Just a note that next week will be the last Quote the Ravin'. I've done it diligently for a year, and I don't regret it. But it never seemed to catch on on DK. I got some nice comments from Meteor Blades and Bill in Portland Maine, and a few of you who come back every week. And I appreciate it.
It's a lot of work. I probably spend 6-10 hours a week compiling and formatting this thing. And maybe one person in ten or twenty bothers to even recommend it. I could repost a Jon Stewart clip, spend three minutes on it and it would generate hundreds of recs and comments.
So, I'm moving on to blogging somewhere else. I've overcome blogophobia, and I'm confident I won't lose interest in maintaining something that's my own. BUT, perhaps you'd like to take over this monster. If you'd like to inherit this quotes of the week blog, just shoot me a message. I'll give you some tips where to get some content, sign over the title, and you can drive it however you wish.
See ya next week.
If Eric Cantor decides everything, I fear we'll be in default.
—Sen. Chuck Schumer (D, NY).
I'd recommend to the Republican Party and the Tea Party just get about to balancing the budget, instead of talking about a Balanced Budget Amendment.
—Sen. Mary Landrieu (D, LA).
This may bring my presidency down, but I will not yield on this.
—President Barack Obama.
IDEA: Cut off power to all tanning beds until there's a budget deal.
—Andy Borowitz.
And I can’t help but be a little bit cynical here. Because we find out the president has a big birthday bash scheduled for August the 3rd, celebrities flying in from all over. And lo and behold, August 2nd is the deadline for getting something done so he can have this massive, the biggest fundraising dinner in history for a birthday celebration. Isn’t that amazing? The timing of this?
—Rep Louie Gohmert (R, TX).
Yes, the timing of your conspiracies are always amazing.
I have led men in combat, but my last job was a temporary cashier position in the women's department at Nordstrom's.
—An anonymous unemployed Iraq veteran.
Are they getting the same kind of attention for hacking that took place less than a year ago that News Corp is getting today?
—Robert Dilenschneider on Fox and Friends about the News of the World scandal.
They're both victims of being in the same sentence as the word "hack".
—Stephen Colbert.
That wasn’t a statement I made. Let’s get it right. I was asked if I would be comfortable, and my response was I would not be comfortable with a terrorist in my cabinet.
—Herman Cain.
Of course, that's not what he said.
I read a social services report yesterday that says I smoke crack. None of it's true. I don't smoke rocks, and that's the truth.
—David Landerleest (R, WI), the candidate running in Sen. Dave Hansen's (D, WI) recall election.
Good to see the clarification.
Just got word US Attorney slammed the door shut on CREW's baseless complaint against me. Time now for DOJ to investigate CREW.
—Christine O'Donnell.
She's not a witch, but she's all for a witch hunt.
A troop-rallying campaign infomercial as imagined by Michael Bay: hero-worshipping, crescendo-edited at a dizzying pace, thunderously repetitive and its own worst enemy as a two-hour, talking-points briefing.
—The LA Times Robert Abeles on The Undefeated.
This Sarah Palin hosanna is done in by the simple fact that its director needs to go back to film school.
—Robert Levin, in The Atlantic.
She thought she would try to find one that was absolutely neutral: telling your kids not to eat a bucket of lard for breakfast.
—Bill Maher on the controversy over Michelle Obama's "Move it" cause.
I’m getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I’ve been called to do. This is what America needs.
—Rick Perry.
I'm wondering if this was said while wearing a snuggie.
What should we do about the debt crisis?
—Sen. Rand Paul (R, KY), asked what his one question to Britney Spears would be if he could ask it.
But I do know it is an issue with a lot of Southerners.
—Herman Cain on Mitt Romney's Mormonism.
I don’t think carbon is a pollutant in the sense of harming our bodies.
—Mitt Romney.
The Supreme Court ruled it was a pollutant in 2007.
Yes. They have a right to do that. That’s not discriminating based upon religion.
—Herman Cain on banning mosques.
It happens that our legal system recognizes divorce, but the Catholic Church does not. This, by Cain’s logic, must constitute an attempt to impose “Vatican law” on an unsuspecting nation.
—Eugene Robinson.
It's so hot that even Michele Bachmann believes in global warming.
—David Letterman.
Spain’s running of the bulls is not nearly as scary as the U.S. event, the running of Sarah Palin.
—Jimmy Fallon.
I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.
—Bill Maher.
Quote the Ravin', a weekly roundup of quotes from the internets, comes out every Tuesday afternoon.