Posted on 07/22/2013 10:14:16 AM PDT by Nachum
Washington D.C. is big on tradition, and one of those traditions involves official portraits of top government officials. The Defense Department just awarded a $31,200 contract (frame included) to Portraits, Inc. for an official portrait of former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta:
The Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate issued a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) purchase order for the painting and delivery of the official oil portrait for the former Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, as required by the Department of Defense. This portrait shall be executed by an artist experienced in commissions of Presidential Cabinet Level or other Senior/High Ranking Officials. The official portrait shall be suitable for permanent exhibition as part of the Pentagon Collection in the Pentagon, Washington DC.
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See if they will do this with the 4 dead bodies in the background....
Oil?.......It should be in elephant dung...............
This is the guy who stated that they couldn’t send help to the beseiged at Benghazi because they couldn’t predict how such a rescue mission would turn out. I’ll paint a portrait of that traitor, but you won’t like the media I’d use. The letters across his forehead would spell w.i.m.p.
THANK GOODNESS! Our thrifty overlords have the smarts to get the Frame included, thus saving us poor taxpayers from another half a million in spending.
Halleleujah!
Good grief. Frequent Flyer Leon wouldn’t move his family to D.C., so he had to fly home to California for the weekends. Our Secretary of Defense. During a war. Can’t he use his frequent flyer points to pay for someone to paint a portrait of him?
That’s about a months work at $150/hr plus materials. I suppose a cell phone pic printed out at WalMart would be cheaper, but I don’t find that to be excessive for an art commission.
5.56mm
Paint it with “4in1” oil.
With this adminstration, I’m surprised it wasn’t commissioned to be done in crayon....to reflect the infantile attitude it has...
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Maybe it’s being done on velvet. You know how much that art is worth.
This type of ruling elite privilege is not a function which taxpayers should have money extorted from their pay.
If Marxists or the right want a portrait painted then fine pay for it with private funds.
This not a function of the federal government.
Thank goodness! Here I was thinking that getting a professional oil painting of a former Secretary of Defense, as though he's some kind of European aristocrat, was what was excessive and wasteful. But so long as we're immortalizing the people running us into the ground at a fair price, I suppose it's all good.
Meanwhile, there was no flyover allowed at this year’s West Point graduation because of budget concerns? Behold Liberal Political Royalty!
Rules, people....items from The Onion need to be clearly labeled as such...
Every stupid bureaucrat in Washington gets their portrait in oil (I wonder if it’s ever acrylic?) if they are above a certain rank. They kept this up even when a photo, even a 22x30 photo, would be cheaper.
So it’s no surprise that the Secretary Of Defense gets one too, even though he’s not popular. Getting your portrait done should not be determined by mob rule.
This type of ruling elite privilege is not a function which taxpayers should have money extorted from their pay.
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Completely agree.
” Meanwhile, there was no flyover allowed at this year’s West Point graduation because of budget concerns? “
Everything good that we stand for, has been cancelled due to “budget concerns”
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