Hey Fisher, stay classy!

Ok, so since VY got put on "injured reserve", the Titans haven't won a game. In the last game, Randy moss had zero attempts go his way.

As for Moss, his snaps were significantly reduced. He didn’t enter the game until the 5-minute mark of the second quarter. He didn’t have a catch — he wasn’t even thrown to, in fact, despite chants of “Randy, Randy, Randy” from the LP Field crowd.

Vince has kept his mouth shut while enduring crap like this:

"I went to look for Vince in the locker room prior to a team meeting, couldn't find him. I had one of my assistants inform Vince he was not welcome in the team meeting for obvious reasons," Fisher said Tuesday night on his weekly radio show. "I discussed the situation that happened the night before" at the meeting.

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"We had an incident in the locker room, and it was very unfortunate. It's been well documented,"

and this:

After saying that Fisher doesn’t know where Young is and that he hasn’t seen Young since he left the locker room in a huff after a November loss to the Redskins, Fisher said that “the locker room is much better because of [Young's] actions after the game.”

Fisher explained that “to a man” Young’s teammates disagreed with his actions. “He’s probably better off not being here,” Fisher said.

Meanwhile,

In the first half, Britt wore a white towel with #10 VY written on it in black ink, a reference to quarterback Vince Young, who is on injured reserve.

Fisher has been undermining VY since day 1. He wanted Matt "lighting up the league" Leinart, even hired his OC from USC. A lot has been made of Vince's lack of mental toughness, but I think he's done fine since he walked into a situation where some washed up, never was champion was waiting to see him fail. Add to that the fact that VY saved fisher's job last year, and I think VY is the bigger man here. If Adams doesn't can Fisher after this latest wasted season, Vince needs to go somewhere where he can be appreciated. Maybe somewhere sunny...

It’s clear that the Miami Dolphins have problems at quarterback and Chad Henne is not working out, but could Vince Young land under center for the Miami Dolphins next season? The Miami Herald speculates as much this morning.

Winners & Losers - Who would You Fire?

This guy:
Overall Win-Loss: 141-116 (%55)
Playoff: 5-6
1 Conf. championship
6 winning seasons out of 17

Or this guy?
Overall Win-Loss: 26-13 (67%)
Playoffs: 0-1
5 winning seasons (games started) out of 5.
QB rating improvement from 64.5 to 98.6 in last 3 seasons.

Looking at these numbers, who has more upside? Who's getting the job done?

Thanks Al!

Al Giordano offers a nice reality-check on the doom and gloom that we are being barraged with:

But headlines that merely tell the truth – “Normal Election Forecast for November” – don’t sell newspapers, or keep you glued to the TV or Internet screen. And beyond the transparent effort by so many in the media to grab your attention with apocalyptic warnings for Democrats or triumphant teasers for Republicans, there is another level of duplicity going on behind the curtain.

If you look at the comments section under Blumenthal’s “just the facts, M’am” essay you can see the partisans on each side cheering or attacking each pollster based on whether the results fit what the commenter wants to happen. But that’s the rank-and-file party activist or sympathizer position. Up above, in the war rooms of the political consultants and party operatives, Democrats are actually stoking the reports of their own demise under the belief that they will scare their grassroots troops into action.

You really should read the whole thing, and then put "The Field" on your RSS reader or favorites list.

Spot On

The linked article is a must-read. I couldn't agree more.

My experience with the Obama Administration has been that they play a low-key game and get things done. This frustrates progressives who want the Obama Administration to be about carthartic acts repudiating conservative world views first, and results second. In the media there will always be the contrarian need to judge any speech not by whether it achieved the Administration’s goals, but rather by a perceived lack or surfeit of emotion/policy details/ponies.

David Frum, The Honest Conservative

Remember Jim DeMint?

Here's what American Enterprise Institute fellow David Frum has to say about that:

Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.

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So far, I think a lot of conservatives will agree with me. Now comes the hard lesson:

A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.

At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.

Only, the hardliners overlooked a few key facts: Obama was elected with 53% of the vote, not Clinton’s 42%. The liberal block within the Democratic congressional caucus is bigger and stronger than it was in 1993-94. And of course the Democrats also remember their history, and also remember the consequences of their 1994 failure.

This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none.
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There were leaders who knew better, who would have liked to deal. But they were trapped. Conservative talkers on Fox and talk radio had whipped the Republican voting base into such a frenzy that deal-making was rendered impossible. How do you negotiate with somebody who wants to murder your grandmother? Or – more exactly – with somebody whom your voters have been persuaded to believe wants to murder their grandmother?

Must Read

...This.

“He wasn’t a jihadi, but I told him he should have been arrested for stupidity,” the CIA agent told New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer in an interview. Ms. Mayer’s book The Dark Side goes on to explain that two National Security Council staffers — senior terrorism expert General John Gordon, and legal adviser John Bellinger — sought to brief President Bush about reports that an innocent man was being held at Guantanamo Bay. Before they could reach President Bush, however, they were intercepted by David Addington, legal counsel to vice-president Dick Cheney, who said, “No, there will be no review. The President has determined that they are ALL enemy combatants. We are not going to revisit it!”

It is worth revisiting Mr. al-Rabiah’s case as America debates whether lawyers who did pro-bono work for Gitmo detainees desserve praise or scorn. Liz Cheney, William Kristol, Marc Thiessen, and Andrew McCarthy are among the folks who argue the latter — all either helped air or defended a television advertisement calling the subset of these lawyers who now work in the Obama Justice Department “the al Qaeda seven.” In the New York Times, Mr. McCarthy wrote, “Only criminal defendants are entitled to counsel, and those who represent them do indeed perform a constitutionally valuable function. It has never been the law, however, that war prisoners are entitled to counsel to challenge their detention as enemy combatants.” He goes on to assert that “the lawyers chose to offer themselves, gratis, to our enemies for litigation the Constitution does not require. They did so knowing that this litigation would be harmful to the war effort.”

Orin Kerr, a law professor who blogs at The Volokh Conspiracy, has published a devastating take-down of Mr. McCarthy’s argument. It is worth reading in full. I’ll excerpt just one sentence: “McCarthy strangely overlooks the basic fact that much of the litigation for the Guantanamo detainees concerns whether they are in fact the enemy.” Even as an abstract argument, Professor Kerr’s point is persuasive, as are all parts of his rebuttal. But the wrongheadedness of the Cheney/Kristol/Thiessen/McCarthy view can be fully appreciated only by looking at how it played out in a particular case.

Read the whole thing...

Must Read DKos FDA Diary

Quick link to great diary about how our President is reviving the FDA. Maybe now we can eat spinach or jalepenos or take medicine without seeing it on a lawyer's tv ad 6 months later...

In February 2009, he also called for a full review of all departments at the FDA.

In March, he appointed two esteemed professionals--Margaret Hamburg and Joshua Sharfstein--as commissioner and principal deputy commisioner of the FDA and announced establishment of the Food Safety Working Group to meet regularly with cabinet officials and help advise the president on food safety issues and needs of the department.

These were clearly steps in the right direction. Since taking over, Hamburg's FDA has conducted several raids of manufacturers of items like soaps and food products, closing the companies down for poor sanitation and, in some cases, prosecuting owners. A maker of tuna salad sandwiches was closed after:

Recent FDA inspections found evidence of widespread and active rodent and insect infestation, filthy conditions, and poor employee practices, such as allowing food-processing utensils to lie on the floor near live insects.