Holy Joe and the health bill

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You know, for a while it was kind of amusing to make fun of Senator Sanctimony. He'd clearly aligned himself with the party in power, and with the Democrats so hopelessy emasculated, he wasn't doing much harm.

Now, however, the game has changed drastically, as Josh Marshall explains:

Lieberman just doesn't seem to be negotiating in good faith. He keeps pulling his caucus to some new compromise, waiting a few days and then saying he can't agree to that either.

It seems to me, though, that Holy Joe's position is that he doesn't want any kind of health care bill and so just keeps moving the goal posts.

That is, he'll vote for nothing that's proposed, and so the Democrats might as well rush Olympia Snowe for her vote, since they can't count on Connecticut's junior senator for any support.

UPDATE — Matt Yglesias pretty much says the same thing.