Donald Lambro

McCain plan to buy bad home mortgages hit

Sen. John McCain's $300 billion plan to buy up all bad home mortgages and refinance them at a lower fixed rate came under fire Wednesday from economists on the left and the right who said his idea was a redundant, unworkable, costly scheme that would plunge taxpayers deeper into debt.

October 9, 2008

LAMBRO: McCain confronts the crisis

The number of Republican Red states where Barack Obama leads is growing, reducing the states in play and thus cutting into electoral votes needed for a John McCain win in November.

October 9, 2008

GOP strategists: Attack Obama hard

John McCain and Barack Obama slug it out again (tonight, 9 p.m. EST) at a showdown debate in McCain's favored town-hall setting, which gives him his best chance to jump-start his sputtering campaign.

October 7, 2008

LAMBRO: How McCain can win

When the economic-rescue plan was moving toward passage in the Senate last week, Sen. Barack Obama's lead in the polls already was shrinking, and a Republican tax cutter was questioning his proposals to raise taxes on a weak economy.

October 6, 2008

Obama gains in red states

For months, Barack Obama has been leading in a handful of traditionally Republican "red" states and now appears to have gained the edge in two more -- Florida and Ohio -- since the first presidential debate.

October 5, 2008

McCain scales back in Michigan

Republican Sen. John McCain's campaign said Thursday that he has scuttled most of his campaign for Michigan and is shifting people and resources to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, reshuffling his efforts amid falling poll numbers.

October 3, 2008

LAMBRO: Crisis capitulation

Monday's House vote to kill the bipartisan economic rescue plan was a stunning profile in cowardice, disregarding a mountain of evidence that the U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of the worst calamity since 1929.

October 2, 2008

BREITBART: Lose global warming now

Sadly, while John McCain and Barack Obama drone on about some financial-bailout plan and a war in a very, very hot place, the No. 1 issue facing our planet is being completely ignored by the two presidential contenders.

September 29, 2008

LAMBRO: Subprime mortgage suspects

There is no more insidious myth than the notion that the subprime-mortgage debacle began on Wall Street and that predatory capitalism was responsible for the whole blooming mess.

September 29, 2008

Bailout plan splits free-market backers

Free-market advocates are split over the Bush administration's economic-rescue plan, between those who say let debt-ridden businesses fail and those who warn of a deep recession if government doesn't bail them out.

September 28, 2008

LAMBRO: Bailout balance sheet

The economic rescue plan to buy up bad mortgages and other illiquid assets will push the government's debt to more than $11 trillion next year — making major new spending initiatives problematic, if not impossible.

September 25, 2008

BREITBART: Enough is enough

With George Bush off the front pages for much of the last few months, the political pathology known as Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) took an unexpected summer hiatus.

September 22, 2008

ANALYSIS: Bailout plan costliest rescue in U.S. history

The administration's plan to buy up bad mortgages will be the costliest rescue in U.S. history, pushing the annual budget deficit to $700B and preventing the next president from making good on campaign promises.

September 21, 2008

Conservatives rip bailouts as affront

The Federal Reserve's unprecedented $85 billion takeover of American International Group is prompting a fierce backlash among many Republican stalwarts.

September 18, 2008

LAMBRO: Gun control target practice

Gun control has suddenly emerged as the toxic issue of the 2008 presidential campaign, endangering Barack Obama's appeal among Democratic blue-collar and labor union households.

September 18, 2008

Gunning for victory risky for Obama

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama's hopes for carrying Montana have diminished over the past few months, and Montanans say it comes down to one word: guns.

September 16, 2008

BREITBART: ‘Bad Will Hunting’

Matt Damon is scared. Last week his e-mail runneth over with nasty Sarah Palin rumors. And before he could get his facts straight, the "Bourne" film series star and Barack Obama supporter spread false fears in a hysterical video that immediately went viral on the Internet.

September 15, 2008

LAMBRO: Bullish on America

Nightly news coverage of the economy has been a little like reporting the strikes and outs in a baseball game, while ignoring the hits, runs and double plays.

September 15, 2008

Obama backs off 50-state strategy against McCain

Barack Obama is pulling back from his 50-state plan as John McCain has solidified Republican support, turning November's presidential election into a contest for the same handful of states that have swung the last two contests.

September 12, 2008

LAMBRO: Reshuffled deck

John McCain came out of his convention with a big bounce, racing ahead of Barack Obama by 10 points among likely voters, while running-mate Sarah Palin's feisty attack on their rivals has energized the GOP with an 18-point jump in enthusiasm.

September 11, 2008