* Obama has threatened to veto the Republicans’ “cut, cap, and balance” bill. He said, “I’m okay with balancing the budget and I’d like to avoid default, which could destroy our nation, but not if that involves any spending cuts. If anything, I want to spend even more money, and I can’t comprehend any reason I shouldn’t get what I want. So there’s nothing I will let be cut… except maybe some defense. Like I’ve been seeing this bill lately for drone strikes in Libya; anyone even have any idea what that’s about? If we cut that, though, then I’d just want the money in more social programs. People love those… and if they don’t, I’m sure they will eventually if I force them on people. Now excuse me, I have tee time.”

I’m starting to think we’re not going to get anything meaningful done with the budget while Obama is president.

* Harry Reid says the Senate will meet every day until the debt limit increase is passed. That’s Harry Reid, always doddering to action to get things done. Of course, they could have gotten this budget mess all sorted out way back when Democrats had majorities in the House and Senate, but now Reid is finally determined to get it done. What did America do to deserve such dynamic leadership? I’m guessing slavery.

* Wonder where all that tax money Obama and the Democrats won’t cut is going? Well, $900,000 is going for studying the size of gay men’s penises. You ask a regular person, “Hey, want to spot me $900,000 to study gay men’s penis sizes?” and the person would say, “That’s a huge sum of money and an idiotic thing to spend it on!” You ask the government, which only spends other people’s money, though, and they’re like, “Wow! What a bargain on finding out the sizes of gay men’s penises!” I’m starting to wonder if this system of giving nitwits in DC billions of our dollars to spend and the ability to confiscate more of our money when they feel like it is such a great idea. I can’t put my finger on it, but something about that just doesn’t seem well thought out.

* MSNBC is thinking of adding Al Sharpton to their lineup. I guess MSNBC finally decided to diversify their staff of red-faced white guys like Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz shouting incoherently and add a race-baiting bottom feeder. It really goes with their new slogan: “MSNBC: You’re now dumber for having watched us.”

* Speaking of dumber for having watched MSNBC, Rachel Maddow was trying to scare people on the voter ID law — which is rather hard, because having someone show a valid photo ID before voting just reeks so much of basic common sense — and she claimed that people with concealed carry permits are exempted from the law. A CONCEALED CARRY PERMIT IS A VALID PHOTO ID, IDIOT! People always talk about guns’ ability to kill, but their biggest power seems to be to cause certain people’s IQ to drop 60 points by the mere mention of them.

Also, since you can get a free photo ID, who exactly is going to be disenfranchised by this law other than the extremely lazy? And weren’t they already disenfranchised, since voting requires you to get up and do stuff? Is there really any argument against showing your ID to vote other than that you think voter fraud will help your party?

* John Hawkins of Right Wing News says the independent, conservative blogosphere — of which IMAO is a member — is dying. Traffic for IMAO actually peaked way back during the 2004 election. There wasn’t much of an increase for the 2008 election, and it’s been down for a while. Still, I’m hoping for some big things in 2012 (plus it will be IMAO’s tenth blogiversary), but I do wonder if there will be much traffic to keep going after that and I’ll have to join some bigger establishment blog to keep going. BTW, tell everyone to read IMAO — its news roundup is great!

* Wisdom of the Day: “What Obama says: ‘I can fix it!’ What he means: ‘Buy gold!'” –J.P. Freire

* Yesterday, I asked you what could be done to make soccer more interesting, and I really think the answer is nothing. Everything just seems lame when you add soccer to the mix. Like I thought of adding dinosaurs to soccer (the T-Rex has tiny, useless hands, so he seems like a good fit), but then I imagined dinosaurs playing soccer, and now I hate dinosaurs. Still, I said I’d give out HIGH PRAISE and KingJamesTheCapitalist wrote this:

I would make soccer more interesting by tying all the players to metal poles that allow them to hang above the arena just high enough to where their feet don’t touch the ground. Then you inter-space them appropriately for an even mach up put the ball in the middle and get a group of drunk college students to move the poles around so the players can hit the ball into the opposing teams goal.

That does sound kind of fun, so HIGH PRAISE for KingJamesTheCapitalist.

KingJamesTheCapitalist, we all aspire to have your wisdom.