Donald Lambro

Unhealthy smoke and mirrors

President Obama showed us just how serious he is about changing the divisive "tone" in Washington when he lashed out at the health insurance industry in his weekly radio address last Saturday.

October 22, 2009

Tough votes make for a tough race for Lincoln in 2010

In a sign of the worsening political environment for Democrats in recent months, two-term incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln is running into trouble in Arkansas, where recent independent polls show her trailing all four of her major Republican rivals who hope to deny the lawmaker's bid for re-election in 2010.

October 20, 2009

A bumpy ride for business

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce began an ad campaign last week to promote free enterprise, which it warned was in danger of being drowned by a tsunami of government regulations, controls and taxes that would inhibit economic growth and jobs for years to come.

October 19, 2009

Trick-or-treat season

We are in the bewitching trick-or-treat season when Democrats are telling us their nearly $1 trillion health reform plan is deficit-neutral and will reduce the nation's soaring medical care costs.

October 15, 2009

Christie clings to lead in N.J. race

Three weeks before Election Day, the race between New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and his Republican rival, former U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie, is nearly a dead heat, though campaign analysts say the embattled liberal Democratic governor is still in trouble.

October 13, 2009

Endangered Democrats

As soon as Republican Rep. Michael N. Castle announced last week that he was running for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s open Senate seat, election analysts rated the contest a tossup favoring the Republican Party.

October 12, 2009

Obama plan stirs little

Harvard economist Robert Barro expressed disbelief earlier this year when President Obama and his advisers forecast that his economic stimulus program would create or save 4 million jobs.

October 8, 2009

Castle boosts GOP prospects in Del.

Republican Rep. Michael N. Castle of Delaware, the state's nine-term at-large congressman, announced Tuesday that he would run for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s old Senate seat, instantly shifting the race from a safe Democratic seat to a tossup in 2010.

October 7, 2009

Analysts: GOP to gain many seats in ‘10

The national political landscape for Republicans has improved so dramatically in recent months that election analysts say the only remaining question is how deep the Democrats' losses will be in the 2010 congressional midterm races.

October 6, 2009

Stimulus’ impact disputed

The nation's nearly 10 percent unemployment rate has raised fresh doubts about the impact of President Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan, with some economic analysts arguing there is little or no evidence that it has helped create or preserve the millions of jobs Mr. Obama promised.

October 6, 2009

The art of backing away

President Obama's recent decision to scrap plans for an anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic was the price Russia demanded for its cooperation with the young, inexperienced president on national security issues.

October 5, 2009

Pushing voters to GOP

The White House remains in deep denial about the growing unpopularity of President Obama's government health care plan.

October 1, 2009

BREITBART: Podesta spends Soros’ money stupidly

A telling event occurred on Sept. 15, Day 6 of the drip, drip, drip ACORN video rollout. President Obama met for lunch with former President Bill Clinton at trendy Il Mulino in New York City.

September 28, 2009

Terror and diplomacy

President Obama recently told the United Nations that the era of George W. Bush's foreign policy was over and that he is taking a bold new approach to international diplomacy and dealing with the world's troublemakers.

September 28, 2009

Kennedy confidant to fill Senate seat

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Thursday named longtime Kennedy family adviser Paul G. Kirk, Jr. to temporarily fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, less than 24 hours after the Democratic-run state legislature gave him the statutory authority to make an appointment.

September 25, 2009

Unexorcised tax penalty

President Obama absolutely refuses to acknowledge there is a huge middle-class tax in the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill. Mr. Obama flatly denies the legislation that the White House supports contains a stiff penalty tax that would hit uninsured middle-income people the hardest - the very people he promised would never see their taxes rise under his presidency.

September 24, 2009

Tea Party movement set road trip for October

The Tea Party Express will hit the road again in October to keep its political movement energized and at the center of upcoming legislative battles.

September 23, 2009

BREITBART: The politicized art behind the ACORN plan

Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox rollout of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, "Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror."

September 21, 2009

Unhealthy rhetorical prescription

Some of President Obama's political and media allies are having a hard time coming to grips with what motivates his opponents - or understanding why their offensive has been so effective.

September 21, 2009

Debate rages over ‘tea party’ crowd size

A fierce numbers battle has erupted in the aftermath of Saturday's Capitol Hill rally by "tea party" conservatives that is about the size of the crowd.

September 17, 2009