that has slowed to barely 2 percent growth. Thursday's Gallup poll puts his job approval/disapproval score at 48 percent to 43 percent, down from midlevel scores in the 50s after U.S. special operation forces eliminated bin Laden.

May 19, 2011

LAMBRO: One kill does not a presidency make

The Obama administration's daring nighttime attack by commandos who killed Osama bin Laden and four of his aides has dealt al Qaeda terrorists a severe but far from fatal blow.

May 3, 2011

LAMBRO: The trouble with Trump

Donald Trump has been saying things about himself and others lately that are untrue, suggesting that he has a tendency to make up his own reality as he goes along.

April 28, 2011

LAMBRO: GOP’s Medicare plan is risky solo act

Reports coming in from congressional town hall meetings during the Easter recess say that Republican lawmakers were peppered with angry questions about cutting Medicare.

April 26, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama failing to quell economic fears

America's fragile, high-unemployment, debt-ridden economy is looking shakier than ever, threatening Barack Obama's chances of a second term and boosting support for the GOP's drive to sharply cut government spending.

April 19, 2011

LAMBRO: Daring GOP stab at reining in overspending

In the last three months, the biggest battle in Washington has been about carving a relatively tiny amount of money out of this year's $3.7 trillion budget. But while Republicans, Democrats and the White House bickered over whether to cut anywhere from $61 billion to $33 billion - or else shut down the government - a far bigger battle looms in the months ahead over the fiscal 2012 budget and trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.

April 5, 2011

LAMBRO: Shutter diplomacy

Voters sent a loud, angry message to President Obama and Congress last November that government is too big, and spends too much. Cut it.

April 1, 2011

LAMBRO: Double vision over Libya

President Obama's address Monday in defense of his military intervention in Libya may go down in the history books as one of the most artful speeches ever given in the midst of retreat with both guns blazing.

March 29, 2011

LAMBRO: More ‘unexpected’ bad news

While President Obama was touring the capitals of Latin America this week, Americans were being battered by one bad economic report after another.

March 24, 2011

LAMBRO: No quiters in game of budgetary chicken

Getting a law passed in Congress is a very difficult thing to do because our Founding Fathers designed it that way, fearing that bad legislation would rob the people of their rights and freedoms.

March 15, 2011

LAMBRO: Democrats’ lines give ground

This has been a rotten week for big spending, liberals and President Obama and a great week for conservatives in the war to reduce the size and cost of government.

March 10, 2011

LAMBRO: A strong dose of economic reality

The welcome addition of 192,000 jobs last month comes with some huge caveats that suggest that the Obama economy isn't going to reduce the high unemployment rate anytime soon.

March 8, 2011

LAMBRO: Sideline spectator

Barack Obama is coming under increasing fire for being a passive, reactive president, who all too often is on the sidelines instead of in the arena of the great policy battles of our time.

March 3, 2011

LAMBRO: A secret Obama doesn’t want you to know

No doubt by now you've heard the story on the nightly news that the Obama economy grew at a weaker pace in the fourth quarter of last year than was expected.

March 1, 2011

LAMBRO: Christie rallies governors for spending cuts

Thomas Jefferson said a revolution now and then is a good thing, and that's what's happening in states around the country that are dramatically cutting their budgets.

February 24, 2011

LAMBRO: Playing the business card

There are plenty of reasons to be dubious about President Obama's forced fence-mending efforts with the business community as he begins his 2012 campaign for a second term. His stout defense Monday of a mountain of job-killing business regulations before what was described as a "polite, subdued audience" at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce signaled that business has well-deserved doubts about him, too.

February 8, 2011

LAMBRO: Budget attention deficit disorder

Uncontrolled government spending is far worse than projected just a few months ago, driving the federal budget much more deeply into debt that threatens our economy and our future standard of living. This fiscal year's budget

February 4, 2011