Here are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.

THE SIEGE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP does not end with an acquittal.  It will continue to November 3, 2020, and likely after his reelection.  Face it.  Despite his promises kept and the accomplishments he’s lead for America over the past three years, Democrats and their complicit media dislike the man.

Peggy Noonan, the elitist columnist for the Wall Street Journal, commenting on the trial, writes that “they (Republicans) will pay a high reputational price, and the president’s position will be further clouded, citing the line, ‘Sure he got off – in a rigged trial.’”

ONE EXAMPLE – A giddy Nancy Pelosi, during an appearance on the Bill Maher show, drew a loud applause from the liberal audience when she said, “Impeachment is forever, it cannot be erased.”  Hours earlier, she was somber and prayerful.

DEMOCRAT AMY KLOBUCHAR, interviewed following her losing vote in favor of witnesses Friday, said, “Americans don’t want a president who puts his personal interests above the country’s.”  How disingenuous.  Certainly, she knows better.

She fought against President Trump’s selection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.  She wasn’t satisfied with the Mueller Report, and demanded he appear before Congress.  When he did, and turned in a lackluster performance that reflected little knowledge of the content of his own report, she was silent.

Does anyone think she’s presidential timber?

IT’S SO MUCH FUN to watch the Dems eat their own.  After the vote Friday, there was Chuck Schumer, preparing to face the media with his glasses hanging on the end of his nose, when he suddenly turned to chasten Senator Kamala Harris, who was yucking it up with Sen. Sherrod Brown.  Evidently, she didn’t get the word that this was serious business.  She pulled a face of someone caught by a teacher for misbehaving, crossed her arms and gently elbowed Brown when Schumer turned away.  It was priceless.

OVER ON THE HOUSE SIDE, Nancy Pelosi said, “it’s a sad day for America to see Senator McConnell humiliate the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court into presiding over a vote which rejected our nation’s norms, precedents and institutions which uphold the Constitution and rule of law.”

That from the woman who said, “You cannot be acquitted if you don’t have a trial,  and you don’t have a trial if you don’t have witnesses and documentation.”

And, the same woman who said, “Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country.”

Not only did she agree to an impeachment with articles that were a stretch – hardly compelling and overwhelming – it was strictly partisan.  And, she allowed it to go the Senate without the witnesses they wanted (Bolton’s) because she had a timetable.

She and Schiff & Co. are the ones who have been humiliated.

Seemingly oblivious to the House’s withdrawal of the subpoena of Bolton, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan insists that “Bolton has key evidence and it cannot be justly ignored. It’s just that simple, history will condense it down to that.”

Noonan naively suggests that the president should waive executive privilege and make a great show of welcoming more testimony.

DAN HENINNGER, deputy editorial page director of the Wall Street Journal, appearing on the paper’s Journal Report on television Saturday, responded “yes” when asked if a Bolton tell-all book published prior to the presidential election could have an effect on the outcome for Trump.

Of course, it will be juicy excerpts by the media that will cause voters to choose between the man (Trump) who delivered on his promise to make American great again, and did so under extreme pressure by haters, and an advisor (Bolton) who became disgruntled with the man he thought he could manipulate.

Will Democrat voters recall the words critical of Apology Joe Biden in the book, “Duty,” by President Obama’s Secretary of Defense Robert Gates?

“I think he’s been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

That would include his years of service on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which was the basis for his selection as running mate by Obama, who had zero foreign policy experience.

In Gen. James Mattis’ book, “Call Sign Chaos,” he, too, was critical of Biden and the Obama administration.

ROMNEY’S AUDITION to became the first 2020 recipient of the late John “Thumbs Down” McCain’s “the party doesn’t matter” award wasn’t contested. Sen. Jeff “THE” Flake was the last recipient, awarded to any Republican who clearly puts himself over party and country.

Thanks to Matt Schlapp, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, who tweeted @mschapp: “The ‘extreme conservative’ and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, Mitt Romney, is formally NOT invited to CPAC 2020.”

I would note that I believe Schlapp meant to write “severe conservative,” the words Romney used to describe his ideological leaning in 2012.

PONDER THIS from Sean Spicer @sean_spicer: “We really should give the democrats a little credit … they’ve got thru 9 days of “The Pledge of Allegiance” without taking a knee.”

LAUGH OF THE DAY – When a group of students at St. Johns College at Oxford University wrote to Professor Andrew Parker to discuss demands being made by student protestors about fossil fuel divestment at the college, the professor responded with “I am not able to arrange any divestment on short notice, but I can arrange for the gas heating in college be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.”

Apparently the college, the richest in Oxford, has 8 million pounds of its 551-million-pound endowment fund invested in BP and Shell.

                   May God continue to bless the United State of America.