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Donald Lambro

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Donald Lambro was a columnist for The Washington Times.

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GOP hits Democrats over ‘scandals’

It is payback time for Republicans, who have been burying Democrats in a blizzard of attacks about a "pay-to-play" scandal that has embarrassed and distracted Barack Obama's presidential transition and tax-evasion charges against a powerful political ally in the House.

December 14, 2008

LAMBRO: Stimulus road to nowhere?

Barack Obama's massive infrastructure spending plan to jump-start the economy isn't being criticized just by conservative critics. His chief economic adviser once called the idea one of the "less effective options" the president-elect is now promoting.

December 11, 2008

GOP divided on backing auto aid

Conservative activists befuddled by the mounting bailouts doubt that Capitol Hill Republicans, still smarting from electoral defeats, can muster the courage to turn back the Big Three.

December 11, 2008

BREITBART: I believe Hillary’s cardboard cutout

At the exact moment Jon Favreau is receiving high praise in pre-inaugural media puff pieces, the 27-year-old chief speechwriter for President-elect Barack Obama (not Jon Favreau, the Hollywood actor/ director) finds himself in a minor mess over a photo from a recent private party showing him groping the breast of a cardboard cutout of Hillary Rodham Clinton as an unnamed pal wearing an "Obama staff" T-shirt kisses and feeds her beer.

December 8, 2008

Critics doubt stimulus will ‘jolt’ economy

Top economists say that President-elect Barack Obama's plan to jump-start the economy with a big spending program to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, among other initiatives, is doomed to fail.

December 7, 2008

LAMBRO: Cabinet cachet

President-elect Barack Obama had to sign a lot of prenuptial agreements before he was able to put together the national security team he announced this week.

December 4, 2008

BREITBART: Six degrees of Imran Khan

On the evening of Nov. 26, the biggest names in Bollywood walked the red carpet at the Bombay premiere of "The President Is Coming," a comedy about six 20-somethings vying to win the right to shake hands with President Bush.

December 1, 2008

LAMBRO: Obama needs to be flexible

As America fell deeper into the Great Depression after the 1932 presidential election, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted nothing to do with Herbert Hoover's economic recovery efforts.

December 1, 2008

LAMBRO: Stimulus redux?

Most of Barack Obama's economic-stimulus plan is beginning to look like the public-works jobs programs Franklin D. Roosevelt tried 75 years ago in the Great Depression.

November 27, 2008

BREITBART: The kids are all right

As the Republican blame game and political infighting rages with no end in sight, here's an unorthodox fast-track plan for a full-scale GOP recovery in 2010.

November 24, 2008

GOP aims for new economic agenda

Republican leaders say they will have to reshape their economic agenda and message if they are to regain the majority in Congress, and they are getting plenty of advice about how to do just that.

November 23, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Shultz: Bush defense policy should stay

Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz says President-elect Barack Obama should practice President Bush's doctrine of pre-emptive defense against terrorism that has kept the country safe since the Sept. 11 attacks.

November 18, 2008

LAMBRO: Pages from Reagan’s playbook

Ronald Reagan's legacy is being kept very much alive here at a time when Republicans have lost their way and are looking for a new voice to lead them out of the political wilderness.

November 17, 2008

LAMBRO: Obama’s stimulus plan won’t save economy

The U.S. economy is shrinking, unemployment is the highest since 1994, manufacturing is at its lowest point in 26 years - and Barack Obama is pushing a stimulus bill to rebuild bridges and roads.

November 13, 2008

BREITBART: Obama voters conciliatory

A week after the Obama victory celebration in Grant Park, some exultant liberal victors are seeking to make Thanksgiving 2008 a joyful all-inclusive family experience for the first time since President Bush took office nearly eight years ago.

November 10, 2008

LAMBRO: Warning to Democrats

Within hours of Barack Obama's historic election last week, a chorus of media analysts were predicting that the Democrats had at last built a permanent majority that would keep them in power for many elections to come.

November 10, 2008

Era of Democratic rule not a given with Obama victory

Barack Obama is heading to the White House and his party has tightened its grip on Congress, but election and public policy analysts say this doesn't necessarily mean a prolonged era of Democratic rule.

November 7, 2008