Which Senator would you rather have on your side in a fight?

Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)?

Or Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut)?

I’ll take Lieberman.

Hands down.

Take the fight over health care reform.

On the one side – Bernie Sanders for the people.

Knows that single payer is the only health care reform that will both control costs and cover everyone.

On the other side – Joseph Lieberman for the insurance industry.

Lieberman is for Aetna.

Sanders is for the thousands of Americans who go bankrupt every year due to medical bills.

For the 50 million uninsured and tens of millions of more underinsured.

For the 45,000 Americans who die every year from lack of health insurance.

But who would you rather have on your side in this fight?

I’ll take Lieberman.

Why?

Because while Sanders goes around the country professing to be for single payer.

While Sanders says he will introduce a single payer bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

While Sanders will give you some hifalutin rhetoric on why single payer is the best for the American people.

He’s just pacifying the masses of Americans who want single payer.

He has no intention of actually getting anything done.

The single payer bill will be shot down in the Senate.

The way Congressman Antony Weiner’s (D-New York) single payer bill will be shot down in the House.

(Weiner’s single payer bill maybe gets 100 votes. By the way, one significant way the Weiner amendment is different from HR 676? It doesn’t cover illegal immigrants. No more – everybody in, nobody out. That’s why it’ll get 100 instead of 80.)

Lieberman on the other hand says he’s going to gum up the works.

He’s going to filibuster any half-baked public option that comes down the pike.

Why?

Because Aetna told him to do it.

Aetna is playing hardball.

Aetna is serious.

And therefore so is Lieberman.

Sanders is going through the motions.

If Sanders were serious, he’d do what Lieberman is doing.

Filibuster Obamacare.

And spend hours upon hours on the floor of the Senate talking about why single payer is the only system that will work.

Why it’s the only system that will save those 45,000 American lives every year.

Why it’s the only system that will save $300 billion to $400 billion a year in administrative waste and profits.

Why we’re the only country in the world that doesn’t have a system of universal health care.

Why we’re the only country in the world that allows insurance corporations to profit by selling basic health insurance.

Why Obama’s public option is a fraud.

Because it will apply only to ten percent of Americans.

No one who is currently insured will be allowed to buy in.

Why Obama went from being for single payer in 2003 to being against this year.

Sanders could talk about the dirty deal that Obama cut with the health insurance and pharmaceutical industry to get their support for Obamacare.

Instead, Sanders and Weiner and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) are into pacification.

Pacify the single payer activists.

So that they stand on the sidelines.

While Obamacare gets pushed through the Congress.

Memo to Sanders and Weiner:

Stop Pacifying.

Start leading.

Vote no on Obamacare.

Start from scratch.

Onward to single payer.