Donald Lambro

LAMBRO: Public isn’t buying it

When Democrats muscled their health care reform bill through the Senate last month with no votes to spare, it was considered the last major hurdle for the centerpiece of President Obama's legislative agenda.

January 14, 2010

LAMBRO: Right swerve ahead?

Senate Democrats were stunned by the two back-to-back retirements in their ranks last week that foreshadow more election losses to come, perhaps as many as four to five more.

January 11, 2010

War, Obama-style

Renewed terrorist penetration of homeland security and U.S. intelligence and military bases has thrown President Obama on the defensive - raising deeply disturbing questions about his policies to keep America safe.

January 7, 2010

Turn to the private sector

We enter another new year, a time of fresh beginnings and maybe even a bit of optimism that we may dare to hope things will get better for our country, our families and ourselves.

January 4, 2010

Dems brace for voter backlash on health

Democratic leaders are girding for a political war over the health care overhaul heading in to this year's midterm elections, preparing strategies and raising funds to fend off attacks by Republicans eager to capitalize on voter discontent.

January 1, 2010

Congressional openings

A number of House Democrats have announced they are retiring, and party officials say more could follow in a tough midterm election year of high unemployment, a slow economic recovery and a very angry electorate.

December 31, 2009

No pastels in Florida

Conservative challenger Marco Rubio has surged into a dead heat in his Florida Senate campaign against establishment-backed Charlie Crist in a primary battle that is the first major test of the growing power of the "tea party" movement.

December 28, 2009

In a hole and digging deeper

President Obama still insists we can "spend our way out of this recession" to create jobs, and Democrats are pushing another spending stimulus in a vain attempt to do just that.

December 24, 2009

GOP seeking House gains in 2010

Democratic retirements are fueling a Republican resurgence, but that still may not be enough for Congress to change hands next year. The recent decision by four veteran House Democrats to call it quits is raising questions about whether more will soon follow as the 2010 political climate grows more threatening in the midterm congressional elections, a year when government and business forecasters are predicting high unemployment and a slow economic recovery.

December 22, 2009

Profligate road to perdition

The fat-filled $1.1 trillion appropriations bill Democrats sent President Obama last week is the latest action in a spending spree that is fast becoming the pivotal political issue of the midterm elections.

December 21, 2009

Conservative ties Crist in Senate poll

Gov. Charles Crist and his conservative challenger Marco Rubio are now dead even in the Florida Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate that has turned into a major battleground between the party establishment and the insurgent "tea party" movement's bid to take control of the Republican Party.

December 17, 2009

Public option protrusions

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reached out to the mother of all government-run options in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save President Obama's health care bill, no matter what the cost.

December 17, 2009

Polls show Dems might lose Obama, Biden Senate seats

President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. won't be on the midterm ballot next year, but their former Senate seats will be, and both races are now either tossups or leaning Republican in high-visibility contests.

December 14, 2009

Wary in Delaware

The waiting game continued last week to see if Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, will run for his father's former Senate seat.

December 14, 2009

Prospects slender for Reid

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is not only getting a failing re-election grade from his Nevada constituents, but zero scores in senatorial decorum and U.S. legislative history, too.

December 10, 2009

Biden mum on run for Senate seat

More than two months after Republican Rep. Michael N. Castle announced he will run for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s former Senate seat in Delaware, state Attorney General Beau Biden has not said whether he will be a candidate for the remaining four years of his father's term.

December 8, 2009

Club for Growth packs a punch

The Club for Growth, champion of low taxes, fiscal responsibility and free market economics, isn't exactly a household name, but it will be a major political force to be reckoned with in the 2010 midterm elections.

December 7, 2009

Club for Growth wields outsized influence

With a small staff and a single office on L Street in Northwest Washington, the conservative organization Club for Growth has had an outsized impact on key elections since its founding a decade ago.

December 6, 2009

Republican revival

American politics passed the midpoint mark this week between the Republicans' 2008 losses and the 2010 midterm elections, when polls point to Republican Party gains in Congress and the governorships.

December 3, 2009

Coleman gubernatorial bid?

Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who is said to be undergoing "decompression" after narrowly losing re-election in a brutal, eight-month recount battle with a TV comedian, is thinking of running for governor again.

November 30, 2009