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

TWO LOSERS YUK IT UP while attacking President Trump … Stephanie Ruhle, one of the hosts on the loser leftist network MSNBC, and the losing Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris laugh while putting down the president.

Harris, who had  convinced herself that she, being a woman of color, could become the Democrat nominee and failed, was urged by Ruhle to attack the president over his use of the Defense Production Act and laughed together when Harris accused him of being an “abject failure.”

Never mind that Gallup reported 60 percent support for the president’s handling of the pandemic.

MEANWHILE, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll revealed President Trump’s approval at its highest ever, with majority approval of his handling of the pandemic.  Trump’s 51 percent approval for handling the virus was 10 percent higher than in the CNN poll three weeks earlier.

In addition, William A. Jacobson noted that the poll reflected “a 66 percent confidence in the federal government’s ability to handle the outbreak.”

HOWEVER, both ABC News and the Post played down any credit for the president. ABC reported: “Poll – Coronavirus impacts: Disrupted lives, rising stress and soaring worry.”  The Post – “Poll finds universal lifestyle changes, rising stress and growing fears about catching coronavirus.”  The bias continues.

AS I REPORTED EARLIER, the media wants the daily virus task force briefings to stop because they see them helping President Trump’s approval ratings.

IN THE MEANTIME, with their unsuccessful attack on President Trump over his handling of the virus outbreak, the media is now attacking Dr. Deborah Birx, the top health expert called in to provide her expertise to the president’s virus task force.

The media failed in its earlier attempt to stir up a controversy over an unsubstantiated story that the president had muzzled Dr. Anthony Fauci.

In a silly charge, someone in the media was upset that the president had referred to her simply as “Deborah” after calling her male counterpart “Doctor Fauci.”  This is going to happen in a free-flowing press briefing with president asking each of them to respond to a media inquiry, but leave it to the media to register concern.

The media’s primary attack on Dr. Birx came following one of her lengthy medical explanations regarding data on infections and estimated deaths.  They didn’t like her making the point that most of the horrifying potential outcomes are not materializing in real life at this point, and thought it important to help calm people down by pointing out this fact.

“The social media decided that because she wasn’t engaging in sufficiently alarmist pessimism, and was politely scolding the media and other naysayers, she’d gone in the tank for Trump,” wrote Guy Benson in Townhall.

“This is an extraordinary ridiculous and insulting accusation, given her profound expertise and long, impressive career spanning administrations of both political parties,” Benson commented.

“Dr. Birx has drunk the Kool Aid.” – Joe Lockhart, CNN, former Clinton press secretary

The attack on Dr. Birx will fail, too.  What will those important suburban women voters think about the Democrat attack on this accomplished woman who is at the forefront of Trump’s task force effort?

EASING THE VIRUS RESTRICTIONS is under consideration for counties across the nation.  In a letter to governors, the president said he was hoping to soon publish, in consultation with public-health officials and scientists, criteria for classifying counties by risk, in hopes that some parts of the country may be able to return top work sooner than others.

Dr. Deborah Birx has indicated that she wants to use a “laser-focused approach” to its social-distancing guidelines, but needs “very clear data” at the state and county level to be able to do so.

A Rasmussen Reports survey released on Friday revealed that 61 percent of Republicans share the president’s confidence that America can begin rolling back some of its precautions by Easter, the timeline he suggested.

At the same time, I understand that he is considering tighter guidelines, possibly city or region quarantines in so-called hotspots.

I’VE ABOUT HAD IT WITH the numbers being bandied about on the need for ventilators, respirators and masks. Excuse my skepticism, but I see an overreaction.

For days, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo complained that he requested ventilators, stating that he needed 40,000 of them.  But when he was told there 4,000 sitting in a New York warehouse, his fallback was that he was grateful that “they aren’t needed right now.”  Other states, too, are on record needing thousands of ventilators.  The president has ordered General Motors to produce 40,000 under a defense procurement act.

Then there’s the requests for millions of masks, especially the N95 mask.  The president asked 3M and Honeywell to up their production of masks. 3M has been producing 100 million masks a month since the virus outbreak, and announced this week that a half million masks have been sent to Seattle and New York City

Yesterday, I learned that the Service Employees Union located 39 million N95 masks and is making them available to state and local governments.  And, the United Nations in New York found 250,000 masks in storage and is making them available to New York City.

I figure there ought to be an N95 mask for every person in the United States at the rate they are producing them.

The same is true with the simpler cloth masks, that are now being produced by Hanes, the My Pillow folks, and others.

Hand sanitizer products cannot be found in drug stores today, but I have heard that a number of mini-breweries, and even Budweiser, have begun producing the stuff.

It all smells.

MICHIGAN’S GOVERNOR Gretchen Whittmer, in over her head in addressing the effect of the virus outbreak in her state, made a mistake by attacking President Trump.  You would think she would have followed the crisis relationships developed by California’s Gavin Newsom and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, normally arch enemies of Trump, who are now working together.

In Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger’s piece, “Trump’s Leadership,” he wrote of Trump’s path to presidential greatness may begin by doing something small, pointing out that Governor Cuomo has a job to do.  “Help him.”  Trump has done just that and the rhetoric has subsided measurably.

While Trump jokingly told Vice President Pence not to call “that woman in Michigan” anymore, I understand the Veep called her Saturday in an effort to assist her. She needs Trump’s help, and he needs Michigan support in November.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP – New York Democrat Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez complained that the $2 trillion in direct payments will go only to taxpayers with social security numbers.  She wanted payments to go to those living illegally in the U.S.

                    May God continue to bless the United States of America.