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Donald Lambro was a columnist for The Washington Times.

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LAMBRO: Obama could sink with capsizing economy

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's lower economic growth estimates for this year and next diminishes President Obama's already weakened prospects for a second term.

June 23, 2011
Illustration: Obama ideas

LAMBRO: Back to the White House drawing board

President Obama broke his silence this week on the precipitous decline in job creation, saying he's not happy with the unemployment rate and, by the way, the economy's troubles began in George W. Bush's administration.

June 9, 2011
Illustration: Economic mayday by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Mayday over May unemployment

President Obama went to Toledo on Friday to boast about his "economic recovery," but didn't say a word about that morning's grim unemployment report showing only 54,000 jobs were created in May.

June 7, 2011
Illustration by Mark Weber

LAMBRO: GOP draws a line in the loot

This week's House vote against raising the debt limit was a long-overdue, fist-shaking declaration of public outrage at the runaway spending that endangers America's economic security.

June 2, 2011
Rep. Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, has proposed cutting $6.2 trillion in government spending over the next decade as a start to dealing with the national debt. The plan relies on repealing the year-old health care law and deep cuts in Medicaid. (AP Photo)

LAMBRO: Medicare demagoguery backfire

If the Democrats are counting on making a comeback in the 2012 elections by demagoguing the Republican Medicare reforms, they had better think again. The No. 1 political issue for the remainder of this year and most likely in 2012 will be the lackluster, persistently high-unemployment Obama economy, which Republicans will nail to Democrats' hides from Maine to California.

May 26, 2011
Illustration by Paul Tong

LAMBRO: Survival of the fittest GOP candidates

Seventeen months before Americans go to the polls to elect their next president, the field of Republican candidates is rapidly being winnowed down to its strongest contenders.

May 17, 2011
Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner

LAMBRO: Debt limit showdown looms

The debt limit battle is heating up, the second of three 2011 heavyweight budget fights that could have a major impact on the 2012 presidential election. The national debt will near its statutory limit of $14.3 trillion next week unless Congress allows the Treasury to continue borrowing enough money to pay the government's bills. House Speaker John A. Boehner said Monday that Republicans will agree only if President Obama and congressional Democrats agree to major budget reductions with no tax increases.

May 12, 2011
Illustration: Trillion dollar man by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Trillion-dollar Obama

There are two fundamental things that need to be done to restore America's economy to its former health: reduce government spending and thus shrink its debt, and increase federal tax revenues by boosting economic growth, new business formation and job creation.

May 5, 2011
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi greets supporters in Tripoli on Sunday as envoys from the African Union, including South African President Jacob Zuma, arrived for two days of talks with Col. Gadhafi and rebel leaders. The African Union repeated its call for a cease-fire. (Associated Press)

LAMBRO: Obama’s Libyan dalliance

President Obama seems to have trouble giving the Libyan rebels what they need most in their life-and-death struggle to topple Col. Moammar Gadhafi's repressive dictatorship: weapons.

April 21, 2011
Illustration by Mark Ryder

LAMBRO: Recovery in jeopardy

Americans are getting hit on all fronts nowadays. Wages are flat or falling. Income-tax bills are due by April 18. Food prices are rising. And gas prices that are soaring toward $4 a gallon now threaten to reverse the nation's economic-growth rate.

April 7, 2011
Illustration: Gen. Obama

LAMBRO: Bringing a Tomahawk to a gunfight

In the first two years of his tutorial presidency, Barack Obama replaced Teddy Roosevelt's well-advised admonition to "speak softly and carry a big stick" with "be friendly and carry an olive branch."

March 22, 2011
Illustration: Idle wrench by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Economy stumbles over unemployment

The unemployment numbers came out last week, but they were not the nationwide 8.9 percent average that was announced with much hoopla earlier this month and captured all of the headlines.

March 17, 2011
Illustration: NPR faces budget axe by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

LAMBRO: GOP takes a cut at budget behemoth

There's no chance the Senate is going to take up last week's House Republican budget cuts, yet it sent a loud, clear, muscular message to the other side of the Capitol that the Obama Democrats' spending-binge days are over.

February 22, 2011
MOVERS: Republican leaders in the House leave a luncheon with President Obama on Wednesday. From left are: Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia. They discussed spending and the national debt. (Associated Press)

LAMBRO: A messy House

House Speaker John A. Boehner has reintroduced a welcome if sometimes messy change in what once was known as "the people's House": the right to amend pending legislation.

February 17, 2011
President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

LAMBRO: New budget assault on reality

The Obama administration seems to have a serious problem with its hearing or its memory, possibly both. In November, the voters said loud and clear that government is too big and spends too much, but 3 1/2 months later, the White House has forgotten that midterm election message.

February 15, 2011
Illustration: Obama's Sputnik moment by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Big talk, small ideas

For millions of unemployed American workers, President Obama's State of the Union proposals offered little hope that they were going to find a job anytime soon.

January 27, 2011
** FILE ** General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt looks on as President Obama speaks at a round-table discussion with business leaders in Mumbai, India, on Nov. 6, 2010. Mr. Obama is restructuring his economic advisory board and naming Mr. Immelt as it new head. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

LAMBRO: Obama’s reform reversal

Over the past two years, President Obama has blamed big banks, Wall Street, corporate executives, trade deals, tax cuts and deregulation for all the nation's ills while presiding over $3.4 trillion in additional debt.

January 25, 2011
** FILE ** In this July 27, 2004, file photo, Ron Reagan, son former President Ronald Reagan, talks about stem cell research to the delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Ronald Reagan's son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease while he was still in the White House, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

LAMBRO: Misreading Reagan

President Reagan's son Ron has written a book that unfairly, and without any evidence, questions his father's mental capacity in the early to middle years of his presidency.

January 18, 2011