Holy Joe and the Teabaggers

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From Josh Marshall:

In the course of a few hours [Tuesday], Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) sent the tea party crowd on the same emotional rollercoaster progressives have been riding with the senator since the start of the health care reform debate this year.

So here's the deal: The progressives hate him; the Teabaggers have come to the realization that the junior senator is "just up here for himself." So just whom does he represent? With the AARP in favor of HCR, he can't count on the country's most dependable voters.

I don't get it.

I especially don't get it because Senator Sanctimony has started to talk about 2012 where it seems likely that the then septuagenarian will have to run as an Independent because he's alienated everyone else.