Bumper sticker of the day: “Slap the Stupid People.” This I like. And I see a way to monetize the concept, Pentagon-style, by selling equipment to both sides.

For the slappers, surgical gloves, to protect them from whatever cooties these slobbering nitwits are carrying. These are to be worn under official DopeSlap™ gauntlets, in plebian chain mail or aristocratic articulated plate, to prevent damage to the hand.

For the slappees, catchers’ masks and wooden teeth, just like the Father of Our Country had before this uppity nigra showed up from Kenya with his socialized medicine.

Can you say “win-win?” Sure. I knew you could.

We already know the wingnuts hate the idea of government-run health care, no matter how many of them are taking advantage of it. And now that Adolf Saddam Hussein Obama has hinted that he might be OK with a non-profit health care cooperative, well, they hate that, too.

As Steve Benen notes at Political Animal, “for months, Republicans said a public option would mark the fall of civilization, but a co-op alternative is entirely palatable. But in light of signals that a genuine public option is in trouble, the Republican Party that found co-ops reasonable has decided to change course. Now, they’re against co-ops, too.”

He continues: “(N)o matter what Democrats propose, Republicans are going to reject it, even if they’ve already signaled support for the same idea. Consistency and honesty are irrelevant — the goal is to defeat health care reform, no matter what’s in the bill.”

Speaking of what’s in the bill, Bob Herbert at The New York Times says we’re headed “toward changes that will result in a lot more people getting covered, but that will not control exploding health care costs and will leave industry leaders feeling like they’ve hit the jackpot.”

Without an “efficient, nonprofit, government-run insurance plan,” and with a requirement that most Americans buy health coverage, writes Herbert, “Millions of young and healthy individuals will be herded into the industry’s welcoming arms. This is the population the insurers drool over.”

He continues: “If the oldest and sickest are on Medicare, and the poorest are on Medicaid, and the young and the healthy are required to purchase private insurance without the option of a competing government-run plan — well, that’s reform the insurance companies can believe in.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m not feeling so good.