Donald Lambro

DONALD LAMBRO: GOP plan for economic growth can win the White House

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, is running for president on what he says are the biggest threats to our country's future: billionaires and corporate America.

May 7, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Hillary Clinton’s sinking popularity

There's an old, common-sense saying about never putting your eggs in one basket.

April 28, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Republican Congress gets to work

Anyone looking for signs that Barack Obama's presidency is running out of gas got a glimmer of hope this week from his daily schedule.

April 23, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Hillary Clinton campaign slowed by scandals

Nearly four months into the two-year presidential election cycle, Hillary Clinton is running into deep trouble on several major political fronts.

April 21, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Hillary Clinton in search of a cause

Hillary Clinton's slick campaign video announcing her candidacy for the presidency is being shot down as "insultingly vapid," vacuous and utterly "without substance." This is coming from her liberal friends, not from her Republican critics.

April 14, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Republicans should talk jobs to win White House

Why is it that many of the Republican presidential contenders are dodging issues the voters say are among their highest concerns?

April 9, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Defining the economic recovery down

In the seventh year of Barack Obama's administration, the economy is still getting failing grades that have been the hallmark of his trouble-filled presidency.

April 2, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Eliminate Export-Import Bank

It isn't drawing front-page coverage, but the Republicans' budget-cutting battle to abolish the Export-Import Bank deserves our attention and support.

March 31, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Hillary Clinton’s advantage

The latest CNN/ORC presidential poll shows that Hillary Clinton continues to lead all GOP contenders by wide margins.

March 26, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Fed keeps rates low in sign of faltering economy

You could almost see the assembled press corps' faces drop when the Fed's Open Market Committee said it wanted to see "further improvement" in the U.S. labor market before raising interest rates.

March 19, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: America needs a budget-cutting president

The candidate who wins the presidency in 2016 will be the one who vows to wage all-out war on a bloated, inefficient, corrupt government in need of a top-to-bottom, budget-cutting revolution.

March 17, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Hillary Clinton has no discouraging words about the Obama economy

Two years after leaving the State Department to run for president, Hillary Clinton has yet to say anything critical about the underperforming Obama economy.

March 12, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Obama’s crippled presidency

If someone were writing a book about America at this point in time, it should be titled "The Decline and Fall of Barack Obama's Presidency."

March 5, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Obama kills Keystone in ‘act of national insanity’

In the days leading up to President Obama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline, 14 oil tanker railroad cars derailed in West Virginia and exploded in a fiery environmental disaster.

February 26, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Obama messes with Texas, Vladimir Putin with Ukraine

President Obama's administration is coming apart at the seams this week on several domestic and foreign policy fronts that have drawn criticism from his earliest supporters.

February 19, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Early polls can’t predict GOP presidential candidate

The grueling political marathon for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination has begun, with three contenders out in front and everyone else far behind.

February 17, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Obama’s weak leadership empowers Putin, Islamic State

President Obama is taking his sweet time deciding if he will respond to Kiev's urgent pleas for help in the face of Russian advances into eastern Ukraine.

February 12, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Obama hides jobs failure by not counting long-term unemployed

For the past six years of the Obama economy, I've been telling readers that the administration has been juggling its job data to make the unemployment rates look much lower than they really are.

February 10, 2015

DONALD LAMBRO: Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and the Republican presidential field

The crowded race for the Republican 2016 presidential nomination has begun, and it promises to be a massive political assault on Barack Obama's failed presidency.

January 29, 2015