Rep. Reid Ribble, R-Sherwood, took a step in that direction earlier this month when he announced he would not sign anymore pledges, such as the anti-tax document that painted him and his GOP colleagues into a corner earlier this year.
This is clearly an improvement over signing absolutist pledges last election cycle. Of course, it would have been clearly way, way better if he hadn't signed such pledges in the first place. Those surveys aren't hard to navigate but you always have to go in to the organization's interview room after make sure they know that you don't believe in absolutes.
I'm a firm (but not absolute!) believer in putting your ideals and reasonable goals out there during the campaign but picking over-simple policies to get there sets you up for failure. Taxes should have been raised to pay for these wars, Medicare taxes should have been raised to pay for the Medicare expansion, there should at least be a plan to pay for things when programs or policy will obviously cost money.
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