It’s impossible to promote single payer and defend Obamacare at the same time.

It’s impossible to have a credible unity tour between Bernie Sanders and Tom Perez.

It’s impossible to call yourself a populist and defend a law written by insurance industry lobbyists.

Let’s start with the so-called unity tour just completed with Sanders and Perez.

Crowds came out to see single payer Sanders and boo corporate Obamacare Perez.

On MSNBC last week, Chris Hayes had Perez and Sanders on his show.

Hayes asked Perez whether he supported single payer. Perez refused to answer. Sanders grimaced.

Of course Perez doesn’t support single payer.

Yet single payer is the driving force at all the town hall meetings.

Single payer is what fueled Bernie’s insurgent campaign last year.

And single payer won’t become law without a new political movement that will wash away Perez and the corporate Democrats.

The corporate Democratic leadership pushed Sanders into a CNN town hall debate with Senator Ted Cruz earlier this year.

They asked Sanders to defend Obamacare.

Sanders proved it was impossible.

Case in point.

A hair salon owner from Texas confronted Sanders with her dilemma.

LaRonda owns five hair salons in Texas and employs just under 50 workers. She keeps it under 50 because under Obamacare, more than 50 workers means that she has to buy them health insurance.

“How do I employ more Americans without either raising the prices to my customers or lowering wages to my employees?” LaRonda asked Sanders.

Sanders could have answered – “Well LaRonda, if we had my preferred plan – single payer – you wouldn’t have to bankrupt yourself by buying defective high priced health insurance from for profit health insurance companies. Under my plan, every American at birth gets a birth certificate and a Medicare card. They would be covered and you can hire employees to your heart’s content.”