Poor Tommy, signed outdated partisan straightjacketed “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.” Guess we know whose loyalty Thompson Favors…big money.

The no tax pledge looked like it was on its last legs due to the complicated solutions needed to pull the country out of the jobs loll. All options on the table Tommy? Guess not.

WSJ: Republican Tommy Thompson on Tuesday filed his statement of candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat … told supporters that he has signed a "taxpayer protection pledge" from Grover Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform. That pledge commits him to opposing net tax increases. "I gladly signed the pledge because I have always fought to get the long arm of government out of the pockets of working families," Thompson said.

Thompson’s pledge has nothing to do with Wisconsin jobs and voters, and everything to do with an egotistical hardliner offering a thoughtless escape from real responsibility.



UPDATE: I just found this at TPM, that supports my point: 

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) unleashed a verbal fusillade on Anti-Tax Guru Grover Norquist Tuesday, calling him out as the main political force behind Washington gridlock.

Wolf took the House floor to lambaste Norquist's pledge, a promise not to raise taxes that all but six Republicans in Congress have signed, accusing him of using it to advance other pet issues that most Republicans -- if not most voters -- do not support.