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Donald Lambro is chief political correspondent for The Washington Times. Donald Lambro's twice-weekly column, which he has written since 1980, appears in newspapers nationwide. One of the most frequently quoted political reporters in Washington, Donald Lambro has interviewed most of the major political leaders of our time and has covered numerous presidential campaigns. Donald Lambro has written widely about the government, the economy and social issues, and won the 1995 Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Economic analyst and CNBC commentator Lawrence Kudlow has called Donald Lambro "the best political economic reporter in Washington today." Lambro earned a national reputation for his investigations into federal spending programs. The author of five books on government and economics, Donald Lambro wrote Land of Opportunity (Little Brown and Co.), an examination of economic growth and entrepreneurs in the 1980s. His FAT CITY: How Washington Wastes Your Taxes won national acclaim and the attention of President Reagan, who quoted from it during his 1980 presidential campaign and gave copies of the book to every member of his Cabinet.
Donald Lambro hosted and co-wrote the PBS documentaries "Inside The Republican Revolution" and "Star Spangled Spenders" and produced and moderated C-SPAN's "The Washington Times Forum." His commentaries have been heard on AP Radio and NPR, among others. A graduate of Boston University, Donald Lambro began his career as a reporter for The Boston Herald-Traveler and United Press International. His investigative series on federal spending programs, "Watching Washington," was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Donald Lambro was named the Heritage Foundation's Distinguished Journalism Fellow in 1981.
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Donald Lambro (May 25, 2012)
WASHINGTON - President Obama isn't doing so good in some of his party primaries where a surprisingly large number of Democrats are giving him the thumbs down.
Little... more
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Donald Lambro (May 25, 2012)
President Obama's anti-capitalism attacks on Mitt Romney's long career as an investor who bankrolled businesses and created jobs isn't playing well in some... more
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Donald Lambro (May 23, 2012)
WASHINGTON - President Obama's anti-capitalism attacks on Mitt
Romney's long career as an investor who bankrolled businesses and
created jobs isn't playing well in some... more
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Donald Lambro (May 18, 2012)
WASHINGTON - President Obama's budget deficit this year will hit $1.2 trillion, following three previous monster deficits of $1.3 trillion, $1.3 trillion and $1.4... more
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Donald Lambro (May 16, 2012)
WASHINGTON - President Obama is attacking Mitt Romney's job creation record when he headed a capital investment firm that turned failing companies and start-up... more
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Donald Lambro (May 11, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- President Obama sent a warmed-over, five-point "to-do list" to Congress this week that he said will create jobs and spur growth.
There was... more
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Donald Lambro (May 09, 2012)
WASHINGTON - It should be clear by now that President Obama is running against the U.S. economy and as of last week the economy was beating him.
A couple of weeks ago,... more
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Donald Lambro (May 04, 2012)
STANFORD, CALIF. - President Obama's bullish "new day on the horizon" speech in Kabul wasn't quite "mission accomplished" but he came close to that dubious claim.
The trip... more
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Donald Lambro (May 02, 2012)
STANFORD, CALIF. - There's a disconnect between the economy's relentless slowdown in the fourth year of Barack Obama's presidency and the sideshow issues he's raising on the... more
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Donald Lambro (Apr 27, 2012)
WASHINGTON - Somewhere between the New Frontier and the Age of Obama, the Democrats turned fiercely anti-capitalism, anti-business, anti-wealth and anti-success.
Fifty-two... more
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Donald Lambro (Apr 25, 2012)
WASHINGTON - President Obama has officially begun his 2012
campaign, telling special interest groups what the government will do
for them if he is re-elected to a second... more
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Donald Lambro (Apr 20, 2012)
WASHINGTON - It should be clear by now that Barack Obama will not be running for a second term based on his record over the past four years.
After presiding over the... more
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Donald Lambro (Apr 18, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- Remember all the pundits who warned that the poisonous Republican presidential primary battles threatened to divide the GOP and seriously weaken their... more
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Donald Lambro (Apr 13, 2012)
WASHINGTON - President Obama admitted this week that the "Buffett Rule," his plan to raise taxes on wealthier Americans, is "a... more
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Donald Lambro (Apr 11, 2012)
WASHINGTON - The sharp slowdown in hiring stunned President Obama's worried campaign strategists Friday, fueling deeper doubts about a second term.
