Donald Lambro

LAMBRO: Obama’s deft and misleading tax-cut plan

Those who think conservatism is dead need to look at how Barack Obama skillfully played the tax cut issue like a Stradivarius.

November 6, 2008

Economy turns voters left, but may delay agenda

America took a sharp left turn Tuesday with the election of Barack Obama and a more liberal Congress, voting for a change in the economy's direction, U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq and a nationwide system for affordable health care.

November 5, 2008

BREITBART: An Election Day Note: Thanks, President Bush

I have a dark secret to tell before the election so that it's on the record. It's something that is difficult to say to certain friends, peers, family and, lately, many fellow conservatives.

November 3, 2008

Obama camp changes tax-cut beneficiaries

Barack Obama's middle-class rescue plan is turning into the incredible shrinking tax cut because its original beneficiaries have been reduced in the past few months from taxpayers making less than $250,000 to those earning much less.

November 2, 2008

McCain targets Obama’s plans to cut spending

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is taking aim at his rival party's plans to cut military spending, which Sen. Barack Obama details in a 2007 video making its way around the Web.

October 31, 2008

LAMBRO: The test this time

Joe Biden uttered a rare bit of campaign candor the other day when he told us what we should expect in the first six months of Barack Obama's presidency: an international crisis.

October 30, 2008

LAMBRO: Bank on U.S. bouncing back

The bad news is that the economy probably contracted in the third quarter and will likely shrink further in the fourth, plunging the country into a sharp recession.

October 27, 2008

BREITBART: ‘Obama: The Feel-Good Blockbuster of the Election Season!’

If on the evening of Nov. 4, joyous news anchors finally get to declare Sen. Barack Obama the president-elect of the United States, Michael Barone's county-by-county postmortem will matter less in assessing the GOP's grand old problems than the analysis provided by Ad Age and Daily Variety.

October 27, 2008

New president must be ‘nimble’ on economy fixes

The biggest challenge facing the next president will be figuring out how to lead a debt-plagued economy out of its recession, create millions of new jobs and restore America's shattered confidence in its financial institutions.

October 25, 2008

LAMBRO: A shearing, not a sharing

Barack Obama, who became rich with his best-selling books, seems to have a problem with wealth creation. It isn't in his lexicon, it isn't on his agenda, and it isn't in his campaign message.

October 23, 2008

McCain, Obama remain sketchy on deficit

As much as the war on terror and the economy, the ballooning federal deficit is a certainty the next president will have to face, and plenty of public-interest groups are eager to help the evasive candidates apply the scalpel or hatchet where need be.

October 21, 2008

BREITBART: Plumber Joe vs. Brawler Josh

With just over two weeks to go before the election, Oliver Stone and distributor Lion's Gate Films successfully detonated "W." in more than 2,000 U.S. theaters with the intent to exact electoral damage on John McCain and the Republican Party.

October 20, 2008

LAMBRO: Democrat deluge in Hill forecast

Democratic majorities in Congress will become a lot bigger in January, as Americans are expected to vote based on their economic fears and frustrations on Nov. 4.

October 20, 2008

Joe exposes candidates’ sharp divisions

John McCain and Barack Obama have starkly different views on taxes, just ask Joe the Plumber.

October 17, 2008

Voter ire threatens GOP seats

A fast-growing anti-Republican wave threatens to significantly shrink the party's ranks in Congress, as Democratic challengers make headway against once safe incumbents including the Senate's minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

October 16, 2008

LAMBRO: Tax-relief fiction

Barack Obama has a disturbing habit of saying things that are not true, such as no one who makes less than $250,000 will pay higher taxes under his tax plans.

October 16, 2008

McCain seeks to cut capital gains tax

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain proposed a more-expansive economic recovery plan Tuesday that would slash the capital gains tax, suspend taxes on unemployment benefits and guarantee 100 percent of all savings to boost confidence in the banking system.

October 15, 2008

Obama tax cut ‘refunds’ those who don’t pay

Sen. Obama says he will give 95 percent of all American workers a tax cut but does not mention that his plan would send checks to tens of millions of tax filers who pay no personal income taxes.

October 13, 2008

BREITBART: Obama High: No child left benign

Elected officials in Chicago made international news last week by proposing to create a public high school for gay, lesbian and transgender students.

October 13, 2008

LAMBRO: Glimmers of economic hope

As bleak as things look right now, there are reasons to believe we may get through this economic decline sooner than the pessimists' predictions of one to two years.

October 13, 2008