Donald Lambro

LAMBRO: Hopes dashed for economic turnaround

If President Obama ever expected the economy to improve significantly before the 2012 election, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke buried that hope last week.

November 4, 2011

LAMBRO: Shining spotlight on solar panel bankruptcy

The White House's half-billion-dollar loan to a now-bankrupt solar-energy firm is just the first act in an emerging scandal of insider political influence over a deeply flawed clean energy program.

November 1, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama’s housing horrors

President Obama flew to Las Vegas on Monday to talk with distressed homeowners and see Nevada's 13.4 percent unemployment first-hand. While he was there, he had lunch at the lavish Bellagio hotel and casino with 300 very rich people who gave him checks of $1,000 to $35,800 for his re-election campaign.

October 25, 2011

LAMBRO: Supercommittee’s insuperable timidity

In a budget nearing $4 trillion a year, it strains credulity to hear members of the deficit supercommittee say they're still no closer to finding $1.2 trillion in savings over the next decade.

October 20, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama losing party support

President Obama was back on his bus this week, promoting yet another jobs bill in the diminishing hope that it might help him hang on to his own. Just days after the Democrat-controlled Senate failed to muster enough support just to make his bill the pending business, he was venting in North Carolina, threatening Republicans and blaming Wall Street again for America's unending recession, for which he accepts no responsibility.

October 18, 2011

LAMBRO: Cain’s ‘9-9-9’ plan is a no-no

At a time when the American left is beating its war drums to raise taxes on "the rich," Herman Cain wants to slash their income-tax rates to 9 percent.

October 13, 2011

LAMBRO: Dark delusions of Wall Street protesters

The angry, youth-driven, anti-capitalism protests begun in New York City a few weeks ago are the latest manifestation of President Obama's lengthening recession.

October 4, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama spikes his base

A rattled tone of desperation has taken hold of President Obama's once-self-confident rhetoric as he struggles to rally his party's dispirited political base.

September 27, 2011

LAMBRO: Pied Piper of wealth redistribution

What if Barack Obama had begun his presidency by enacting a permanent tax-cut bill that further lowered income tax rates, cut the capital gains rate in half and reduced business taxes across the board?

September 22, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama digs up dead tax hikes

Once again, Barack Obama proposes to raise job-killing taxes on a weakening economy, one that has all but stopped growing under his 1930s-style policies.

September 20, 2011

LAMBRO: Mounting White House woes

Barack Obama's troubled presidency was hit hard again this week on several fronts that shook the White House and raised fears in his party of deeper losses in Congress next year.

September 15, 2011

LAMBRO: Another White House whiff

President Obama's latest swing of the bat to get the economy growing again looked a lot like his previous attempts when he couldn't come through with a base hit.

September 13, 2011

LAMBRO: Congressional polls give GOP inside track

I'm always amused by the national news-media polls showing that few Americans like the job Republicans are doing in Congress, as if this is somehow a precursor to the outcome of the 2012 House and Senate elections.

September 9, 2011

LAMBRO: Taxing time for business

When a heckler at the Iowa State Fair told Mitt Romney that raising taxes on corporations was one way to solve America's fiscal and economic problems, the former governor shot back: "Corporations are people, my friend."

August 25, 2011

LAMBRO: Obamacare already dying

The federal appeals court ruling that struck down the centerpiece of Obamacare has dealt a massive, possibly fatal blow to the government-imposed health care system passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress over bitter public opposition.

August 23, 2011

LAMBRO: Obama follies bus tour

Things aren't going well for President Obama these days. A U.S. appeals court struck down a key mandate in his health care law to force uninsured Americans to purchase medical coverage. The economy is tilting toward a recession amid rising unemployment. His job-approval score fell to a new low of 39 percent last week.

August 16, 2011

LAMBRO: Economy weakening week after week

The American economy, for some inexplicable reason, has been pushed to the sidelines in the fierce debate over a fiscal crisis that threatens to shut down much of the government.

July 28, 2011

LAMBRO: Artful dodger Obama

President Obama's job approval score sank to nearly 40 percent this week in the midst of a budget and debt-limit crisis that threatens to further weaken our economy and America's future.

July 21, 2011

LAMBRO: Taming the deficit monster

There have been many attempts to slay the deficit monster that lurks in the appropriations committee rooms of Congress, only to see it return to life more menacing than ever.

July 19, 2011

LAMBRO: Michele Bachmann’s moment

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has singularly achieved what most of her colleagues only dream of doing but never will: Breaking out of the anonymity of 435 House members to become a national political figure in her own right and a candidate for the presidency.

June 28, 2011