The bleak jobs report... more
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Donald Lambro (Apr 06, 2012)
President Obama's all out class warfare attack against Republicans Tuesday was a shameful litany of excuses that included blaming all of his fiscal failures on George... more
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Donald Lambro (Apr 04, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's complaints about the Supreme Court's critical review of his health care law suggests that he has a real problem with the Constitution's... more
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Donald Lambro (Mar 30, 2012)
Joe Biden has begun attacking Mitt Romney's credentials on the economy -- the issue for which President Obama gets his worst marks in his job disapproval... more
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Donald Lambro (Mar 28, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's historic debate over the constitutionality of President Obama's unpopular health care law is all about economic freedom.That freedom has... more
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Donald Lambro (Mar 23, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- One gets the sense that voters are increasingly impatient with the GOP's seemingly interminable primary battles to choose a nominee who can beat President... more
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Donald Lambro (Mar 21, 2012)
WASHINGTON - The government's monstrous budget deficits continue
their meteoric rise under Barack Obama's big spending policies,
further threatening America's shaky... more
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Donald Lambro (Mar 16, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- Gas prices continue to soar, up to a national average of $3.81 a gallon in the past week, hitting a high of $4.35 per gallon in some parts of the... more
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Donald Lambro (Mar 14, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- The precipitous rise in Barack Obama's job disapproval numbers stunned the West Wing Monday and shook Democratic leaders. The president is getting failing... more
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Donald Lambro (Mar 09, 2012)
A Republican takeover of the Senate in November was about as close to a sure thing as it gets in today's politics. But now the contest could become a bit more... more
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Donald Lambro (Mar 07, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- At a time when Americans consider the lackluster Obama economy to be the No. 1 issue facing the country, Rick Santorum this week was suggesting that other... more
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Donald Lambro (Mar 02, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- President Obama may be getting great pleasure from the Republicans' lengthening battle over who can beat him in November. But he faces a much stronger... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 29, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- There's a simple, one-word answer to President Obama's latest lecture that "we can't drill our way" to lower gas prices: Baloney.But drilling for more... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 24, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- A presidential candidate's campaign rhetoric can tell us a lot about what he truly believes, but some of Rick Santorum's language has pushed that to the... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 22, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- An election-minded Congress defused the Social Security payroll tax cut issue last week, but a much more politically lethal time bomb is set to go off at the... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 17, 2012)
In the high stakes of political combat, perceptions can matter as much as, or more than, reality. Maybe that's why Barack Obama's numbers are creeping up in some... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 15, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- Two things you need to know about President Obama's nearly $4 trillion budget for fiscal year 2013: It will likely add another $1 trillion to a $15.3 trillion... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 15, 2012)
WASHINGTON - Two things you need to know about President Obama's
nearly $4 trillion budget for fiscal year 2013: It will likely add
another $1 trillion to a $15.3... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 10, 2012)
WASHINGTON - Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum is the
GOP's latest presidential "flavor of the month," propelled by his
party's large bloc of evangelical and... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 08, 2012)
WASHINGTON - President Obama seized upon last week's improved
jobs report as "more good news" on the economy, though the true
unemployment rate never made the headlines.... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 02, 2012)
WASHINGTON - The Congressional Budget Office gave us a forecast preview Wednesday of the frightening fiscal catastrophe that threatens to engulf the government in a sea of... more
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Donald Lambro (Feb 01, 2012)
WASHINGTON - The Republicans' presidential primary slugfest has
all of our attention right now, but the general election race is
really the more interesting story.
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Donald Lambro (Jan 27, 2012)
There was very little that was really new in the president's agenda-setting State of the Union address to the nation Tuesday. Since when is it new when... more
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Donald Lambro (Jan 25, 2012)
WASHINGTON - It should be clear by now that Newt Gingrich,
despite his denials, was lobbying for Freddie Mac, the home loan giant
at the core of the subprime mortgage... more
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Donald Lambro (Jan 20, 2012)
WASHINGTON - Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney estimates
the federal tax rate he pays on most of his income is about 15 percent
because it comes from his... more
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Donald Lambro (Jan 18, 2012)
WASHINGTON - President Obama's puny election year plan to
consolidate a handful of government agencies and programs is about
three years and $4 trillion too late.
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Donald Lambro (Jan 13, 2012)
You don't hear much about President Obama these days in the national news media because he isn't making very much news.
This is a presidency that appears to be... more
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Donald Lambro (Jan 11, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney is taking a lot of heat from his Republican rivals, who question just how successful he has really been in turning small businesses into major... more
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Donald Lambro (Jan 06, 2012)
There were two notable changes in the contest for
the presidency this week. Barack Obama's job approval score rose and
the race for the Republican nomination appears to... more
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Donald Lambro (Jan 04, 2012)
WASHINGTON - President Obama and his top campaign officials have
mapped out a new 2012 reelection strategy: run against an unpopular
Congress.
Obama, whose job... more