One of the mantras of the Kerry campaign is that George Bush is unwilling to admit to his mistakes, and on this point the Johns are clearly right. My hope is that if in tonight?s debate the President is asked to admit to three mistakes that he has made during his presidency that he will finally fess up.
1. He needs to acknowledge that his tax cut was too small especially for those earning over $200,000 a year. He should have the guts to admit that had he given these intense investors, job creators, entrepreneurs, and wealth creators a bigger tax cut, the recovery would have come along much more quickly and everyone would be better off.
2. He needs to come clean on his mistake not to push harder for his judicial nominees in the face of people like John Edwards and Hillary Clinton on the senate judiciary committee.
3. He needs to acknowledge that getting in bed with Ted Kennedy to engineer the federal takeover of education known as No Child Left Behind was a terrible idea and that if he could he would take it all back.
