Quick take on the news, 2/4/26

  Judicial coup posts

1) Townhall post --- The Judicial coup continues judge blocks ice from using tear gas on leftist agitators in Portland,

2) Zero-Hedge Boasberg,

3) Editorial on PowerLine blog: Comment: Yet GOP voters are heap big mad at Trump--why??? You can't show up for important special elections when a narrow majority in Congress is on the line?  That one is on the voters AND the party.  They keep letting Democrats off the hook.   This should cost Democrats, but instead they get rewarded for outrageous behavior.  All because the party and the people cannot stay on target.,

4) PowerLine post which shows things may not be THAT bad:

5) My reaction to all this:  Why should we LOSE the message war when all the facts, and all the potential benefits should argue that we should win BIG TIME, and

6) Here's another way of putting it:  If you let the Democrats back in, then you shoot yourselves in the foot.  But perhaps there are those who would prefer a WAR.  Maybe that's what it would take, but you MAY be able to avoid that. Indeed, everything possible should be done in order to prevent that.   A war is what the Dems want.  Why give it to them?