Donald Lambro

LAMBRO: Leveraging taxes with sequestration

President Obama was back on the campaign trail Tuesday, preaching doom and gloom over the approaching budget cuts that will likely take place in March.

February 27, 2013

LAMBRO: Obama’s duct-tape economic plan

President Obama's second-term wish list to jump-start his stalled, job-starved economy looked a lot like his warmed-over, half-baked proposals of the past.

February 15, 2013

LAMBRO: Treating terrible economy with higher taxes

The definition of a failed, spendthrift, debt-producing fiscal policy is making the same proposals over and over again and expecting a different result.

February 13, 2013

LAMBRO: Jobs are not Job One for Obama

The jobless rate has risen to nearly 8 percent, economic growth has screeched to a halt, and there's grumbling among President Obama's most loyal voters about 14 percent black unemployment.

February 6, 2013

LAMBRO: Republicans romping down-ticket

Ever since President Obama won re-election, the news media and their pundits want us to think the Republican Party is in steep decline.

January 30, 2013

LAMBRO: Making budget risk personal

House Republican leaders seized the high ground this week in the continuing battle to rein in spending, forcing Senate Democrats to produce their first budget in nearly four years.

January 25, 2013

LAMBRO: ‘Obama unbound’

If you thought President Obama's first term was one long, uninterrupted political brawl, the next four years will make that period look tame by comparison.

January 23, 2013

LAMBRO: Surreal world of Obama tax hikes

Let's be clear about what the "fiscal cliff" deal does and doesn't do.

January 3, 2013

LAMBRO: Passing grade for ‘Plan B’

The dizzying budgetary roller coaster careened closer to the "fiscal cliff" this week when House Speaker John A. Boehner tossed a new "Plan B" into negotiations with the White House.

December 20, 2012

LAMBRO: Before the next school massacre

They've begun burying the 20 children in the bucolic New England town of Newtown, Conn., this week -- beautiful, innocent kids killed by a psychotic 20-year-old gunman.

December 18, 2012

LAMBRO: Recovery mirage

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Obama economy is in a single sentence about the Federal Reserve Board's latest attempts this week to deal with unacceptably high unemployment.

December 13, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama fat cats slink from tax hikes

Did you see the story about Costco borrowing $3.5 billion to pay a special $7 a share dividend to its stockholders before year's end to avoid being hit by President Obama's higher capital gains tax?

December 11, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama would inflict pain with no gain

President Obama often boils down the issues around his plan to raise income taxes by saying it's all about the "math," a subject he doesn't seem to know much about.

December 6, 2012

LAMBRO: White House Scrooge

President Obama would have failed Negotiations 101. If there was such a course, the first rule would be "do not insult the people you're dealing with."

December 4, 2012

LAMBRO: Obama’s ‘Age of Uncertainty’

It is clear by now that President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner are not going to work out a full-blown deal on taxes, spending and entitlements by the end of this month.

November 29, 2012

LAMBRO: Silver lining to GOP’s gloomy performance

Although Barack Obama won a second term and Democrats gained some seats in Congress, the Republicans remain a considerable force to be reckoned with in the 2013-14 election cycle and beyond.

November 22, 2012

LAMBRO: Suppressing Benghazi truth for Election Day advantage

One of President Obama's national security boasts in the 2012 presidential election was that al Qaeda's ranks have been "decimated," they're "on the run" and "on the path to defeat."

November 20, 2012