When will they admit they're wrong?

There comes a time when you have to admit you're wrong.  Whether it's because you said, "I turned the dishwasher on," only to find that all your dishes are still dirty and the soap is sitting in its holder unused.  Or, because you believe that business should operate without any oversight or regulations, only to find that they end up buying credit default swaps on bad CDOs or not keeping their mines up to safe standards.  Sometimes you have to admit you're wrong.

The news these days is filled with items that should have people (and by people I mean politicians as well) reevaluating their stances on certain issues.  It should, but it doesn't.  An American citizen is captured for attempting to set off a bomb in Times Square and he was caught with good police work, not torture or by dropping bombs.  However, the issue on the right is whether he should have been Mirandized.  These are lawmakers, they do understand that if you don't make someone aware of their Miranda rights, any information they give us might not be admissible in court.  Meaning when you tried to convict him of a crime, he might go free. (I won't even mention the Lieberman bill.)

Then there's the Drill Baby, Drill crowd.  We have a major ecological disaster in the gulf, and they don't admit that maybe 1. we need to make sure we regulate the oil industry, 2. maybe oil isn't the easiest thing to drill from the ground, and 3. it can cause a big mess when something goes wrong.  At least Arnold Schwarzenegger said it made no sense to drill off of California after the spill, but Palin couldn't let it go.

And, shouldn't this spill lead us to some environmental legislation.  Well, we have this bill that Sen. Kerry and others are going to pass.  Of course, it probably won't do anything really substantial, but it is a start.  And maybe thanks to the oil spill there won't be an amendment for more oil wells off of the coast.

And what about Protecting the Constitution, Arizona passes a law that allows police to violate your 4th amendment rights, and it was passed by a Republican majority and the tea parties aren't marching on Phoenix!

I would just like every once in a while for people to say, "you know maybe I should re-think some of my proposals and stances."  Instead it seems that everyone is sticking to their ideological guns.  Intellectual honesty is all I want, but maybe that's too much to ask.