Posted on 11/18/2015 6:01:38 PM PST by markomalley
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) objected to legislation that would prevent taxpayer funding from going towards oil paintings for members of government such as Harry Reid, Wednesday.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) attempted to pass his bill to ban funding for official portraits of the president, vice president, cabinet members, and Congress by unanimous consent. Reid, who is retiring after his term ends in 2016, objected, preventing the legislation’s passage. The Senate honors its former majority and minority leaders with portraits after they leave office.
“I have no clue why the esteemed Democratic Leader objects,” Cassidy said. “All I can say is it is an incredible insensitivity to working families. There is a family out there right now struggling, not sure if they can pay their rent or their mortgage. They’re going to los their car. Their children will go to school in old clothes and maybe hungry because the amount of money they earn per year is not enough.”
Cassidy’s office said official portraits can cost taxpayers as much as $40,000 per painting, which equals the average salary of his constituents in Louisiana.
The Eliminating Government-funded Oil-painting Act—or, the “EGO Act”—was included in the bipartisan omnibus bill in 2014, temporarily banning funding.
In recent years, taxpayers have footed the bill for a $38,350 portrait of former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, $22,500 for a likeness of Commerce Secretary John Bryson, and $41,200 for Air Force Secretary Michael Donnelly’s painting.
The Obama administration spent $400,000 on oil portraits between 2012 and 2013, according to ABC News.
Reid’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.
Take a picture of the back end of any horse for much less and go with it.
I would approve of the painting if they show him dressed as a pirate with a eye patch.
That way when we see it hanging in the hall when we do a tour we can spit at it and they would just have to wash it off rather than replace it.
But your idea would work too.
lol
Why is one Senator allowed to dictate the legislative agenda of the entire Senate?
If this is the rule, THEN WHY DIDN”T ONE GOP SENATOR OBJECT TO OBAMACARE AND SHUT IT DOWN?!!!!
Yes, I am shouting!
Why doesn’t McConnell say to Reid “We won, sit down and shut up?”
I am so freaking tired of this stupidity!
I think I saw a sketch of the Reid painting...had a Nevada-Las Vegas feel to it, Reid dressed as a one-eyed Jack hanging upside down in a giant test tube of urine, stoppered with a huge elephant dung plug, leaning against a bus station urinal. All lit up with a spot light, sort of metaphoric reference to his home town....The frame had flashing lights like a slot machine spelling out JACKPOTTY!
A 30 cent mug shot does the same thing.
I wish the artist Ivan Albright was alive to do Harry Reid’s portrait:
From WIKI:
“In 1943 he was commissioned to create the title painting for Albert Lewin’s film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. His realistic, but exaggerated, depictions of DECAY and CORRUPTION made him very well suited to undertake such a project. His brother [Malvin] was chosen to do the original uncorrupted painting of Gray, but the painting used on the film was from Henrique Medina. Ivan made the changes in the painting during the film. This original painting currently resides in the Art Institute of Chicago.”
Dingy is an exempt one-percenter. Have him pay for it himself.
When I read the thread title the first thing that popped into my head was The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Lol! In case anyone doesn't know...
"Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition,[1] which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects, without controlling content."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
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"The Holy Virgin Mary, a 1996 collage by Chris Ofili, an award-winning British artist, which incorporates elephant feces."
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/991008/madonna.html
Thus says Cyclops!
Any of them will work. Why does he need ANOTHER portrait?
“When I read the thread title the first thing that popped into my head was The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
Great minds think alike, lol.
Yikes. That just might prevent somebody from running for office on a democrat ticket.
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