Donald Lambro

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. Published June 23, 2011

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. Published June 9, 2011

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. Published June 7, 2011

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. Published June 2, 2011

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. Published May 26, 2011

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. Published May 17, 2011

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. Published May 12, 2011

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. Published May 5, 2011

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. Published April 21, 2011

LAMBRO: Mr. President, a scalpel won’t do the job

House Speaker John A. Boehner extracted more budget concessions from President Obama and the Democrats than was at first evident when the deal was announced last week. Published April 12, 2011

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. Published April 7, 2011

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." Published March 22, 2011

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. Published March 17, 2011

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. Published February 22, 2011

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. Published February 17, 2011

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. Published February 15, 2011