Donald Lambro

BREITBART: Online activists on the right, unite!

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.

March 30, 2009

LAMBRO: Choking on ‘green’ legislation

President Obama's anti-oil cap-and-trade legislation that would effectively levy a carbon-emissions tax on businesses and on all Americans will likely be one of the first casualties of his liberal agenda.

March 30, 2009

LAMBRO: Will investors buy in?

This week's $1 trillion question is whether Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner's public-private bank bailout plan will lure enough investors into buying up bad assets to end the nation's lending paralysis.

March 26, 2009

Obama’s ratings slip with analysts

Analysts from Wall Street to liberal think tanks in Washington are giving President Obama generally critical to incomplete grades for his performance thus far, faulting him for being distracted by populist sideshow issues such as the controversy over executive bonuses and not focusing more on the central issues of rebuilding confidence in the economy.

March 24, 2009

Geithner: ‘We are not Sweden’

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Monday that the administration decided on its public-private plan to rescue the U.S. financial system because "we are not Sweden," the country known for nationalizing troubled banks and other sectors of its economy.

March 23, 2009

LAMBRO: Damaged brand with prospects

The Republican brand is badly damaged and won't be in the majority anytime soon. But independent campaign analysts say the GOP will likely make gubernatorial and House gains anyway in the 2009-10 election cycle.

March 23, 2009

BREITBART: Dreaming of President Petraeus and an American surge

Signs of our collective weakness emerged after 9/11 when only part of the American population took seriously that we were at war with an evil and motivated enemy determined to destroy our way of life. Since then, al Qaeda has refused to quit despite debilitating losses.

March 23, 2009

LAMBRO: Dow … down and up

Barack Obama is learning a psychological lesson from a former president about the economy and what happens when you keep comparing it to the Great Depression.

March 19, 2009

BREITBART: ‘My Real Time With Bill Maher’

Pretty much everyone I respect in media and politics recommended I not go on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher." But on Friday night, I defied that wisdom and had the time of my life.

March 16, 2009

LAMBRO: Special projects still singled out

When President Obama boasted that there wasn't "a single pet project" or "single earmark" in his economic-stimulus bill, he was using a slightly different definition of pork-barrel spending.

March 16, 2009

Obama vows support for free markets

President Obama told executives of big business last week that he believed in free-market economics, capitalist risk-taking, wealth creation and possibly lower corporate taxes - terms he rarely, if ever, uttered in his stump speeches for the presidency.

March 15, 2009

LAMBRO: Abyss could deepen again

A deepening pessimism is taking root in the American economy as joblessness rises inexorably toward 9 percent, businesses are failing, U.S. exports have tanked and Wall Street is in a depression.

March 12, 2009

BREITBART: The Hollywood awards show not shown on TV

After spending two weeks on something akin to a fact-finding mission in depressed New York and depleted Washington, D.C., I found no answers to our nation's mounting ills.

March 9, 2009

LAMBRO: Tracking the fallout

Little by little, as the U.S. economy falls deeper into the recession, President Obama and his top White House staff are beginning to make political mistakes.

March 9, 2009

Obama faulted as indifferent on stocks

Some Wall Street economists think President Obama could have voiced some sympathy about the plight of frightened shareholders when he compared the stock market's plunge to an election tracking poll that "bobs up and down, day to day."

March 8, 2009

LAMBRO: Budgeting against growth

President Obama's big spending 2010 budget is filled with tax provisions that will stunt economic growth, job creation and new business formation.

March 5, 2009

BREITBART: Rush to judgment: A media hopelessly divided

The mood at the Omni Shoreham Hotel late Saturday afternoon was off the electrical meter when Rush Limbaugh took center stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

March 2, 2009

LAMBRO: Earmark repository

Nine thousand pork barrel earmarks were buried in the $410 billion omnibus budget that passed the House last week - giving bureaucrats 9 percent more money to spend in the remainder of this fiscal year.

March 2, 2009

LAMBRO: Obama’s budget to raise small-business taxes

President Obama's proposed budget reopens political battles on two key fronts - higher income Americans and small businesses who will be hit hard by higher taxes, and the health care industry that will see deep cuts in government medical payments.

February 27, 2009

Republicans find the road back to conservatism

Conservative Republicans are getting back to basics this year after eight years of big-spending government that tarnished their brand name, eroded their base and toppled their party from majority rule in Congress.

February 27, 2009